Tag Archives: Jones

The Moms in my Tree

Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms! I was thinking about my family tree and the moms that fill it’s leaves and support it’s branches.  There are women of such strength and character.  Women who lost children, lost husbands, lost homes…they survived what life threw at them…most of them worked to help put food on …

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Alice (Jones) Bourne’s Individual Summary

Alice was the daughter of my great great uncle and aunt, John and Matilde (Mccullough) Jones.  I don’t know anything about her other than that she was born ca. 1909 in San Francisco and where she lived with her parents up until 1930. Name:    Alice JONES-8627 Sex:    Female Father:    John J. JONES-8423 (1871-1937) Mother:    Matilde …

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Margaret (Coffin) Jones Individual Summary

Until about 3 years ago, I didn’t know about Margaret.  That’s because I did not know that my great great grandfather, Thomas Augustine Jones, had a brother.  Even after 20+ years of research there are still mysteries. Margaret’s life took a turn for the worst in the early1900s when her husband, John Charles Jones, became …

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