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Below is a family biography included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co.   These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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RICHARD JONES, machinist, Verona, was born in Llanelly, Curmarthanshire, Wales, Feb. 12, 1846, and is the eldest child of Thomas and Ann Jones. His parents now reside in Pittsburgh, where Mr. Jones is a carpenter-contractor. He came to America in 1868. His youngest son is in Detroit, and the others reside in and about Pittsburgh. Following are their names: Catharine (Evans), Tabitha (Robbin), Thomas, John J., Isaac, David and Hannah. Thomas Sr.’s father, Isaac, was a carpenter, and lived to the age of ninety-eight. His father, Thomas, farmer and poet, was a freeholder, and lived to be ninety. When Richard Jones was fifteen he went into a machine-shop, and has been an iron-worker ever since. From1868 to 1883 he was employed in Allegheny and Pittsburgh, and came to Verona in the latter year, and built his present residence. He is employed in the Allegheny Valley shops. The family are associated with the Baptist Church in Pittsburgh; Mr. Jones is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a steadfast republican. In 1873 he married Sarah Ann Williams, born in Bryn Mawr, Wales, and following are the names of their children: Richard Oliver, Cora Mabel, Alberta and Irenaeus. Elmer, Oscar and William Howard are deceased.

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This family biography is one of 2,156 biographies included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co.

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