Person:Lydia Rollins (4)

The earlier family records I inherited had LYDIA JONES, b. June 11, 1802, as EVAN W.'s only sibling (the source for this name and date is not known). Joseph JONES' estate papers includes NANCY among his children but not LYDIA, and his 1881 bio also includes Nancy but not Lydia. Finally in October 2004, a letter from EVAN's younger sister, Mary M. VORHIS in Davis Co., IA, dated Jan. 29, 1891, written to EVAN's granddaughter, Jane C. Love, identifies

Evan W. Jones was born September 9th 1794
Mary Jones was born August 31st 1796. his first Wife.
Harriet Jones was born September 16 1816. His Daughter.
Lydia Jones was born June 11th 1802. Second Wife. your Grandmother.

1891 March 24, Troy, Iowa. Writing for her grandmother, Mary Jones Vorhis, Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Your Grandmother name was Lydia Rollins. They lived so far away that Grandma don't know much about her, they lived on Pickaway, Troy* Ohio. Grandma's Mothers name was Polly Cavault."

• Troy is the county seat of Miami Co., OH, where Evan and his family were enumerated in 1820. According to the U.S. Geological Survey website, there is no place in Pickaway Co., OH, known as Troy, and conversely, there is no place in Miami Co., OH, known as Pickaway.

Correspondence from the family letters and papers of Jane Love and her cousin, Lillice Jones Harper, courtesy John, Danny, and Dave Harper in 2001 and 2004, transcribed by Brenda Boyer

1. ↑ JONES / WILKINSON family records compiled by my mother.

   Lydia Jones, born June 11, 1802, was thought to be a sister, and only sibling, of Evan W. Jones

2. ↑ correspondence, 19th century
   letter to Jane C. Love from Mary M. Jones Vorhis, Davis Co., IA, dated Jan. 29, 1891.

   "Lydia Jones was born June 11th 1802. Second Wife [of Evan W. Jones]. your Grandmother." This letter from Evan's younger sister, found in October 2004, was our first knowledge that Evan W. Jones had been married 3 times

3. ↑ LDS Ancestral File(s).

   Lydia Rollins b. June 11, 1802, was the 4th child of Jonathan Rollins and Amy Winans of Miami Co., OH