Dan Jones (Mormon)

Living in Halkyn with views across the Dee and Mersey estuary, after a night on Moel y Gaer consuming the local fungi, he had a vision.

After the Ripple struck a rock and sank, Jones captained the Maid of Iowa, which could transport approximately 300 passengers.

The following April, Jones used the Maid of Iowa to transport approximately 300 English Latter-day Saint converts from Mississippi to Nauvoo.

With Willard Richards and John Taylor, Jones was chosen to accompany the Smiths to jail to offer support and protection.

Engaged in such a cause, I do not think that death would have many terrors.” Smith replied with what many have identified as his "last prophecy": "You will yet see Wales and fulfill the mission appointed you before you die.

Jones and his wife traveled to England with Wilford Woodruff and a number of other persons who had been asked to serve as missionaries in the British Isles.

In terms of population, one out of every 278 people in Wales at that time was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

On 13 July 1849, Jones and many of his Welsh converts left Council Bluffs with other pioneers in the George A. Smith company.

However, upon his return he began to suffer ill health, probably partially as a result of his missionary exertions and life's extensive travels.

Less than one year later, on the 24th anniversary of his marriage to Jane, Jones died of tuberculosis at Provo, Utah Territory, at the age of fifty-one.

President Gordon B. Hinckley had stated that Jones "must certainly be included in the half dozen or so most productive missionaries in the history of the Church.