BIO:  Jeremiah Bixlar Jones, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Windsor Township, Pg 202

JEREMIAH BIXLAR JONES, for thirty-one years a preacher of the Gospel in the church of the 
United Brethren in Christ, was born in Carroll County, Md., April 3, 1829.  His father, John 
Jones, of Welsh descent, and the mother, Elizabeth (Bixlar) Jones, of German descent, were also 
natives of Carroll County, Md., and were the parents of eleven children – eight boys and three 
girls.  The father died in 1873, and the mother in 1864.  Jeremiah B. Jones was married, 
February 4, 1868, to Miss Amanda Anstine, who has borne him the following children:  Mary K., 
Claria A., Annie B., Maggie E. and Gracie W.