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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 Elizabeth Jones Parrish (1892–1972) was an African American journalist, typist and survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. Parrish kept a record of the events of the race riot and gathered eyewitness accounts from survivors.
Mary Jones Pilgrim Centre (Mary Jones World)(Welsh: Byd Mary Jones) is a small heritage centre located in Llanycil near Bala, Gwynedd, Wales. [1] Situated on the north shore of Bala Lake , it provides information on Mary Jones , a fifteen-year-old girl from Llanfihangel-y-Pennant .
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.
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
Mary Alice Jones was born in Dallas, Texas in 1898. She was involved in religion from an early age, joining the Methodist Church at age 10. She received her initial college education at the University of Texas before attending Northwestern University, earning a master's degree in religious education, and then receiving a Ph.D. from Yale University.
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"Mary Jones's walk" seems to be concise, accurate, and lacking a lot of the problems that other titles of the form "Mary Jones (characterization)" have.--Atemperman 18:07, 30 July 2009 (UTC) Yes, "Mary Jones and her Bible" is the phrase that immediately springs to mind whenever she's mentioned.