Alma, 1976

Alma Oyler Jones, photo taken 30 June 1976

This photo is of my great-grandmother Alma Oyler Jones, taken on 30 June 1976 in Indianapolis. I'm currently going through a set of old photos passed down to my Dad from various members of his side of the family.

Retirement for Uncle Bob

Bridgewater (NJ) Courier-News, 8 Jun 1972

This article announces the retirement of Robert P. Jones (brother of my grandfather Keith D. Jones) as CEO of Oakite Products in June 1972. I previously posted a photo of the two of them in the 1920s. Robert, who I knew as Uncle Bob, became President and CEO of Oakite in March 1963. He started out as a field representative in Indianapolis in 1949.

In the news

Maryville Times, 19 Aug 1891.

While looking through articles on Newspapers.com, I stumbled onto this clipping mentioning the marriage of my 3rd-great-grandfather Joseph Jones and his second wife, Amanda Cooper Irwin in Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee. I previously posted a copy of their marriage license in December 2013. They later divorced on 30 April 1897.

Another clipping shows Joseph, my 2nd-great-grandfather Thomas Robert Jones and Robert O. Snoddy (husband of Nancy Cornelia Jones, Joseph's daughter) in Maryville, Tennessee feeding 35 hogs for the spring market in 1886. By the next year, Thomas returned to Boone County, Indiana and married my 2nd-great-grandmother Sarah Ellen Armstrong. Robert and Nancy eventually moved to Oklahoma.

Maryville Times, 17 Feb 1886.

The clipping below mentions "Lum Jones' father" - Joseph Jones. In 1894, Joseph renewed the subscription to the Maryville Times for his son Marion Columbus Jones, although "Lum" had moved to Oklahoma.

Maryville Times, 3 Jan 1894.

Maryville is located south of Knoxville. After his divorce from Amanda Irwin, Joseph returned to Jefferson County, Tennessee and married Martha Cordelia Hart.

Lake Day

Photo by Patrick Jones. Lake Murray, SC. 15 Jul 2018.

We spent the past weekend visiting family in Columbia, South Carolina. On Sunday, we took a much deserved break to relax on my brother-in-law's boat on nearby Lake Murray. The photo above is a view from the back of the boat as we motored to several islands during the day.

Source: Google Maps. Lake Murray, SC.

Dreamers

Photo by Patrick Jones. Art by Patrick Martinez, Los Angeles. 19 May 2018.

The art above by Patrick Martinez is from the Beyond the Streets exhibition in Los Angeles. I took this photo while at the exhibition in May. The work is a powerful reflection of the current times, full of negativity.

There is a bit of hope in this too. I am hopeful things in this country will change for the better, starting in November.