REV. DAVID FOULK JONES, LESUEUR, MINNESOTA.
Born October 21st, 1825. His parents were Richard and Sarah Jones, Llanbedr, Merionethshire, Wales.His mother was a sister to the eminent preachers, the Rev’s. Foulk Kvans, Mach 3 mlleth, and Robert Evans, Llanuwchlyn, near Bala, and daug-hter of Rev. Evan Foulk, Llanuwchlyn. Mr. Jones has two brothers who are ministers in the Calvinistic Methodist church, viz: the Rev. Evan F. Jones, of Gian Conway, North Wales, and the Rev. R. F. Jones, of Oshkosh, Wis. When Mr. Jones was a child of eight years he removed with his parents to Trefriw.
When a young man he learned the blacksmith trade atCarnedda and Llangernyw; and at the last named place he united with the Wesleyan church. From Trefriw he emigrated to America in 1849.
Shortly before leaving his native country he was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Hughes, who now in her widowhood resides in the city of Mankato. He lived at Holland Patent, N. Y., and at Utica for about fifteen years and then removed to Cambria, Wis., and again from there to Bangor, near La Crosse. For a short time he resided at Big Creek and at Cataract, Wis., engaged in farming.
He was chosen deacon of the Utica, (N. Y.) church, and served in that capacity faithfully until called by his Master to a higher office, that of the ministry, at Bangor, Wis., in 1868. He was ordained to the full work of the ministry by the Wisconsin Synod in 1876. In 1879 he received and accepted a call to become pastor of Saron and Elim churches, in Le Sueur county, Minnesota, where he continued to labor with acceptance and success until his death, which occurred April 7, 1884.
His remains were laid at rest near the church where he labored for so many years. He left surviving him six children, viz : Sarah E., now Mrs. O. E. Richards, Mankato; John F., Wm. F., and Richard F., all of Mankato; David F., attorney at law, Sparta, Wis., and Jennie E., now Mrs. John Hughes, of Ottawa, Ee Sueur county, Minnesota.