Todays "Folk Tale"

This is my grandfather JEWELL JONES and step grandma LEAH . They lived in Huntington, Utah.

Jewell is the father of my dad, Thomas Benjamin Jones (1948).I never had a chance or choice to

connect and get to know this side of my family, except for few occasions, such as funerals. I do remember one time going over to their house i was maybe 8 years old. In the living room grandpa had several music instruments. He played the mandolin for me, and i thought it was the greatest thing. He also played the harmonica, being so young it was a new thing for me to see, and I could not figure out how in the world how he made it sound so amazing. Grandma Leah played the organ.She also had a beauty salon set up in her garage, that was a huge thing for me to know. She is one of the reasons I decided to attend beauty school in my later years.

Grandpa died in 1984, I was 10 years old. I remember going to the funeral , I felt so out of place for not really knowing anyone else , except for Jewells brother Pete and wife Jean. I wish I knew more about my family. I have introduced my children to the family members I do know and we have been attending family reunions.

assorted photos

I have more information about these photos. Please contact me with any questions/comments.

           Just Folks


I am like him, so they say,
Who was dead before I came.
Cheeks and mouth and eyes of gray
Have been fashioned much the same.
I am like her, so they say,
Who was dead ere I was born,
And I walk the self-same way
On the paths her feet have worn.
There is that within my face
And the way I hold my head
Which seems strangely to replace
Those who long have joined the dead.
Thus across the distance far
In the body housing me
Both my great-grandparents are
Kept alive in memory.

Edgar A. Guest 1934

          DEAR ANCESTOR


Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.
Author Unknown

           FAMILY JEWEL


I hold in my hands a treasure so rare,
I close my eyes and imagine I'm there,
When she wrote each name with care,
Not knowing with me some day she'd share.
Could she have known what a jewel it would be?
That it would be something I waited to see?
That one hundred years later the Bible I'd hold,
That in it's pages more that God's story is told.
I imagine she was proud of her family,
For what greater gift could there be,
Did she imagine the family to come?
That I would be from the family of her son?
This family heirloom I will handle with care,
So that in another hundred years it will be there,
For my great great grandchildren may it be,
A gift they are searching for to add to the family tree.

Who Shares Your Birthday?

YEAR WHO DATE PLACE OF BIRTH


1496 John FOOTE Royston England
1500 Helen WARREN Bassingbourn England
1523 Robert FOOTE Royston England
1527 Helen Waler Bassingbourn England
1553 Richard FOOTE Shalford England
1554 Joane BROOKE 18 Jun London England
1561 Thomas DEMING France
1565 Mrs.Thomas DEMING England
1568 John CHENEY Bennington England
1578 Elizabeth GILBERT Shalford England
1585 Jonathan DEMING 18 Oct France and Shalford near Colchester England
1593 Nathaniel FOOTE Shalford England
1600 Elizabeth DEMING Colchester England

Nathaniel and Elizabeth were our FIRST ancestors to come to America

1605 John CHENEY 30 Jun Roxburg Scotland
1608 Martha PARRAT Roxburg England
1627 Robert FOOTE 8 Dec Wethersfield Conn
1641 Sarah POTTER 22 Aug Wallingford Conn
1644 Sarah Bailey(Bayley) 17 Aug Newberry Mass
1657 Tabitha BISHOP 14 Sep Branford Conn
1660 Nathaniel FOOTE 13 Jan New Haven Conn
1670 Daniel CHENEY 31 Dec Newberry Mass
1678 Hannah DUSTIN 22 Aug HAVERHILL MASS

Check out Hannah Dustin of Haverhill Mass onlline, very interesting story

1695 Sarah LITTLEFIELD 4 Dec Braintree Mass
1699 Daniel CHENEY 16 Jul Newberry Mass
1702 Moses FOOTE 13 Jan Branford Conn
1710 Mary BOYNTON 8 Jan Plymouth Conn
1726 Joseph CHENEY 7 Feb Wells Maine
1735 Roccas STEWART 2 Jun Wells Maine

