tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-06-11:913346 A never ending journey... dee_burris 2012-07-26T01:08:20Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-06-11:913346:119495 2012-07-26T01:08:20Z 2012-07-26T01:08:20Z public 7 This is a death certificate for Sarah "Sallie" Pettit Jones.<br /><br />I cannot make out the name of the cemetery, shown in the lower right-hand corner of the document.<br /><br /><center><a href="http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/sharpchick/Family%20photos/Historic%20Documents/?action=view&amp;current=SarahPettitJonesdeathcert.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/sharpchick/Family%20photos/Historic%20Documents/SarahPettitJonesdeathcert.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></img></a></center><hr />I've thought J A R something Graveyard...<br /><br />Any thoughts?<br /><br /><img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dee_burris&ditemid=119495" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-06-11:913346:96470 2011-10-04T23:34:22Z 2011-10-04T23:37:30Z public 5 It was a cold January morning earlier this year when I finally connected the dots on <a href="http://dee-burris.dreamwidth.org/25815.html">Robert Lee Jones,</a> and realized he was my grandfather's first cousin.<br /><br />When I wrote that entry, I was curious about whether he married and had children.<br /><br />He was married - twice.<br /><br />The first time to Lutie J Lyster/Lister.<br /><br /><center><a href="http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/sharpchick/Family%20photos/Historic%20Documents/?action=view&amp;current=RobertLeeJonesMarriagerecord.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/sharpchick/Family%20photos/Historic%20Documents/RobertLeeJonesMarriagerecord.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></img></a></center><br /><br />They married in Pope County on 12 Jul 1914.<br /><br />Although the marriage record clearly spells Lutie's surname as <i>Lyster,</i> her death record in the Arkansas Death Index spells it Lister. That could be a misspelling by whomever created the death certificate or the informant.<br /><br />I can't find her before her marriage to Lee. She died on 11 Jun 1942 in Sebastian County, where Lee was a supervisor at the Ft Smith Post Office.<hr />Lee married again, on 13 Sep 1942 to Grace I Schoeffe. She was 42, so I would not be surprised if her surname was from a previous marriage.<br /><br /><a href="http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/sharpchick/Family%20photos/Historic%20Documents/?action=view&amp;current=RobertLeeJonessecondmarriage.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/sharpchick/Family%20photos/Historic%20Documents/RobertLeeJonessecondmarriage.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></img></a><hr />At the time of my January post, I wondered if there were descendants of Robert Lee Jones who would be interested in exchanging information.<br /><br />I haven't found any kids for him. I found Lee and Lutie in the 1920 census in Fort Smith, and there were no children living with them then. I haven't yet found him in the 1930 census.<br /><br />Lee died on 28 Jul 1957 in Sebastian County, and he and Lutie are buried in Forest Park Cemetery in Fort Smith. I did not find a Find A Grave entry for Grace in that cemetery.<br /><br />So now I am even more intensely curious about the man who obviously had such a close relationship with my grandfather, his first cousin, but who seems to have not had a family of his own...<br /><br />Ordering the death records will be next...<br /><br /><img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dee_burris&ditemid=96470" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments