Eliza Jones

Elizabeth "Eliza" Field (June 1, 1804 – August 17, 1890) was an English-born Canadian writer and artist. She was also known as Elizabeth Jones, Elizabeth Jones Carey and Kecheahgahmequa. Portrait of Eliza Field, made in 1832 by London painter Matilda Jones.

Biography The daughter of Charles Field, a soap and candle manufacturer, and Elizabeth Carter, she was born in Lambeth and attended a boarding school in Surrey. When her mother died in 1820, she returned home to look after her younger brothers and sisters. In 1831, she met Peter Jones, an Ojibwa Methodist minister from Canada who was raising funds to support his missionary work; they married in New York City in 1833 despite opposition by her parents and many of her friends. They settled in a cabin on the Credit River Indian Reserve. She was frequently ill and suffered two miscarriages and two still births. However, she taught the children about Christianity and taught the young girls how to sew. She visited England in 1837–38 with her niece Nahnebahwequa and, when she returned, gave birth to a son. From 1841 to 1849, they worked at the Muncey mission near London in Canada West. Her husband's was frequently ill during this period. In 1851, they moved to a house in Brantford; her husband died five years later.

Field died in Brantford at the age of 84.