[2] Jones was the daughter of Nevada Senator John Percival Jones, co-founder of the town of Santa Monica, California, and Georgina Frances Sullivan.

[6] In 1900, Jones was the first non-British woman to play at Wimbledon where she reached the quarterfinals in which she was eliminated by G.E.

[7] She was mainly a baseline player who possessed a solid backhand and forehand and who had good accuracy in her shots.

[8][9] She married architect Robert D. Farquhar in New York City, in 1903.

From 1920 until 1961, Marion Jones Farquhar lived in Greenwich Village, where she was well known as a violinist and voice coach.