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Nathaniel Vary Jones

13 October 1822—15 February 1863

1 Born at Brighton, Monroe County, New York; son of Lucinda Kingsley and Samuel Jones.2 Baptized in Wisconsin Territory, 1842.3 Married Rebecca M. Burton, 1845; participated in plural marriage.4 Served in the Mormon Battalion, 1846–1847.5 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley, 1849.6 Lived at Salt Lake City.7 Served as bishop of the Salt Lake City Fifteenth Ward.8 Died at Salt Lake City.9 (See Document 4.28)

Footnotes

  1. 1 Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register: Dec. 10, 1845, to Feb. 8, 1846, p. 271 (1846), Nathaniel V. Jones, FHL microfilm 962798, item 1, FHL. “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” p. 58 (1863), Nathaniel V. Jones; database and images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); citing series 21866, from Utah Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Utah State Archives and Records Service, Salt Lake City, UT.
  2. 2 Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, p. 271 (1846). “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” database, Nathaniel V. Jones. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Nathaniel Vary Jones KWJC-1PQ . Rebecca B. Jones, biographical sketch of N. V. Jones, n.p., in Nathaniel Vary Jones papers, 1847–1861, fol. 9, Special Collections and Archives, Manuscript Collection, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan, UT; qtd in Guide to the Nathaniel Vary Jones papers, 1847–1861, Special Collections and Archives (https://library.usu.edu/specol, accessed Dec. 2014).
  3. 3 Jones, biographical sketch of N. V. Jones. “Family Tree,” database, Nathaniel Vary Jones.
  4. 4 Ibid.
  5. 5 Frank Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah (Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Co., 1913), 179. Jones, biographical sketch of N. V. Jones.
  6. 6 “Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel,” database, 1847–1868, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel (http://history.lds.org/overlandtravels, accessed Oct. 2014), Nathaniel Vary Jones.
  7. 7 1850 U.S. census, [no city], Great Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, p. 43B, Nathaniel B. Jones; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Oct. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 919.
  8. 8 Jones, biographical sketch of N. V. Jones. Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, 179.
  9. 9 “Utah Death Registers, 1847–1966,” database, Nathaniel V. Jones.