Basketball is in the Family

 

Source: Ancestry. 1915 Enid HS Girls Basketball, OK.

At the same time my great-grandfather Edgar Lawrence Jones was helping his high school basketball team into position for an Indiana State Championship in 1915, his first cousin Nettie Snoddy was a star guard for the Enid High School Girls Basketball team in Oklahoma. Nettie is pictured above in the center of the photo from the 1915 Enid High School yearbook. As a huge fan of basketball, this was an amazingly cool find to see in the family history. Nettie was a daughter of Nancy Cornelia Jones Snoddy, sister of Thomas Robert Jones, Edgar's father.

Enid HS, 1915.

Enid HS Yearbook, 1915.

The description of Nettie is great to read. "Steady as a rock" and a veteran from the 1914 Girls Basketball team (which is not mentioned in the 1914 Enid HS Yearbook), Nettie was clearly a smart player who worked well with her teammates. She certainly had an influence on her younger brother Clarence, who starred for Enid High five years later in the 1921 & 1922 seasons. I'll have more on this basketball connection to the family in the next posts.