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Mabel Augusta Evans Jones (December 6, 1888 – August 31, 1982) was an American educator and writer. As superintendent of schools in
Dare County, North Carolina Dare County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,915. Its county seat is Manteo. Dare County is named after Virginia Dare, the first child born in the Americas to English p ...
, she wrote and produced the silent film ''The Lost Colony'' (1921), directed by Elizabeth B. Grimball and intended for classroom and community educational use.


Early life

Mabel Augusta Evans was born in
Manteo, North Carolina Manteo () is a town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States, located on Roanoke Island. The population was 1,602 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Dare County. Geography Manteo is located at (35.904595, -75.669385), on the north ...
, the daughter of Richard Coles Evans and Cordelia Augusta Cofield Evans. She graduated from
Greensboro College Greensboro College is a private college in Greensboro, North Carolina. It is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and was founded in 1838 by Rev. Peter Doub. The college enrolls about 1,000 students from 32 states, the District of Columbi ...
in 1908. In the 1920s she studied at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...
, and she completed a master's degree at
Teachers College, Columbia University Teachers College, Columbia University (TC), is the graduate school of education, health, and psychology of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City. Founded in 1887, it has served as one of the official faculties and ...
.


Career

Mabel Evans Jones was superintendent of schools in Dare County, North Carolina, beginning in 1920. She visited the island schools in her county by boat. She wrote the script for ''The Lost Colony'' (1921), a silent film directed by Elizabeth B. Grimball for use in classrooms and community education. Jones also produced the movie and appeared on screen as
Eleanor Dare Eleanor Dare (née White; c. 1568 – after August 18, 1587) of Westminster, London, England, was a member of the Roanoke Colony and the daughter of John White, the colony's governor. While little is known about her life, more is known abou ...
. She stayed involved with organizing ''
The Lost Colony The establishment of the Roanoke Colony ( ) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America. The English, led by Sir Humphrey Gilbert, had briefly claimed St. John's, Newfoundland, in ...
'' performances at Manteo into the 1960s. Evans supervised the elementary schools in
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in the late 1920s. She taught in Alabama for ten years, and worked at Seatone Children's Camp near Manteo. In 1950, she was a member of the Dare County Board of Education. Much later in life, in 1971 and 1976, Evans recorded commentaries about the making of the film.


Personal life

Evans married grocer Onslow Jennings Jones in 1939. Her husband died in 1958, and Mabel Evans Jones died in 1982, aged 93 years, in
Elizabeth City, North Carolina Elizabeth City is a city in Pasquotank County, North Carolina, Pasquotank County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 18,629. Elizabeth City is the county seat and largest city of Pasquotank County. It ...
. The Roanoke Island Historical Association holds a copy of the 1921 film she wrote and produced. Her great-niece Patricia Baum Salgado was producer of ''The Lost Colony'' in Manteo in the 1990s.


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The Lost Colony
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