Stewart is a royalty line

1740 Ebenezer FOOTE 21 May Branford Conn
1757 Eunice HUBBARD 13 May Maine
1762 Evan TIMOTHY Cilcennen Wales
1763 Benjamin CHENEY 18 May Wells Maine
Benjamin JONES 9 Jun Deleware NY
Mirium RUSS 12 Oct Deleware NY

Mirium Russ was killed by indians she is buried in Pitkin Ohio

1768 David FOOTE 7 Aug
1771 Rachel CARR 4 Mar
1775 Thomas Cox 5 Dec
1785 Edward Grant PYLE 22 Sep
1787 Mehitable WELLS 31 Jan
         Aaron CHENEY 14 Jul
1789 Rosanne Mary McMAHON 4 Oct
1795 Sarah SINGLETON 18 May Bolton England
1797 Benjamin JONES 24 Feb Chechosing NY
1798 Richard MINCHEY Jackson Tenn
         John TAYLOR 18 Dec Bolton England

1803 Jehu COX 5 Sep Knox KY

(zhee-hoo)

1808 Sarah Riddle PYLE 22 Jul Breckenridge KY
1811 Jacob DeGRAW 15 Jul Mendon NY
1814 Sophia DUTTON 26 Aug Hartford Vt
1817 Warren FOOTE 10 Aug Dryden Ny

Warren Foote Journal

1822 David TIMOTHY 13 May Tannygraig Wales
1824 Pleasant MINCHEY 29 Feb On HighlandCross Road Jackson Tenn
         Jane MORGAN Tannygraig Wales
1825 Rosannah COX 23 Jan Salt Creek Indiana
         Elam CHENEY 16 May Freedom Ny
1828 Martha TAYLOR 27 Nov Bolton England
1834 Emaline DeGRAW 16 May Alexandra Ny
         Margeret HOWELLS 8 Oct Aberdale Wales
1841 Eliza Marie IVY (IVIE) 29 Mar Caldwell Tenn
1850 Benjamin JONES 10 Jul
1853 John Griffiths TIMOTHY 28 Jan Aberdale Wales
1857 Emmaline MINCHEY 4 Mar
         Sarah Jane CHENEY 7 Sep
1859 James Franklin FOOTE 22 Jun
1874 John PERLA 16 Jan Pravatina Yugoslavia
1875 Antoinette KORAN Cleveland Ohio
1876 Martha Ellen JONES 14 Apr Fairview Utah
1877 Elam Lucien JONES 1 Jan Indianola Utah
         James KORAN Cleveland Ohio
1878 Castle Celestial JONES 15 Dec Huntington Utah
1879 Joseph KORAN Cleveland Ohio
1880 Benjamin JONES 7 Sep Huntington Utah
1881 Anna KORAN Cleveland Ohio
1882 Sarah Jane JONES 10 Sep Huntington Utah
1884 Sarah Francis FOOTE 12 May Emery Utah
         David Hadlock JONES 29 Aug Huntington Utah
1886 Rosanna JONES 1 May Huntington Utah
         Frank KORAN Cleveland Ohio
         Amelia MILJAVAC 19 Dec Malapaka Provatina Yugoslavia
1888 John KORAN 24 Jan
         Samuel Oren JONES 12 Apr Huntington Utah
         John KORAN Cleveland Ohio
1890 Jehu JONES 2 Jan Huntington Utah
1891 Thomas Howells TIMOTHY 5 Jun Cleveland Utah
         Hetty JONES 7 Dec HUntington Utah
1892 Mary TOKE Cleveland Ohio
         Edward KORAN Cleveland Ohio
1893 Heber JONES 19 Nov Huntington Utah
1894 George KORAN
1895 Zelma JONES 7 Jan Huntington Utah
1898 Nancy(Jenny)DAVIS 9 May
1905 James Albert JONES 14 Dec Huntington Utah
1907 Cecil Irene JONES 15Oct Huntington Utah
1909 Mara (Mary) PERLA 12 Mar Provatina Yugoslavia
1911 Sarah Emmaline JONES 2 Jul Huntington Utah
1912 Warren E JONES 16 Dec Huntington Utah
1914 Lenna JONES 27 Dec Huntington Utah
1917 Martha Maria JONES 25 Mar Huntington Utah
1919 Jewell F JONES 4 Aug Huntington Utah
1920 Frank PERLA 21 May Aspen Colo
1921 Joseph Andrew KORAN 22 Sep Penninsula Ohio
1922 Rose Francis Perla 30 Jun Aspen Colo
1924 Peter Pleasant JONES 30Apr Huntington Utah
1926 Eva PERLA 15 Feb Aspen Colo
1929 Joseph R PERLA 4 Dec Aspen Colo
1948 Thomas Benjamin JONES 4 Nov North Bend Oregon
1950 Francis Evadine JONES 17 Sep Price Utah
1953 Charles Edwin JONES 24 Dec Price Utah
1954 Kathryn Anne KORAN 15 Aug Price Utah
1955 Jenny Avoline JONES 1 May Price Utah
1957 Lenna JONES 29 Jan
         Christian Lee JONES 6 Mar Price Utah
1958 James Val JONES 29 Mar Price Utah
1960 Glada Renee JONES 5 Dec Price Utah

