Mary Ann Jones Jacaway Bates Davies 1817-1905
2010
Mary Ann Jones was born in Tennessee, the oldest child of eleven born to her parents Richard Jones and Margaret Jenkins. Her family heard the message of the missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and were baptized. The family migrated through several states and towns with the Saints, settling for a time in and around Nauvoo in Hancock County, Illinois. In 1832, Mary Ann married Fields B. Jacaway who was also a new member of the Church. They married in Clay County, Missouri where Fields later took his own life. Mary Ann and Fields became the parents of five children. Three died in infancy. After the death of her first husband, Mary Ann is said to have married James Bates in New Orleans, Louisana. At the time New Orleans was a port of arrival for new converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints. Mary Ann is said to have been running a boarding house when she met James Bates. Mary Ann and James became the parents of a son, who is the direct ancestor. He was born in 1848 and was named Nephi James Bates. Shortly after Nephi’s birth, the story goes that James left New Orleans for St. Louis to find work. Mary Ann tells the story that she received a letter stating that James had died in a cholera epidemic and had been buried in a common grave with many others. In 1850, Mary Ann Jones Jacaway Bates married an English convert named Thomas Davies. They made the trek across the plains to Utah together. Mary Ann and Thomas became the parents of three children. In 1900, Mary Ann Jones Jacaway Bates Davies traveled by wagon to Canada with her son Thomas Davies. That is where she died and was buried in 1905.
The migration of Mary Ann Jones Jacaway Bates Davies
Tennessee to Illinois to Missouri to Louisiana to Utah to Canada