Mary White Smith Jones

• American

Mary White Smith Jones was the daughter of Baptist minister and hymn-writer Samuel Francis Smith, author of the patriotic anthem "America" (My Country, 'Tis of Thee). She married Rev Howard Malcom Jones and became the mother of Minneapolis architect Harry Wild Jones, carrying forward a family line distinguished by religious leadership, literary influence and early American heritage. A direct descendant of Mayflower passengers Governor William Bradford, John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, her life bridged the nation's colonial legacy with its 19th-century cultural and architectural currents. - AsNotedIn

Lineage

• Father Rev Samuel Francis Smith

• Son: Harry Wild Jones