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Illustration of Mary Jones (1897) [1] The story of Mary Jones and her Bible inspired the founding of the British and Foreign Bible Society.Mary Jones (16 December 1784 – 28 December 1864) was a Welsh girl who, at the age of fifteen, walked twenty-six miles barefoot across the countryside to buy a copy of the Welsh Bible from Thomas Charles because she did not have one. [2]
Mary G. Harris Jones (1837 (baptized) – November 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones from 1897 onward, was an Irish-born American labor organizer, former schoolteacher, and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist.
Mary Vaughan Jones (1918–1983), Welsh children's author and schoolteacher; Mary Lloyd Jones (born 1934), Welsh painter and printmaker; Molly Morgan (1762–1835), English convict, landowner, and farmer whose birth name was Mary Jones; Mary Latchford Jones (1877–1968), Anglo-Irish politician; Mary Whitmore Jones (c. 1823–1915), English author
John Jones and his wife Mary Jones were central figures of the abolitionist movement in Chicago, led early struggles to achieve civil rights for Blacks and were involved in local and state politics (including John Jones having been the first African-American to hold elected office in Illinois as a member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners.) [2]
Peter Sewally (fl. 1836–1853) was an American gender-variant prostitute who presented as a woman under names including Mary Jones. [a] According to The Sun, he [b] would wear "a dashing suit of male apparel" in the day, while dressing in feminine attire and wearing a prosthetic vagina at night to solicit sexual services for men and steal their money.
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Star Jones and Ricardo Lugo tied the knot this week on a cruise in the Bahamas in front of 150 guests including Tina Knowles-Lawson and Phaedra Parks. Star Jones is a married woman! Meet her new ...
Angus T. Jones Desiree Stone/Getty Images Angus T. Jones was seen on a rare outing in Los Angeles nearly a decade after he stepped away from the spotlight. Jones, 29, was photographed wearing a ...