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Given Name: Jane
Surname: Melling

Gender: Female

Birth date: 17 January 1819

Birth place: Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales

Death date: 24 February 1861

Death place: Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Burial date: February 1861

Burial place: Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

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Father: Melling, John
Mother: Jones, Anne

Siblings

Jones, Dan (1810-1862)

Married 03 January 1837 in Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales

Children

Jones,
Jones,
Jones,
Jones, John Madoc
Jones, Emily
Jones, Elizabeth
Jones, Claudia
Jones, James
Jones, Dan
Jones, Joseph Dan
Jones, Willard Melling

Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 12 March 1849 aboard the ship Emblem.
Arrived in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States on 04 May 1849.

The Call of Zion by Ron Dennis
Welsh in Sanpete County part 1
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Because of the birth of her child on 8 February 1849 in Merthyr Tydfil, Jane did not accompany her husband to Swansea and then to Liverpool where the "Buena Vista" left on 26 February 1849. It was Dan Jones's intention to leave his wife in the care of the Saints in Wales until his return on a second mission a few years hence. Jane apparently did not agree with this plan and made her way to Liverpool where she left on the "Emblem" just two weeks after the departure of her husband. She and little Claudia caught up with Dan Jones in Council Bluffs and crossed the plains with him that same year.

Jane Melling Jones died 24 February 1861 in Provo, Utah. She is buried in the Provo City Cemetery. Her husband died 3 January 1862 in Provo and is also buried in the Provo City Cemetery by Jane's side.

Of the ten children Dan and Jane Melling Jones had only two survived to adulthood: Claudia and Joseph Dan.