PCA Historical Center Biography File: Mary G. Jones, Missionary to Australian Semi-Aboriginals

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Director: Wayne Sparkman

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Mary Graham Jones

[12 April 1905 - circa 1972]

Parents: Father, Rev. Albert Edward Jones [born, 27 July 1887];
mother, Janet Brewster Jones [born, 6 December 1886]. Rev. Albert E. Jones was a minister with the Presbyterian Church of Australia.

Birthplace: Scotland

Spouse: unmarried

Children: none

Undergraduate Education: Box Hill, Victoria; Essendon High School; Stott's College, Melbourne, Victoria; Bible Institute of Perth.

Graduate Education: none

Ministry: "In January 1930 I commenced my life's work at the Mt. Margaret Mission, Morgans, W.A. where I remained for 14 years except for a period of ten months, when I left to establish a mission at Kellerberrin...It became necessary for health reasons to seek a cooler climate. As the United Aboriginal Mission, with which I had been affiliated for 14 years, was interdenominational but Baptistic, I decided to work independently on Presbyterian lines which would be true to the Word of God, and so the work among the Noongaar people of the Great Southern began. My beloved father was a great source of help and encouragement. When he passed away eleven years ago [this was written in 1965; Rev. A.E. Jones would then have died in 1954], I felt I had to secure the continuity of the work with a Board who would be Evangelistic and sound in the faith. The Lord led me, in answer to prayer to W.P.M. and I praise Him for this and for the confidence He has given that the people so dear to me, will be ministered to faithfully by them. To God be the Praise and the Glory." [signed, Mary Graham Jones]

Items of Interest:

Related Holdings in the PCA Historical Center:

1. Box 414 - World Presbyterian Missions:

Jones, Mary G., 1964 – 1965, Correspondence [70 leaves]	414	21
Jones, Mary G., 1966, Correspondence and Prayer Letters [46 leaves]	414	20
Jones, Mary G., 1967, Correspondence and Prayer Letters [73 leaves]	414	19
Jones, Mary G., 1968, Correspondence [53 leaves]	414	18
Jones, Mary G., 1969 – 1971, Correspondence and Prayer Letters [52 leaves]	414	17

2. Box 411 - World Presbyterian Missions

Australia Mission, 1964 – 1966, Correspondence of Miss Mary G. Jones, William Mahlow, Dan Cannon, Grahame Kerr, Andrew Priddle; Minutes [37 leaves]	411	31
Australia Mission, 1967 – 1973, Correspondence	411	30

3. Box 418 - World Presbyterian Missions:

Australia, 1966 – 1977, Prayer Letters	418	29
World Presbyterian Missions, 1965, Minutes and Reports	418	18
World Presbyterian Missions, 1966, Minutes and Reports	418	17

4. See also the prayer letters of David Cross and other early missionaries and workers in the Australian work.