Recollections of Martin Harmon Jones' Children

My grandparents on my mother’s side were Joe Carroll Jones and Ava Ella McNair. They had 5 children, including my mother, Carolita Jones Quillin. Mother was most interested in helping me gather family information. Her brother, Martin Franklin Jones, was also interested in helping me throughout the years. There will be several Jones Family posts of the information gathered from them.

 Recollections by Martin Frank Jones 2013

These are memories of Martin Harmon and Mattie Bell's children

 William Albert Jones (1898-1956)

Joe Carroll Jones (1902-1972)

George Truett Jone (1908 -  )

Lucy Katherine Jones (1918 - 2003)

Martin Frank remembers sitting with Uncle Ab when he was real sick.  Albert was under an oxygen tent and the kids had to take turns sitting with him at night.  During one of the night stays, Albert asked Martin for a cigarette.  Martin gave him one and when Albert lit it, the whole cigarette went up in flames.

 Albert would always ask him what time it was.  Martin would tell him… “It’s 12:15.”  And Albert would say, “Damn Martin, that’s only 15 minutes later from what you said the last time.”  Evidently, that would go on all night.

 

George, Albert, and Hugh were all supported by Daddy (Joe Carroll).  All 3 drove trucks for Daddy.  Daddy owned the trucks and he then leased them to the State of Tx and did work for the State.  They worked on the highways, specifically Hwy 70 between Vernon and Lubbock.  George and Ab would tear up trucks.  Their trucks were always dinged up, overused and dirty.  They generally broke them down and those trucks always required a lot of repairs because they didn’t take care of them.   These trucks were capable of carrying a ton and a half (or about 3,000 pounds) of freight in their dump beds.  They would always overload them with over 4,000 pounds.  Hugh always took care of his truck.  His truck was always clean and well cared for.

George lived all over and ended up in Houston with an Auto Upholstery Shop

 

Albert had an icehouse in Crowell.  He lived under oxygen at home. When Albert died, Dr. Clark told Martin to go talk with the undertaker.  The undertaker told him that Ab’s lungs looks like the sole of a shoe.  Martin quit smoking after talking with the undertaker.  He had just bought a $1.00 carton of cigarettes and he worked at the Ford dealership there in Crowell.  When he went in to work, he asked his buddy if he wanted the cigarettes.  They guy said, “Sure”.  Martin handed them over and never smoked again.  It took him about 5 years to stop the urge, especially when someone else lit up.

George’s Kids:  Georgie Bell (oldest), Lonnie, Michael “Mike”

 

Hugh’s kids:  AC, Betty Joe, Eddie Hugh, Greta

 

Albert’s kids:  Jaunita (oldest & adopted), Sammye (still alive Fort Sill), Sue (died a long time ago), Billy Don (A farmer was putting in pastureland, getting rid of the mesquites.  There were stumps laying all around and he hired some kids to pick up the stumps.  Billy Don was riding in the back of the truck, fell out, and was killed.)

 

Lucy’s kids:  Donna oldest lived somewhere near Amarillo?; Cheryl and her husband took over the Dono’s butane business.

Left to right: Mattie Bell Bridges Jones, William Albert Jones, Lucy Katherine Jones Day, Joe Carroll Jones, Hugh Springfield Jones, George Truett Jones.