Christian and Glada took the last name of LARSON later on

A House I Once Knew

This is a poem I had found online today and wanted to share it with you.
It was written by Leo VanMeer 1907-2006
       There are mars on the doors and walls
        Its rooms are empty and wide.
       Here and there is a broken pane
        Where no night wind creeps inside.
       The front porch has fallen to ruin
         With vines in possession there.
       A shed is tumbled and strewn
         And rubbish is everywhere.
       Somehow it softens in the moonlight
         And my fancy wanders free.
       That old house is more than a house
         It once was home to me.
       I can see a place by the window
         Were the firelight once played inside.
       I can picture the porch as it use to be
         And grounds so clean and wide.
       Doors with well-oiled hinges
          Let in our willing feet.
       With everything in place as it should
          And everything trim and neat.
        I see in mellowed reflection
          until years have changed it to be
        A house with a memory : its more than a house
          It once was home to me.
        I'd give so much to live again
          In that house when it was young.
        Then it knew our laughter and tears,
           With its memory only begun.
        I was unwise to have left it, I know
            All I got for my pains
       Was a heap of things I thought worthwhile
            And desire to be back again.
        It might be made home again, who knows?
        I watch the moonlight slant through a tree,
        And know that old house was more then  a house
              It once was home to me.

Tell me your stories

To every one in my family, send me an email with a family story. It can be of anything you remember, funny,sad, interesting, etc....I  do ask you keep in mind this is a site young ones will be able to access too. So please nothing too adult.
Can be you growing up, mischievous moments, what do you remember about me?, your parents- how'd they meet? just whatever.....
 If you have a photo relating to the story attach it, who it is of, what details you know of the photo.

Minchey's

Left photo: Hyrum Minchey, who would be my great great Uncle. Right Photo:Calvin Minchey, Hyrum's father, My great great great Uncle.

My paternal grandparents

My grandparents : Joyce Avelon Timothy Jones and Jewell F Jones while in Oregon, the dog was named Peanuts.

Logging

Top photo: Uncle Que sitting on logging cart. On the back is written by uncle Peter Pleasant Jones, " During the years 1940-43 we were getting out timber up Huntington Canyon we had a sawmill and also hauled props for the miners. During this time we built 2 of these carts to drag/haul the timbers down about a mile and 1/2 out of Horse Creek Canyon in Huntington Canyon I and my brother Que worked hard but enjoyed every minute of it."

Translation question

I have recently come across a letter written in another language, I presume slovak
and have tried a couple online sites to translate it, however I have had no luck.
Previously I posted a photo with writing in what seems to be the same language.
 If ANYONE out there can help or give suggestions please send a comment. or email me at Theresa_Weeks09@yahoo.com   thank you. I am not comfortable posting it
on here at this time.

