David Evan Jones, Mizo name Zosaphluia (15 February 1870 – 10 August 1947), was a Welsh missionary to the Mizo people in the Lushai Hills, what is now Mizoram, India.
Jones was born at Brynmelyn, Llandderfel and educated at Bala Grammar School, then the Liverpool Institute, Bala College and the Presbyterian United Theological College, Aberystwyth.
[1] In 1904, he married Katherine Ellen Williams, at Sylhet (now Bangladesh), and they had a son Alwyn.
The Jones retired to Britain after 30 years in Mizoram in 1927 and lived in Liverpool and Prestatyn.
[3] He was part of a team translating the Bible into the local Lakher and Lushai languages.