Frank Jones
Frank and Lizzie (Worth) Jones, 1940s
Grace, Lizzie, Gerald, Jennie (Jones) Jackson, unidentified woman seated in front of Jennie, unidentified man and woman, Frank Jones, Will Jones
Nellie (Worth) Simon, Walter Worth, Lizzie (Worth) Jones, Dewey Worth, Ed Worth, 1962
Almeria Cemetery, Almeria, Nebraska
FRANK JONES AND
ELIZABETH WILMOT (WORTH) JONES
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Grace remembers[1]:
"Daddy was a very quiet person. A man of few words you might say. Very even tempered. I don't know that I ever did recall him saying a cross word. He always was quiet and got along well with everyone. He was really a hard worker and he did everything the hard way, it seemed like. I think was a slow worker. Of course he and mom both were so I guess they were a good team. He was always busy doing something. He didn't ever have anything very modern. I sometimes think we could have had things a little better, mom could have, if he would have saw it that way, because she never did have a gas stove or refrigerator or wash machine except by hand power. I think that he could have managed it if he'd maybe wanted to but anyway we got along. We did have a power plant for electricity. He got batteries and then charged them up with a motor and that would furnish the electricity. He had the house wired and we did have electricity with the times some of the other people had. As for a vacation, later when we had a car, every August he'd get neighbors to help Uncle Walter with chores and we'd go to Camp Meeting several days and to (Church of God) convention in November."
Frank and Lizzie lived in the house they had built until his death on 22 June 1951. He was 73. He died at Aunt Nellie's house in Sargent. I recall my mother, Grace, saying that Frank and Lizzie went to Sargent to see the doctor for Frank's failing health and they stayed with Aunt Nellie who helped nurse him in his last days. He was buried in the Almeria Cemetery. After his death, Lizzie moved to Sargent and lived with her sister Nellie until 1953.
Both Grace and Gerald brought their families to live in the home Frank built at various times in their lives. Grace and her first husband George lived there a few years until George's death; Gerald and Doris raised their girls there before moving to Taylor in 1966; and Grace came back one more time with her second husband, Hugh, and the kids and lived there from 1968 to 1978. The house was bulldozed by the new owner after it was sold in the late 1990s.
After the death of her daughter Grace's husband, George Ferguson, she lived with Grace until February 1957 when Grace married Hugh Russell. Then she moved back to live with Aunt Nellie. Along with church and camp meetings, Grandma and Aunt Nellie enjoyed traveling to California, Colorado and Arizona to visit Nellie's daughters. In September 1979 Lizzie moved in with Grace and Hugh Russell in Sargent. She was very quiet in her older years but she always enjoyed seeing her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In late 1984, she went to live in the Willard Wittmuss home. The Wittmuss's cared for elderly people in their home. She lived there until she went into the hospital on February 1, 1985. She died February 3, 1985[2], at the age of 96 years and two months at the Sargent Hospital.
Her funeral was held at the Rhoad Funeral Home in Sargent. Grace was very close to her mother. Whether it was the flu or sickness brought on by grief, Grace was too ill to attend her mother's funeral. Lizzie was preceded in death by all eight of her brothers and three of her four sisters, her husband Frank, son-in-law George Ferguson, granddaughter Darlene and two great granddaughters, Melisa Ferguson and Amy Ferguson. In addition to her children and their spouses, Grace and Hugh Russell and Gerald and Doris Jones, she left 11 grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren and one great great grandson. She was also survived by her sister and it's safe to say her best friend, Nellie. Lizzie joined most of her brothers, parents and her Worth grandparents in the Almeria cemetery in Loup county.
Lizzie was born in a sod house with no electricity or indoor plumbing. She saw horses and wagons phased out when automobiles came in. She didn't fly in an airplane until she was in her 70s. She lived through two economic depressions, two world wars, with her brother Ed fighting in World War I, a women's right to vote given in 1920 when she was 32 years old, and men walking on the moon when she was 80. Babies were born at home and elderly parents died at home. The world she knew changed tremendously in her 96 years.
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Frank's middle name
Most likely John and Alvina didn't give their children middle names, at least not Frank and Jennie. I see on some online family trees that William may have had the middle initial of "C", and perhaps the middle name of Curtis. But according to his daughter Grace, Frank didn't have a middle name, but thinking that everyone should have one, he adopted the initial "F". When asked what the "F" stood for, he would chuckle and say, "Well, Francis, I guess. Frank Francis."
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