This was my favorite book as a child. Full of interesting stories and wonderful pictures. This is one thing I have held onto all these years. Amazing huh? and its still in pretty ok condition haha.
 Theresa

Jones family reunion 2010

 This years reunion was touching to me. I had gotten my dad Ben to agree to attend.
My dad hadn't seen his family in several years. IN fact I had only met few relatives
a couple times in my life... Until I got an invitation to last years reunion. At which
everyone had asked where dad was... I told them he couldn't be there. The fact was,
and i dont know all the details, there had been a falling out years ago, due to a woman
my grandfather married... From the sounds of it she hadn't been very nice at all.
 This year, my dad came to Huntington Utah with me, where he grew up, it took a bit to
find just where we needed to be, luckily I recognized Lenna from last year. As dad
stepped out of my car she said "I just KNOW you have to be a Jones boy! Look at you"
I smiled and said hello, and she looked at me, then at my dad.... "Ben? BENNY!!!!" Lenna
was excited. Big hugs.. We walked in and only a few were there at the time.
 In uncle Petes letters he talked about how wonderful it would be to see Ben again, and
he missed him very much. When I had responded to that letter I wasn't sure if dad would
be there... Dad stepped into another room in the building we were in, and as he did I saw
Uncle Pete and Aunt Jean walk in, I walked quickly over to give hugs and hellos.
 After a minute or so I was asked about my dad being there, but before I could say
anything, Uncle Pete's eyes lifted at the sight of my dad walking up to us. He got the biggest
smile, oh he was so happy to see my dad, I thought he was going to jump up and down. !!
A short time later cousin Dixie walked in, this is the first time i had met her. She is also a very
warm and welcoming person, very sweet. She saw my dad and was so happy she had tears
streaming down her face. It was very touching..... And a bit sad for me, to see how much they
loved and missed my dad. And to see what a wonderful family I had and never got the chance to know.
 Well, I have that chance now to make up what I can. And I will take every oppertunuty to
keep in touch, visit, and attend future reunions.

Jones Reunion 2010

My great grandparents Benjamin and Sarah Frances (Foote) Jones

How Takoobuddy got her name

It seems to have become tradition in our family to have a grandmother with a unique nick name.....
My grandmother Rose Koran, is called Takoobudy. (talk-o-buddy). The reason being as i was told by my mom Kathryn, is because when my older brother, Tommy, was learning to talk, his word for grandma came out as "TALK" (never figured out why, i just always figured he was a dork. ha ha ) One day Tom, called to her, asking for a cookie or something, then he said Talk oh buddy Pleeeeease. And the name just stuck.
 My mother got her nick name , Zena, from my son, Sage, while watching his favorite t.v. show at the time....
ZENA: Princess Warrior  (it's like the Hurculis stories-Mythical). They would often have sword fights together.

The baby

During a visit last summer to Utah, my mom took me around to see where my grandparents lived in Kenilworth. Still with very little to the town there seemed to be tons of memories, and alot of history to learn.
 Papa and Takoobuddy, (Joe and Rose Koran), were married in Kenilworth, and had a very small living area. Papa Joe worked in the mine there and lived in the housing provided by the company. I got to see the "SCRIPT store" they were to do the shopping at. Script was something this coal company provided instead of direct pay we know today. Out side this store was a bulletin board, with message's and daily work schedule to see if you were on shift that day or not...... The story I am about to repeat here came from my grandmother, Rose.... "Your uncle Tom was born in the hospital in Kenilworth, did you know that?" I said yes, mom told me of that and showed me the building the hospital was, which is now a house. She got a sad look on her face and said, "When I was a little girl, not very old at all, my mom was going to have another baby... She was too weak to go to the hospital and sent dad to get the doctor. At the time, the doctor was at his house so my dad went there to find him. And when he told the doctor a baby was about to be born, and needed to come quick, the doctor asked my dad if he was working that day. When dad said 'no,not today.'
 That stupid doctor told him, You go home and help your wife, I will not help you if you are not working.
"Well, the baby died, it was so tiny it could fit in my hands. We couldn't even give it a proper grave, so my dad took the baby and buried it in with my uncle Pete. I still hate that doctor for that!....(pause) I don't know what happened to him , he left to somewhere, I dont' know where he went----TO HELL PROBABLY!!!"
  My eyes got huge, I could not ever imagine those words from my grandma, as angry as I had seen her before, she never said anything like that about anyone in front of me before.

