article_snippet.sent: In a bid for a better life the family made the lengthy journey via Ellis Island to Scranton in Pennsylvania, another mining district where the family would continue the family trade in the early 1880s.
article_snippet.sent: The pair eloped to Binghampton in New York to get married - a place akin to Gretna Green where people would often go to we
article_snippet.sent: d because regulations were less strict.
article_snippet.sent: The Joneses moved to Scranton.