Mary Evangeline "Eva" Jones was the second of ten children born to John Henry and Mary Alice Jones.  Her parents were originally from Wales, but were in living in Manchester, England when she was born on January 30, 1860.

She immigrated to Canada with her parents between the 1862 and 1864 births of her sisters Sarah and Rebeca. 

On May 19, 1886 Eva married Darius Detlor in the Methodist church in Newburgh, Ontario. 

Eva died on October 17, 1936 in Sheffield from stomach cancer.  Darius outlived her, dying in 1951.