I'm participating in the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge started by Amy Johnson Crow, professional genealogist. Each week there is a new prompt to use as a theme.
Frank & Lizzie (Worth) Jones
Lizzie Worth and Frank Jones, my mother's parents, met each other "close to home."
Lizzie was busy helping her mother, writing and receiving postcards, helping with the garden and chores. Who knows what she thought about her life. Was she happy to be an adult living with her parents? Human nature hasn't changed over the generations, and I suspect Lizzie wanted a husband, children, and a home of her own. Then one day, when she was probably about 31 years old, an age at that time to be considered an old maid, Lizzie met Frank. "First time I ever seen him he was coming around the corner of a house someplace and he had a pipe in his mouth."
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In about 1919 Frank moved to Loup county and bought the place his children and grandchildren knew as the Jones ranch. In the 1920 census, Frank's nearest neighbors were Perry Dye, John Strohl and George Worth. He was 42 years old and single. Frank lived two miles east of the Worth family. And at some point, he walked around the corner of a house, smoking a pipe, and saw equally single Lizzie Worth. Was it love at first sight? Well, we'll never know, unless another grandchild has "the rest of the story" and they'd like to share it.
Excerpt from my website: https://www.ecstaticgreenleaves.com/jones-frank-1877-1951-01
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