Swimming lessons

I recently spoke with my grandmother Rose (Perla) Koran, she was in the hospital with pneumonia at the time. During our visit my kids , Sage and Macie, went back to the hotel to go swimming. My grandma, who we call Takoobuddy, asked me if I was going too. I told her I haven't learned to swim. She admitted she couldn't either. But she remembers one day of long ago and wanted to tell me the story...
  "When we were kids, both mom and dad knew how to swim. They wanted all of us to learn, but we didn't want to. One day we went out on a boat for the day , when my mother stood up and put her arms out , and tilted side to side making the boat rock so much that all us kids fell into the water! My mom laughed and laughed.  And we needed to figure out how to get to the side or back in the boat... I hated that, and would never go on a boat again."  

Harriet Beecher Stowe

 Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe, a book about anti slavery published in 1852.  she is my grandmother in my ancestory line on my father's side. I will post a pedigree chart later.

July 2009

Me with my mom July 2009

Me with my dad July 2009

My beautiful niece and gorgeous nephew

                                                      October 2009

Davis,Timothy,Tucker,Thayne

Ed, Francis, and Ben Jones

                                                             Ben is my dad

Grandpa Jewell and Leah Jones

My kids in 2009

Unknown

Rose, Eva, Amelia and John Perla

Village in Provatina Yugoslavia

Photo above is John or Joseph Miljavac, believed to be  nephew of Amelia Miljavac Perla.

Peczuh's

My grandpa Joe Koran

My mother

Kathryn Koran at age 4 Utah, and age 35.

July 1946

Joseph Perla holding Tom Koran

Benny

My grandfather Joe Koran's best friend Benny. I have no last name on him at this point.

Great Grand ma Amelia Miljavac Perla

Amelia Perla on left side, unknown next to her.

Aunt Eva Perla

My great grandparents and oldest brother. Price City Cemetary , Utah

I am not sure what is written on the back of this photo. It is in Slavic.  It was sent from Yugoslavia to my Great grandparents.  I tried to translate it and all that made sense was Karle is going to Ivana Bozica wedding.  ~~No clue at this time who is in the photo.~~

Peczuh's

My Great-Grandparents

John and Amelia PERLA

Mary Crnic

Mary Toke Koran

John Koran

Kenilworth Utah

First home of Joseph and Rose Koran.... Photo 2 is the Kenilworth Special, hauling coal.

Amelia Perla

Amelia Miljavac PERLA

I found this recipe in a cookbook I found and had to try it...
It is called                 APPLES and ONIONS
                                 An old time recipe by Laura Ingalls Wilder

 Its very easy to make and very good.

                              4-6 apples unpealed sliced
                               about a pound bacon chopped
                              1-2 onions sliced
                              1/4 C brown sugar
        In a skillet heat about 2 tbs oil. On medium heat ... in layers ~Add in onion slices, cover with apples, top with brown sugar . Stir only to keep from burning, cook until onions tender. Stir and serve warm.

My great-great-great grandpa Benjamin Jones Garlough Cemetary Pitkin Ohio

MY great greatgrandfather Garlough Cemetary Pitkin Ohio

Benjamin Jones was married to Miriam Russ, she was killed by indians. Her grave is next to his, but the stone was broken and had been removed.

Wordless Wednesdays

I realize today is Wednesday but I just had to update a couple things. I do have alot of information on each side of my family, and I am trying to organize it . I promise it will be on here, I just want to make sure it looks good before I post it all. I ask for patients, as I am still going thru all the items I have . And I promise I will start doing better on here. At the moment I am going over the pedigree/family charts I have , and processing a way to post them where they are more viewable.
Also I ask any and all of you with more information, photos, stories, anything, to please let me know and I will add them as well.
Thank you
Theresa

Wordless Wednesdays

Thomas Benjamin Jones home from bootcamp USMC, with is mom Joyce and dad Jewell

Thomas B Jones returning from USMC boot camp

My dad Thomas B Jones

Thingy Thursday

This picture is of Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind" also drawn by me ~Theresa~ by looking at a photo.