{"id":14092,"date":"2013-02-17T21:51:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T21:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=14092"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:30:09","slug":"marcelinecarolyn_text","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=14092","title":{"rendered":"Marceline Jones Request of Carolyn Layton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[<b>Notes: <\/b>This letter appears at RYMUR 89-4286-B-2-c-8 abnd at BB-23-g-1. The text may also be found on page 60 in <i><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/dearpeoplerememberingjonestown.pdf\">Dear People: Remembering Jonestown<\/a><\/i>, edited by Denice Stephenson (Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday Books, 2005).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[A Spanish translation of this will appears <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=135584\">here<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">May 25, 1974<\/p>\n<p>To Whom It May Concern:<\/p>\n<p>In the event of my death, I, Marceline M. Jones, would like for Carolyn Layton to take over the mothering responsibilities of my children. I would, in fact, hope she could move into the house and fill any void my absence might leave.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">May 25, 1974<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-align: right;\">\/s\/ Marceline M. Jones<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Witness: Name: \/s\/ Esther Mueller<br \/>\nAddress: 7600 E. Road<br \/>\nWitness: Name: \/s\/ Joyce A. Parks<br \/>\n7750 East Road<br \/>\nRedwood Valley,<br \/>\nCalif. 95470<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":14079,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14092","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14092"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135589,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14092\/revisions\/135589"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}