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Griffith Prichard Jones

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Birth	:	21 Aug 1847 Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
Death	:	13 Mar 1935 Emporia, Lyon County, Kansas, USA
Burial	:	Maplewood Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Emporia, Lyon County, USA
Coordinate	:	38.4202995, -96.2055969
Plot	:	Blk 16, Lot 43, Space 6.
Description	:	Jones, Walter A.--Son of Griffith P. Jones gives excellent history of Griffith Jones Family. The following data is extracted from A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans. Walter A. Jones is judge of the Probate Court of Lyon County and represents one of the very first families in Lyon County and in that section of Kansas. Both he and other members of the family have accounted well for themselves in the business, farming, professional and civic life of the county. His father, Griffith P. Jones, formerly a merchant at Emporia, is one of the most extensive raisers and breeders of... Read More	Jones, Walter A.--Son of Griffith P. Jones gives excellent history of Griffith Jones Family. The following data is extracted from A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans. Walter A. Jones is judge of the Probate Court of Lyon County and represents one of the very first families in Lyon County and in that section of Kansas. Both he and other members of the family have accounted well for themselves in the business, farming, professional and civic life of the county. His father, Griffith P. Jones, formerly a merchant at Emporia, is one of the most extensive raisers and breeders of Hereford cattle in Lyon County. He was born in Carnarvonshire, Wales, in 1847, a son of John and Jeanette Jones. John Jones was born in Carnarvonshire, Wales, and spent his life there on the farm which his ancestors had occupied for fully three centuries before him. After his death his widow Jeanette Jones, in 1852, brought her family to America, landing in New York City and afterwards going to Lewis County, New York. She married for her second husband Richard Humphries, and in 1880 they came to Emporia, where she died. Griffith P. Jones, who was five years old when brought to America, lived in New York State during his youth and in 1868 at the age of twenty-one arrived in Lyon County, Kansas. Emporia was then a village, and for four years he was employed by the firm of Bancroft & McCarty, merchants. He then established the G. P. Jones Clothing Store which is still in operation at 508 Commercial Street, being now owned by his nephew, George R. Jones. After continuing in the clothing business until 1888, he sold out his mercantile enterprise and removed to the Hereford Ranch which he still owned and which comprises 1,500 acres of land in Lyon County. The Hereford Ranch had become widely known as the home of blooded Hereford cattle. It is a matter of interest that a brother of Griffith Jones, John C. Jones, was a schoolmate of Lloyd George, the noted English statesman. Griffith Jones is a republican, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is a charter member of Union Lodge No. 15, Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Emporia. He married Abbie C. Allen, who was born at Turin, Lewis County, New York, in 1856. Their children are: A. C. Jones, who lives on a dairy farm two miles north of Emporia; Edward G., who operates his ranch of 400 acres near the Hereford Ranch in the southwestern part of Lyon County; Walter A.; and Lucina, at home with her parents. Walter A. Jones was born at Emporia August 22, 1886, and when an infant removed with his parents to the Hereford Ranch. He gained his first education in the public schools of Lyon County, and also pursued two years of study in the State Normal School at Emporia. Later he was a student four years at Baker University, where he specialized a part of the time in the fine arts. This was followed by three years in the law department of Washburn College at Topeka, where he was graduated LL. B. with the class of 1911. After one year of preliminary practice in Topeka and one year spent in New Mexico, he returned to Emporia and at the time of his election as probate judge in November, 1916, had already succeeded in building up a profitable civil and criminal practice. His offices are in the Jones Building on Commercial Street. Mr. Jones is unmarried. He is a republican, a member of the Second Presbyterian Church, is active in the Lyon County Bar Association and the Emporia Commercial Club and fraternally is affiliated with Emporia Lodge No. 12, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Emporia Chapter No. 12, Royal Arch Masons, Emporia Lodge No. 749 of the Maccabees; Emporia Lodge No. 184 of the Ancient Order of United Workmen; and Emporia Lodge No. 633 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

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Griffith Prichard Jones's memorial is located at: Maplewood Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Emporia, Lyon County, USA.
When did Griffith Prichard Jones death?
Griffith Prichard Jones death on 13 Mar 1935 in Emporia, Lyon County, Kansas, USA
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Latitude: 38.4202995
Longitude: -96.2055969

Family Members:

Parent

Jannette Jones Humphreys

(1821 - 1896)

Spouse

Abigail Cynthia “Abbie” Allen Jones

(1857 - 1929)

Siblings

John Cornelius Jones

(1845 - 1912)

Children

Edward Griffith Jones

(1882 - 1977)

Walter Allen Jones

(1886 - 1971)

Lucina Jones

(1889 - 1989)

Robert Carroll Jones

(1892 - 1894)

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Coordinate: 38.4084053, -96.1796799

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7. Wilhite Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.3830500, -96.1240900

8. Camp Alexander Grounds
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Coordinate: 38.4177210, -96.1072080

9. Fowler Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.3897018, -96.1091995

10. Gunkel Burial Ground
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Coordinate: 38.3646600, -96.1138300

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Coordinate: 38.3804207, -96.3178024

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Coordinate: 38.5154686, -96.2420425

13. Forest Hill Cemetery
Emporia, Lyon County, USA
Coordinate: 38.4124000, -96.0604900

14. Badger Creek Cemetery
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Coordinate: 38.4049988, -96.0582962

15. Grandview Cemetery
Plymouth, Lyon County, USA
Coordinate: 38.3838997, -96.3542023

16. Rosean Cemetery
Emporia, Lyon County, USA
Coordinate: 38.5344009, -96.1464005

17. Old Quaker Cemetery
Toledo, Chase County, USA
Coordinate: 38.4208100, -96.3693200

18. Union Cemetery
Emporia, Lyon County, USA
Coordinate: 38.4375000, -96.0425034

19. Fruitland Cemetery
Americus, Lyon County, USA
Coordinate: 38.5078011, -96.3308029

20. Hillside Cemetery
Toledo, Chase County, USA
Coordinate: 38.4305992, -96.3741989

21. Chicago Mound Cemetery
Neosho Rapids, Lyon County, USA
Coordinate: 38.3478012, -96.0610962

22. Frost Cemetery
Americus, Lyon County, USA
Coordinate: 38.5573900, -96.2022300

23. Stark Cemetery
Olpe, Lyon County, USA
Coordinate: 38.2789600, -96.2446300

24. Saint Joseph Cemetery
Olpe, Lyon County, USA
Coordinate: 38.2667007, -96.1628036