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…
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…
My Great Grandmother Became an Adult at 11
[Fearless Females: Prompts for Women’s History Month, March 11th–Female ancestor who died young…this is a repeat from last year] (Reposting this one from last year. My Great Grandmother was an incredible woman!) My Great Great Grandmother was Margaret (Kelly) Jones. Margaret lived next door to a young man named, Thomas Augustine Jones. They married in…
The Remarkable Jones Women
At the age of 39, Thomas Augustine Jones found himself a widow with two teenagers and three daughters under the age of 10 to raise. It was 1889, and San Francisco was still somewhat of a wild city. Not exactly the best place to raise children, yet he did it, and they turned out to…