I am looking for information about Ruth Jones, who married Joseph Young, in Shenandoah Co., VA 6 Dec 1791. Her father was Evan Jones, high sheriff of Shenandoah Co. at the time. I found a biography of him in a History of Shenandoah published in 1927, and it said that there were still Jones descendants living on "Back Road" in southwest Shenandoah County at the time the book was published. I also found a lot of Evan Joneses in Pennsylvania as part of the Quaker meetings up there, so I guess it was a common name. Joseph Young's grandparents, Joseph and Margery Fawcett were Irish Quakers who were part of the Chester Co., PA Quaker Meeting, so there could be a connection there, but I haven't been able to untangle it yet. Are there any Jones family researchers on this list? I would like to know who Evan Jones' parents were and anything about him, such as birth, marriage, children, death. He was an original land grant owner in Frederick County, from Lord Fairfax. He lived in "The Forest" which I've been told is near New Market, Forestville, and Mt. Jackson. It appears that he owned a lot of land adjacent to Little North Mountain as well. He was a census taker in the 1785 census of Shenandoah. Sue Costa