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Cynthia J Sullivan Jones

Birth
Death
1880 (aged 56–57)
Dunavant, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, USA
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Dunavant, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, USA Add to Map
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Cynthia was the daughter of Newton Sullivan and Anne "Nancy" Macdorman. She was the third wife of Churchill Jones and married him after her sister, Sarah Jane Sullivan died in childbirth. Sarah was the second wife of Churchill. In 1880 Cynthia was nursing the children of her niece. Louisa Ellen Sullivan Powell and John Thomas Powell.

Three of the Powell children, Berta Woodson, Ida Thomas and Ella Frances died in 1880 from the unknown epidemic. Cynthia caught the disease and died while nursing and was buried in the cemetery along with the children. When the inscribed grave markers were placed circa 1946 it was not known at that time that Cynthia's grave was also in the cemetery. Her grave remains unmarked.
Cynthia was the daughter of Newton Sullivan and Anne "Nancy" Macdorman. She was the third wife of Churchill Jones and married him after her sister, Sarah Jane Sullivan died in childbirth. Sarah was the second wife of Churchill. In 1880 Cynthia was nursing the children of her niece. Louisa Ellen Sullivan Powell and John Thomas Powell.

Three of the Powell children, Berta Woodson, Ida Thomas and Ella Frances died in 1880 from the unknown epidemic. Cynthia caught the disease and died while nursing and was buried in the cemetery along with the children. When the inscribed grave markers were placed circa 1946 it was not known at that time that Cynthia's grave was also in the cemetery. Her grave remains unmarked.


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