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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 […]

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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 […]

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Nephi James Bates was born to Mary Ann Jones Jacaway and James Bates.  Nephi’s mother was a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints and was living in the city of New Orleans at the time of James’ birth.  She had children from her first marriage to Fields Jacaway, who had died an […]