Mary Nielson Jones

October 3, 1858–February 28, 1933

1 Born at Parowan, Iron County, Utah Territory; daughter of Elsie Rasmussen and Jens Nielson. 2 Married Kumen Jones, 1878; two children. 3 Worked as a midwife. 4 Served as a counselor in the San Juan Stake Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association. 5 Lived at Bluff, San Juan County, Utah, and Blanding, San Juan County. 6 Died at Blanding. 7 (See Document 4.21)

Footnotes

  1. [1] 1860 U.S. census, Parowan, Iron Co., Utah Territory, p. 774, Mary Nelson [sic] in household of Yans and Eli Nelson [ sic ]; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Dec. 2014); from NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1314. “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Nov. 2014); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 2/520 (1933), Mary Nielson Jones. Death certificate erroneously lists her birth year as 1860.
  2. [2] Utah death certificate, file no. 2/520. Kumen Jones, “Writings of Kumen Jones,” typescript, p. 272, ca. 1919–1925, 1930–1938, CHL. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Aug. 2014), Mary Nielson KWJF-BL7 .
  3. [3] Jones, “Writings of Kumen Jones,” 272. “Family Tree,” database, Mary Nielson.
  4. [4] Utah death certificate, file no. 2/520.
  5. [5] “R.S., Y.L.M.I.A. & P.A. Reports,” Woman’s Exponent 17, no. 17 (Feb. 1, 1889): 134–135.
  6. [6] 1880 U.S. census, Bluff City, San Juan Co., Utah Territory, p. 344D, Mary M. [ sic ] Jones; from NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 1337; 1920 U.S. census, Bluff, San Juan Co., Utah, p. 1B, Mary M. [ sic ] Jones; from NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 1864. 1930 U.S. census, Blanding, San Juan Co., Utah, p. 5B, Mary N. Jones; from NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 2417. U.S. census database and images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Dec. 2014).
  7. [7] Utah death certificate, file no. 2/520.