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.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Behind the scenes 3 Appearances 4 Sources 5 Notes and references 6 External links

[edit] Biography

Anna Mary^[1] Jones was born in Virginia on March 17, 1878.

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].

When they returned home she became ill and contracted scarlet fever, a condition she kept hidden from her husband until she died in 1912 aged 34.

[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, which first named the character "Mary".^[6] However, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles later firmly established the name "Anna". Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide 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.^[7] The former is confirmed in the Ultimate Guide as dying "of complications from" scarlet fever.

[edit] Appearances

• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Jackal" (First appearance) → My First Adventure
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Florence, May 1908" → The Perils of Cupid
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Paris, September 1908" → Passion for Life
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Vienna, November 1908" → The Perils of Cupid
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "British East Africa, September 1909" → Passion for Life
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father" → Travels with Father
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Benares, January 1910" → Journey of Radiance
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Peking, March 1910" → Journey of Radiance
• Young Indiana Jones and the Titanic Adventure (Indirect mention)
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones – Spring Break Adventure (Mentioned only)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "London, May 1916" → Love's Sweet Song (Mentioned only)
• The Mata Hari Affair (Mentioned only)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Petrograd, July 1917" → Adventures in the Secret Service (Mentioned only)
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones – Winds of Change (Pictured only)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (First mentioned)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade novel (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade comic (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones and the Golden Fleece (Indirect mention)

[edit] Sources

• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure
• The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones
• Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide

[edit] Notes and references

[edit] External links

• Indycron continuity database questions