When she was 6 years old, her family moved to Terra Alta, West Virginia in Preston County, which was at the time called Cranberry Summit.

[1][2][3] Her father John was born in 1832 in Cardiganshire, Wales and immigrated to the United States in 1838.

[2] Jones held a great interest in the rights of women in the United States.

In 1889, she won the right for women to attend West Virginia's state colleges and universities.

She was active in many organizations, including the West Virginia Equal Suffrage Association, the State Medical Association, the Ohio County Medical Society, The American Medical Association, the League of Women Voters, and the West Virginia chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union,.

She was the only woman from West Virginia to be honored on a commemorative tablet by the League of Women Voters.

The tablet was meant to honor the leaders of the movement, and was established in 1930 in Washington, D.C.[2] Jones was also a successful lobbyist.

(Incorrect, check source, Anna Johnson Gates was the first woman in the state government.)