Eleanor C. Jones (maiden name: Knapp) was born on August 5, 1840, in Warren County, Pennsylvania. She married William M. Jones in the late 1850s, and they had at least four children: Seymour, born around 1857; Maria, born around 1860; William, born around 1862; Walter, born around 1869. They lived in Ripley, New York, and her husband worked as a farmer. By 1870, they owned $300 of real estate. The family moved to North East, Pennsylvania, in the 1870s. Her husband died on May 6, 1910. In 1925, she fell and fractured her femur. She died in Erie, Pennsylvania, on September 16, 1925.