Anna Mary Jones in 1910.
Anna Mary Jones (1878-1912) was the wife of Professor Henry Walton Jones, Senior and the mother of their two children: Henry Jr., nicknamed Indiana, and Susie.
Biography[]
Anna Mary Jones was born of a wealthy family in Virginia, USA on March 17, 1878. She had at least one sibling: a sister.
When she grew up, Anna met and fell in love with an Oxford University graduate named Henry Jones whom she eventually married in 1898 and kept a modern home with him in New Haven, Connecticut. The following year she gave birth to a son, Henry, named after his father, at their new home in Princeton, New Jersey. The pair had a second child, Susie, but her strength was poor and she died at an early age.
Soon after Henry Jr's birth, Anna gifted her son with Indiana, an Alaskan Malamute whose name Junior would later take for his own in 1905. The senior Henry, meanwhile, had become a successful professor at Princeton University and his books had garnered enough attention to see him invited on a two year long world lecture tour. He accepted, and Anna and her family set out to travel the world in 1908.
At some point, Anna became ill and contracted scarlet fever. Not wanting to worry her husband, she kept him unaware of the illness. She died of complications with the fever on May 16, 1912 at the age of 34.