The following article was found in the Wilkes-Barre (PA) Record, 29 Jan 1896, Page 7. If anyone is interested in receiving a copy of this obituary, please send me your mailing address. (This is a long article, so I've only listed the pertinent facts.) (Instead of submitting this to any specific Mailing List, I am submitting it to the General list in the hopes that it will be seen by a more diverse group.) "After an illness of nearly two years, during the last five months of which he was confined to his bed, Rev. Theophilus Jones, the oldest Welsh preacher in the United States, died yesterday of general debility and paralysis, aged 86 years, at the home of his son, attorney D.J. Jones, 51 Sullivan street. Deceased was born in January 1810....He was in early youth apprenticed to the weaving business and worked as a weaver at Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tydvil, Wales...was converted at a Cymanfa of the Welsh Baptist denomination in 1827, at Caerphilly, under the preaching of the late Christmas Evans, who was one of the greatest preachers of the century in Wales...Deceased was a preacher at 17 years of age and was ordained when he was 20 years of age...He married in Wales and came to the United States in 1843...He was married prior to his leaving Wales to Miss Morgan of Rhosmean, Llandello, Wales. She was the sister of Col. Dr. John Morgan of the British navy, who on one occasion visited his sister in this city....brief services at the home, 51 Sullivan street, conducted by Rev. J.T. Lloyd, pastor of the Welsh Baptist Church, assisted by Rev. Mr. McGee, Rev. Dr. T.C. Edwards, Rev. D.L. Davis of Edwardsville, Rev. Edward Jenkins, Revs. W.S. Jones and W.F. Davis of Scranton, Rev. Jacob E. Davis of Plymouth, Rev. Charles Jones of Nanticoke, Rev. W.D. Thomas of Pittston and Rev. J.M. Lloyd of Parsons. The remains will be taken to the Welsh Baptist Church. Interment in Hollenback Cemetery." Nancy Cook Pasadena, MD, USA