Benjamin Jones

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Husband Benjamin Jones ¹

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           Born:  - Wales
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           Died:  - Greene Co, PA
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         Father: [Father] Jones (      -      )
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General Notes: Husband - Benjamin Jones

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He and his brother Robert, both natives of Wales, came to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1792, and located in Springhill township. He was little of a business man, but of fine scholarly attainments and an ardent promoter of education. While living with his brother Robert, and to some extent concerned with him in the furnace, Benjamin Jones opened a select school in Smithfield\emdash sometimes called Brownfield\emdash town. How long he taught this school is not known, but it is certain that by his example and efforts the people of the township became greatly favorable to select schools, and the establishment of the Springhill Academy was the result. Benjamin Jones was an ardent Baptist, and a substantial supporter of the worship of that denomination in his vicinity. From Springhill township he removed to Greene County, where he died, and was buried in the ground of the Baptist Church near Garrard's Fort, on Big Whitely Creek.

1 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 765.