MR. JOHN W. JONES. WILLIAMSTOWN. LEHIGH COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
John W. Jones, a slate operator at Williamstown, Lehigh county, was born in 1840, in Caernarvonshire, Wales, and accompanied his parents to Slatington, Pennsylvania, in 1849. He began working in slate quarries at an early age and continued there for a number of years. He then became a slate operator at Williamstown, near Slatington, and followed this business until he died, June 6, 1893.He was married to Mary A. Williams, a daughter of Henry and Laura (Evans) Williams, and they had seven children: Catharine, married to Henry Andrews; William; John; Laura, married to George Litzenberger; Mollie, married to William H. Neff; Arthur, of Philadelphia; and Hattie, married to John Cummings. They were members of the Baptist church at Slatington.
Mrs. Jones's parents were natives of Wales, and in emigrating to America they landed at Boston, Massechusetts, where she was born; and thence they moved to Slatington, where he became prominently identified with the slate industry.