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Louvernia Bea "Verna" Garrett Jones

7 Jan 1865 – 12 Oct 1895

Birth7 Jan 1865
Death12 Oct 1895
CemeteryWood Cemetery
Jonesboro , Coryell County , Texas , USA
Added byRuss Teer U.S. ARMY (disabled vet) on 06 Oct 2012
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Daughter of: Michael Pleasant Garrett #96351797 & Martha Patsy (Jones) Garrett #181926288 Added by Contributor: (47394835) Spouse: Bedford B. Jones, Jr. Children: Verna Bea Jones, b. 24 Nov 1892, Jonesboro, Coryell Co TX; died 10 Mar 1976, place unknown. Minnie Lee Jones, b. 4 Jul 1894, Jonesboro, Coryell Co TX; Esta Lena "Babe" Jones, b. 11 Sep 1895, Coryell Co TX. Came to TX from TN with her sister, Sarah C. Garrett, who later married Marion Winningham from Overton Co., TN, in Comanche Co., TX. Louvernia died when Lena Esta was one day old. I now quote from a letter from Thelma McKinney, granddaughter of Louvernia, and Lena Esta's daughter: "I'm sure that by the time Louvernia was expecting Mama, or even before that, she saw that she had made a grave mistake in marrying Bedford, an older man with four children. She and Rebecca Todd (A.J.'s mother) were neighbors and friends. Louvernia realized that she might die when her last child was born--perhaps just a premonition--and she asked Rebecca to promise that if she died, Rebecca would take her three little ones, and Rebecca promised. Louvernia was from a fairly well off familly in TN, and I'm sure she wanted better than Bedford could provide for her children. "It is said that when the time came for Rebecca and James J. Todd to take the three little girls, they decided not to take Bee, as she was three years old, and would probably miss her mother. At any rate, they left her behind. The three sisters did not see each other again until 1922. Uncle Willie Jones--oldest child of Sarah Ray and Bedford B. Jones, Jr., remembered when Minnie and Mama ("Babe") left home with the Todds. Bedford and Sarah's oldest daughter was Lucy, and Minnie loved her dearly. She (Minnie) could walk, and when she was led away from the older children, she waved and said, "Bye, Lukey." Uncle Willie used to cry and talk about the little girls, but strangely, no one bothered to record any Jones family history." "I think it was almost unheard of at that time to tell foster children that they were adopted. "When Minnie and Babe were about 9 and 10, or 10 and 11, the Todds moved to New Mexico, where they both married in later years. In about 1920-21, their half sisters in Coryell Co., TX, put a query in a farm newspaper, and my mother's mother-in-law read it and wrote the Jones girls. Eventually, my family and Aunt Minnie & family went to meet their half sisters and brother, and their own sister, Bee. I think that was in 1922. Grandpa Jones died in 1924."

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