MR. GRIFFITH ELLIS JONES, HEIDELBERG, LEHIGH COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
Father in law of Mr. William Broadhead Williams 1834-1913, (born Anglesey).Griffith Jones was born in Caernarvonshire, North Wales, and emigrated to the United States in 1845, and he was the first man to make slate at Slatington, Pennsylvania, where he was a pioneer in that occupation. He went alone but a year later his wife and four children followed him, accompanied by a number of their fellow countrymen, all settled at Slatington.
Amongst them were : Morris Williams and wife; Owen Jones, wife and children; John Jones, single; Griffith Jones, wife and ten children (Ellis, Evan, Mary, John, Mary, Ellis, Evan, Griffith, Margaret and Michael. Five of these children died.