Individual Details

Phebe Jones

(16 Apr 1799 - 21 Apr 1881)

The story is that she married a sailor named Atkinson and he ran away the next day. That seems perhaps true as she was the widow Phebe Atkinson when she wrote her will and she left all her estates to siblings, nieces, and nephews.
https://www.mhl.org/sites/default/files/files/Abbott/Jones%20Family.pdf

There is a petition for a guardian for her in 1878 as being insane. She lived with her sister Anna, but Anna died in 1878 which is why the guardian was named then.

Phebe died in Stoneham and she is there in the 1880 census. Her runaway husband seems to have been from Stoneham as the marriage is recorded there.

Events

Birth16 Apr 1799Andover, Essex, Massachusetts
Marriage29 May 1822Stoneham, Middlesex, Massachusetts - Jonathan Atkinson
Residence1850Andover, Essex, Massachusetts
Will15 Jun 1869Andover, Essex, Massachusetts
Residence1870Residence Post Office: Andover - Andover, Essex, Massachusetts
Residence1880Marital Status: Widowed - Stoneham, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Probate1881Essex, Massachusetts
Death21 Apr 1881Stoneham, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Occupationnurse

Families

SpouseJonathan Atkinson ( - )
FatherNathan Jones (1767 - 1804)
MotherDorcas Farnum (1766 - 1856)
SiblingJacob Jones (1789 - 1821)
SiblingLydia Jones (1790 - 1875)
SiblingNathan Jones (1792 - 1799)
SiblingHermon Jones (1793 - 1869)
SiblingPhebe Jones (1795 - 1798)
SiblingGardner Jones (1798 - 1850)
SiblingAnna Jones (1801 - 1878)
SiblingDorcas Jones (1803 - 1826)

Endnotes

1. Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011).

2. Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), Year: 1850; Census Place: Andover, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll: M432_314; Page: 375B; Image: 462.

3. Ancestry.com, 1870 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), Year: 1870; Census Place: Andover, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll: M593_607; Page: 79B; Family History Library Film: 552106.

4. Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1880 United States Federal Census (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010), Year: 1880; Census Place: Stoneham, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: 542; Page: 339B; Enumeration District: 412.

5. Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Essex County, Massachusetts, Probate Records and Indexes 1638-1916; Author: Massachusetts. Probate Court (Essex County); Probate Place: Essex, Massachusetts.

6. Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013), New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911.