Elizabeth Jones
(1730-1772)
BIRTH
1730
PLACE
King George, King George, Colony of Virginia
DEATH
1772
PLACE
King George, King George, Colony of Virginia
FAMILY
MOTHER
James Monroe
(1758-1831)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Elizabeth Jones Monroe was James Monroe’s mother and the wife of Spence Monroe, a Virginia farmer. They married around 1752 and lived on the family’s Westmoreland County property, where James was born in 1758. She died about 1772, before her husband’s death in 1774; her brother Joseph Jones then helped raise and educate their children. James later remembered her as a good wife and parent. The museum’s timeline treats her death year as approximate, not an exact date.
EARLY LIFE
Elizabeth Jones was born 1730. The external genealogical record identifies James Jones and Hester Davis as the parents. Surviving structured biographical sources provide limited detail about childhood, education, household routines, or the economic circumstances in which this person grew up.
No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth Jones is established by the structured external record used for this entry. The surviving information is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independently recorded public career. Elizabeth Jones died 1772. Additional claims about employment, officeholding, military service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted record did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Elizabeth Jones died in 1772, in King George, King George, Colony of Virginia. Elizabeth Jones Monroe was James Monroe’s mother and the wife of Spence Monroe, a Virginia farmer. They married around 1752 and lived on the family’s Westmoreland County property, where James was born in 1758. She died about 1772, before her husband’s death in 1774; her brother Joseph Jones then helped raise and educate their children. James later remembered her as a good wife and parent. The museum’s timeline treats her death year as approximate, not an exact date. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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