Eve, Eva, 1841-1890

Name Eva B Eve
Gender Female
Marriage Date 28 Oct 1863
Marriage Place Richmond, Georgia, USA
Spouse
Charles C Jones

After attending schools in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., she returned to Augusta and settled to a life of cultured leisure, indulging her taste for art and books. On 9 November 1858 she was bridesmaid for her cousin once removed, Ruth Berrien Whitehead's marriage to Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. On 28 October 1863 she became his second wife. From December 1865 to 1877 they lived in New York City, then returned to Summerville, Georgia to live. 1235 She had the family diary of Sarah Eve of Philadelphia ca 1740-1790 published.

Sarah Ponleva “Eva” Berrien Eve [Jones], Richmond County, Georgia

Sarah Ponleva “Eva” Berrien Eve (1841-90) spent most of her life in Richmond Co., GA, near Augusta. Ruth Whitehead, whose BV also survives, was her cousin. [link to Ruth’s]

The daughter of an affluent planter living near Augusta, Eva attended a school for young women, played and sang music from popular operas as well as simple ballads, and had her music collection bound into at least one volume.
Eva traveled to Bethlehem, PA and Washington, DC for her studies
Her mother served as Vice Regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, and her mother was Sarah Lowndes Berrien Casey. Composer A. Iverson of Columbus dedicated “When the Birds to the South” (printed in GLB, 16 October, 1838, p. 188) to Eve’s aunt, Martha Deloney Berrien.
Eva served as a bridesmaid at Ruth’s wedding in 1858, and in October 1863 married Ruth’s widowed husband (Charles Colcock Jones, Civil War mayor of Savannah). On Eva, see Rozier, ed., The Granite Farm, 114.

Eve’s collection of nine binder’s volumes is one of the largest from the South.

The papers of her mother, Philoclea Edgeworth Casey Eve (1813-1889), can be found in the Rubenstein Library, Duke.

Name Eva B Eve
Age 18
Birth Year abt 1842
Gender Female
Race White
Birth Place Georgia
Home in 1860 Augusta Ward 2, Richmond, Georgia
Post Office Augusta
Dwelling Number 517
Family Number 509
Inferred Father
William J Eve
Inferred Mother
Philocha E Eve
Household Members (Name) Age
William J Eve
56
Philocha E Eve
45
Eva B Eve 18
Frances E Eve
16
Mc Pherson E Eve
14

Name Eva Jones
Age in 1870 28
Birth Date abt 1842
Birthplace Georgia
Dwelling Number 434
Home in 1870 Brooklyn Ward 6, Kings, New York
Race White
Gender Female
Post Office Brooklyn
Occupation Keeping House
Inferred Spouse
Charles Jones
Inferred Children
Ruth Jones
Edworth Jones
Household Members (Name) Age
Charles Jones
38
Eva Jones 28
Ruth Jones
9
Edworth Jones
3
Maria Gardiner
35
Kate Kelly
22
Eliza Lander
40