REV. RICHARD FOULK JONES. CAMBRIA, COLUMBIA, WISCONSIN.
This brother was born in Llanbedr, Dyffryn Ardudwy, Merionethshire, Wales, the twelfth child of Richard and Sarah Jones. The mothers of the Reverends John Jones, Talsarn, Cadwaladr Owen and his grandfather were cousins. His mother was the daughter of the Rev. Foulk Evans - an uncle - his father's brother - of the Rev. Thomas Foulkes. He was reared very religiously with the Calvinistic Methodists. He came to America in 1851 to Remsen, N. Y., where he worked as a carpenter.He was married there to Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh and Ellen Jones, by the Rev. John Hughes, Marcy, father of Rev. D. Hughes, Los Angeles. His brother, Rev. Evan Foulk Jones (who died in Llansantffraid, Glan Conwy, Wales, July 31st, 1896) had started to preach in Pennsylvania; and he too started to preach in Constableville in 1858; and he was ordained in 1867 when he shepherded the Cattaraugus, N. Y., Church.
Another brother of his, David Foulk Jones, was an excellent minister in Wisconsin and Minnesota. And he was also called to shepherd the church of Mankato and vicinity in 1872. He visited Wales in 1881. He shepherded the Hyde Park, Pa., Church from 1882 on for ten years. When there his wife died and she was buried near Mankato. He was called to shepherd Bethesda Church January, 1892. His oldest children are in Minnesota and his youngest daughter, Elizabeth, is the wife of Avery Morgan (see 39, paragraph 2, page 52).
He married Mary, daughter of John Edwards, Bryngoleu, May 4th, 1893, who cares tenderly for him. He came to this community with the "fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of peace." He had the privilege of receiving a large number of disobedient old hearers of the Gospel into church communion. So his coming to us was blessed. He is a man of strong mind, tender affections and much better informed than many suppose. His richness is hidden by the "garment of camel's hair and the leathern girdle." He is a valuable factor in the cause of Christ in every circle of it. It is true the King did without him for a long time, but we believe that his history from now on forever will be that "the Lord hath need of him."