You may find the following entry, which I have prepared for a forthcoming volume of Montgomeryshire Biographies, helpful :
JONES, Richard (1820 -1904) Farmer and community leader.
b. 28 Apr 1820, son of Richard Jones (1783-1849) of Glyndyfrdwy and Ann (n้e Evans), Llanrhaeadr ym Mochnant, at Penygraig, Cymdy, the family moving to Glashirfryn, Llansilin, in 1827. There were four daus and three sons. William (1822 -1897) and John (1828-1902) are the two other brothers portrayed in the composite biography listed below; both were prominent in local chapel affairs. After attending local schools, all the children were sent to Oswestry Grammar. Richard m.(1) Oct 1840 Margaret Edwards, Plasynglyn (b.6 Sep 1822), and the couple spent the first few years at her home, before moving to Llanfyllin and, in May 1847 to the substantial farm Henfache, Llanrhaeadr, initially on rent but purchased in 1858. Nine children were born, but the mother d. 13 Dec 1864 (memoir E 58 (1866), 353-60). In 1869 Richard m.(2) a widow, Mrs Mary Ann Hughes (b.Liverpool,c.1819), but she failed to settle and spent most of her time with her dau. in Rhyl. In 1879 he retired from Henfache to a large house, Glanaber, which he had designed himself. He was very active on the School Board (its chairman for fifteen years), the Highways Board, the Board of Guardians, as a Commissioner of Taxes and other public bodies. In the early 1880s he was made a JP and, after a hotly contested election, became a member of the first Denbighshire County Council, and served for nine years. He was especially active in the Wesleyan connexion and in 1891 was a delegate to its Ecumenical Conference in Washington, DC.
In 1868 he published in Caernarfon Clustnodydd neu Gydymaith y Bugail, with over 1200 earmarks of sheep, collected by John Roberts, Rhyd-y-felin, and with additions by R Roberts and himself..
d. 30 Mch 1904
O Madoc Roberts, Cofiant y Tri Brawd, Treffynnon, 1906; E 96 (1904) 196-7.
E = Yr Eurgrawn, the Wesleyan Methodist periodical
