Documents: TEXAS GIRLHOOD: Our Family History

Mabra Jones and wife Sarah Lovelady, daughter of Rev James Lovelady and Nancy Linville (maiden name unproven) - this family settled in Dewitt and Lavaca counties area of Texas before 1850, eventually spreading out to places like Waco and Beaumont and Palestine. This album is dedicated to that family unit. Letters written by some of these family members, mostly Mary Jones, are included. These letters span a time from 1855 on through in the 1920s. They were transcribed and supplied to me by Leonard Meyer in the late 1990s. He was from Halletsville and a descendent of the Butts, Bounds, Coolie families. James Lovelady's daughter Jane died with a young family of her own. Her husband, Andrew Butts, stayed a "son" to the family, even after he remarried Susan Bounds. Susan became the beloved Aunt to the Jones children who most of these letters were written to. While the Jones children were still young, Sarah Lovelady, daughter of James, and sister to Jane, died at an early age. Mabra remarried Martha Ponton and had several more children. But it's through these letters that we get a good view of the whole family and indeed brings them all to life and allows us to share their memories.

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TEXAS GIRLHOOD

Written by Mary Anne "Nona" Stricker Sturgeon, daughter of Henry Stricker and Runie Moore, granddaughter of Mary Madden Jones Norton and 2nd husband, William C. Moore, written in 1930s, tells of her life growing up in predominantly Waco and various maternal and paternal family members.
Journal graciously provided by Nona's grandson, Kris Banvard, son of Mary Elizabeth Sturgeon and Roger Emil Banvard,and his wife Paula Deming. (d)

Date	Abt 1933
File name	Texas Girlhood.pdf
File Size	2.22m
Linked to	Almina "Allie" Chesnut; Anna Barbara Franz; Barbara (..) Franz; Andrew* Prather Jones; Cyrus Young Jones, Sr.; Ethel Mary Jones (Residence); George Washington Jones, Dr; Henry M. Jones (Residence); Mabra Chesnut Jones; Mary Madden Jones (Residence); Stephen Lovelady Jones (Residence); Susan Maria (or Mariah) Jones; Nellie Lewis; Runie Mable Moore; William Calhoun Moore (Other-Begin); Laura "Lena" Oldham (Residence); Martha M. Ponton; Annie Katherine D.C. Stricker; Eugene Nelson Stricker; Henry John Stricker, Sr; Herman Stricker (Residence); Mary Anne "Nona" Stricker; Walter Lamont "Monte" Stricker (Residence); Walter Werner Stricker; Walter William Stricker (Residence); Walter William Stricker (Death)
Albums	Mabra Madden Jones and James Lovelady Families

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