Margaret Jenkins Jones 1795-1870
2010
Direct ancestor Margaret Jenkins Jones was born in Tennessee to John Jenkins and Ann Stevens. She was the oldest of eight children born to her parents. In about 1816 she married Richard Jones. To them were born eleven children. The oldest, Mary Ann Jones Jacaway Bates Davies is our direct ancestor. Our ancestral line comes through the son of Mary Ann Jones and James Bates, who is Nephi James Bates. When Margaret was an adult, she was remembered in her father’s Will. She received five shillings. As was the custom at the time, most of the assets were Willed to the male heirs.
Margaret and her family her the message of the missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and were converted and baptized. Their migrations took them to the city of Nauvoo, Illinois where records show that Margaret’s husband Richard bought and sold property. The family settled in Upper Alton, Illinois which was at the time a busy early Mormon settlement where many were outfitted for their trek west. While some of the children of Margaret and Richard Jones finished the migration to Utah, some stayed behind in the area of Upper Alton where they settled. Direct ancestor Mary Ann Jones Jacaway Bates Davies was among those who made the trek to Utah. Margaret lived with her daughter Hannah Bush Jones Denham at the time of her death which was just a few months after the census of 1870. She died as a result of a house fire and was buried in the local cemetery with her husband. Direct ancestor Nephi James Bates 1848-1921 was Margaret’s grandson.
The migration of Margaret Jenkins Jones
Tennessee to Illinois