it down, again due to his poor health. As a journalist and campaigner In March 1848 he moved to Cardiff to edit The Principality, a weekly English-language newspaper which had been established the previous year by David Tudor Evans. Jones left the paper in September after falling out with the publisher. A month later he was working on John Cassell's Standard of Freedom in London, followed by an editorial role on The Pathway before editing Almanac y Cymru in 1849. Before ill health forced him to return to Cardiff he remarried, to Rachel, daughter of Reverend Walter Lewis of Tredustan. In 1850 Jones was the first editor of Y Gymraes (The Welshwomen) under the patronage of Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover. Y Gymraes, which first appeared in January of that year. It was published as a direct response to the debate caused by an 1847 governmental bill into the state of education in Wales. The report were immensely detailed and was damning towards not only the state of education in Wales but drew a very critical picture of the Welsh as a people. Jones was a constant champion towards his people, specially the womenfolk, whose morals were severely criticized in the report. He set out to prove that the morality of the Welsh were no different to the English to which the Bill compared them, making detailed studies of facts such as the comparison of the countries' illegitimacy rates. Although he privately disapproved of some practices conducted in Wales, such as bundling, he defended Welsh women resolutely and became their moral champion. The decision to publish Y Gymraes was not taken lightly as Jones' health had worsened and he did not expect to live to see more than a few issues of the monthly paper. Jones also edited a quarterly during this time, the Adolygydd, but both papers were financial failures, but were saved from closure two years later when they were taken over by the Reverend David Rees of Llanelli who wanted Jones to continue as joint editor with him. This however never came to pass as Jones died in Cardiff on 23 February 1852. He was buried at Groes-wen. A monument to Jones, which is now a grade II listed building, was erected at Groeswen Chapel. The reason given for the monument's listing is as "an unusual neo-classical monument to a prominent Welsh journalist and pioneer of non-conformism." See