Thursday, May 18, 2017

Throwback Thursday, Keeping Up With The Jones




Throwback Thursday.  This Ann's mother's mother side of the family, the Jones.



Photo 1.  c1903.The father is Walter Vernon Jones (1873-1940).  The mother is Mintora Mathis Jones (1880-1975).  They lived in the Milton/Cummings, Georgia, area. The oldest daughter, standing next to her mother is Myrtle Irene Jones (1895-1991).  She married Paul Everett Foster.  She and Paul are Anna's grandparents.  The next oldest daughter is Edith Gertrude  Jones (1898-1986).  She married Twigg W. Wood.  They had no children.  The boy is Felton Murdock Jones (1900-1981).  He married Voncile Carolyn Anderson.  They had three children.  Felton owned an ice cream shop in downtown Roswell.  The baby sitting in her mother lap must be Nellie Elizabeth Jones (1903-2001).  She married Leonard Floyd Stone.  They had one daughter.



Photo 2. Same  Jones family some years later.  I believe it was taken before 31 October 1912, because the youngest child Vivian Velma Jones is not listed.
Left to Right.
First Row:  Nellie Elizabeth,  Willie Echo Jones (1908-2002),  She married Bennie Hill Glover.  They had four children.  And Vernice Vivian Vera Jones (1906-1982).  She married (1)David Cain Sudan.    They had one son. (2) Horace Wood.  No children.  And (3) Herman Bown.  No Children.
Second Row:  Gertrude, Irene, and  Felton Jones.







Photo 3. July 27, 1991.  Surviving sisters Nellie Jones Stone,  Willie Jones Glover, and Velma Jones Kelly attending their sister Irene Jones Foster's burial at Midway Church  between Alpharetta and  Cummings.   

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