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David Evan Jones, Mizo name Zosaphluia (15 February 1870 – 10 August 1947) was a Welsh missionary in Mizoram, India, connected to both the Mizoram Presbyterian Church and the Baptist Church of Mizoram. In 1903 he married Katherine Ellen Williams, at Sylhet, now in Bangladesh. Jones learnt the Mizo language from Scottish missionaries James Herbert Lorrain and Fred W. Savidge who had devised the Lushai language alphabet. and became a member of team making Bible translations into the local languages - the Lakher language and Lushai language.

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  • David Evan Jones, Mizo name Zosaphluia (15 February 1870 – 10 August 1947) was a Welsh missionary in Mizoram, India, connected to both the Mizoram Presbyterian Church and the Baptist Church of Mizoram. In 1903 he married Katherine Ellen Williams, at Sylhet, now in Bangladesh. Jones learnt the Mizo language from Scottish missionaries James Herbert Lorrain and Fred W. Savidge who had devised the Lushai language alphabet. and became a member of team making Bible translations into the local languages - the Lakher language and Lushai language. (en)
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  • David Evan Jones, Mizo name Zosaphluia (15 February 1870 – 10 August 1947) was a Welsh missionary in Mizoram, India, connected to both the Mizoram Presbyterian Church and the Baptist Church of Mizoram. Jones was born at Brynmelyn, Llandderfel. educated at Bala Grammar School, then the Liverpool Institute, Bala College and the Presbyterian United Theological College, Aberystwyth. He was pastor of a church in Bettws, Montgomery, for two years before being formally ordained into the English Baptists in 1897 prior to sailing for India on 26 June 1897. He arrived at Aizawl, in the Lushai Hills, two months later on 31 August. While in the Lushai Hills area, he spent Christmas in the hamlet of Pukpui, and stayed there for Christmas. In 1903 he married Katherine Ellen Williams, at Sylhet, now in Bangladesh. Jones learnt the Mizo language from Scottish missionaries James Herbert Lorrain and Fred W. Savidge who had devised the Lushai language alphabet. and became a member of team making Bible translations into the local languages - the Lakher language and Lushai language. David Evan Jones retired after 30 years in Mizoram in 1927 and returned to Britain to live at Liverpool and Prestatyn. He died at Prestatyn, on 10 August 1947. Katherine died on 20 May 1950. (en)
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