The Welsh Saints Project

Given Name: Elvira
Surname: Jones

Gender: Female

Birth date: 25 January 1808

Birth place: Glamorganshire, Wales View Sources

Death date: 8 August 1876

Death place: Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States View Sources

Burial date: 10 August 1876

Burial place: Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States View Sources

Father: Hopkin Jones
Mother: Rachel Evans

Siblings

Thomas, Ebenezer (1804-1849)

Married 25 October 1841 in Eglwysilan, Glamorganshire, Wales

Children

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Chauncey Loveland (1797-1876)

Married 1860 in Utah, United States

1841 UK Census	Egliogoiton, Glamorgan, Wales	Extract	Image
1851 UK Census	Whitchurch, Glamorgan, Wales	Extract	Image
1860 US Census	Bountiful, Davis, Tery of UTah	Extract	Image

Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 19 April 1856 aboard the ship Samuel Curling.
Arrived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachuetts, United States on 23 May 1856.

"Pioneer Database," database (history.churchofjesuschrist.org: accessed 13 March 2020), Elvira Thomas entry, age 48, Edward Bunker Company (1856).

"Saints By Sea," database (saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu: accessed 13 March 2020), Elvira Thomas entry, age 46, arrived 23 May 1856 on the S. Curling.

Elvira Jones Thomas's husband Ebenezer died 6 May 1849 on the Missouri River while on board the "Highland Mary", the steamboat contracted to take the Welsh Saints from St. Louis to Council Bluffs. Elvira and her son Edward (age 13) came to America on board the "S. Curling" in 1856.

Records indicate that Thomas and Gwenllian were Elvira's children by different fathers, although Edward Thomas was the child of Ebenezer.