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Anna Mary Jones

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CHARACTER
Anna Mary Jones
Gender Female
Birth March 17[1], 1878
Virginia, USA[2]
Death May 16, 1912[1]
Nationality American

Profession(s)

Homemaker

Allegiance(s)

Jones family

"She was the sweetest, smartest, most wonderful woman who ever lived."
―Indiana Jones[src]

Anna Mary Jones was the mother of Henry Jones, Jr. and Susie Jones, and the wife of Henry Jones, Sr. She died of scarlet fever in 1912.

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[edit] Biography

Anna Mary[1] Jones was born of a wealthy family in Virginia on March 17, 1878. She had at least one sister.

July 1, 1899

When she grew up Anna met and fell in love with an Oxford University graduate named Henry Jones whom she eventually married in 1898. The following year she gave birth to a son, Henry, named after his father at their home in Princeton, New Jersey. The pair had a second child, Susie, but her strength was poor. Susie died at an early age.[3]

Soon after Henry Jr's birth, Anna gifted her son with Indiana, an Alaskan Malamute who Junior would later take his name. The senior Henry, meanwhile, had become a successful Professor at Princeton University and his books had garnered him enough attention to be invited on a two year world lecture tour. He accepted, and Anna and her family set out to travel the world in 1908[4].

Later that year in Italy, she faced a crisis of fidelity as Giacomo Puccini took advantage of the toll her husband's constant absences were taking and Anna found herself being drawn to the opera composer. However, she stuck to her vows, jilting the suitor at the very same train station where Professor Jones was returning. Henry was overjoyed at seeing his wife had come to greet him and her faith remained[5].

Later on the tour in 1910 in Russia, Indiana ran away after causing a scene at a wedding at their hosts' estate. Anna had to both worry about Indiana, and begin caring for Indy's tutor, Helen Seymour, who began to get ill. Concerned for Miss Seymour's health prompted her to possibly let Henry continue toward Greece without them once Indiana was found, but the group managed to stick together for the train ride to Odessa and the voyage to Athens. In Athens, a trip to the Parthenon was cut short as Anna felt compelled to return to tend to the ailing tutor. Anna also received word that her sister was in town, and planned a trip to a spa with Miss Seymour and her sister, letting Henry take their son to Kalambaka - and hoping that the two would become more attached as father and son.[6]

After they returned home, she became ill and contracted scarlet fever, a condition her husband was unaware of. She died of complications with the fever in 1912 at the age of 34[7].

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[edit] Behind the scenes

Anna Jones was portrayed by actress Ruth de Sosa in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

The Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure came with a replica of Henry Sr.'s diary, in which Henry Jones referred to his wife as "Mary".[8] However, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles later firmly established the name first name "Anna". Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide and The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones combined the two names as "Anna Mary Jones".

Although Old Indy explains that the character died of scarlet fever in the original series,[2] it is contradicted in new footage shot for the 1999 re-edit, where Indiana explains she died of influenza.[9] The former is confirmed in the Ultimate Guide as dying "of complications from" scarlet fever.

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[edit] Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, "Paris, September 1908"
  3. ↑ "Peking, March 1910"
  4. ↑ My First Adventure
  5. ↑ The Perils of Cupid
  6. ↑ Travels with Father
  7. ↑ The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones has a memorial card stating that she was 33 when she died on March 3, 1912. Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide states that she died on May 16, 1912, and would have been 34 based on her birthdate in that source.
  8. ↑ Official Grail Diary Pages: Henry's Grail Diary from LC Graphic Adventure. IndyGear.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-21.
  9. ↑ Spring Break Adventure

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