Remembering Martin Harmon Jones and Mattie Bell

 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 from Martin Frank Jones 2013

Martin remembered that Mattie Bell made the best tea cakes.

 Martin Harman had a cellar…at first it was a dirt cellar with shiplap top (boards overlapping one another).  Then he had a cellar with brick sides and a cement top and floor.  Martin Harmon had a brick he loosened and stored his money there. When he died, it caused a split in the family because all of them except for Pappy wanted to split the money.  Martin Harmon had a grocery bill that he had run up and Pappy wanted to pay off that debt.  This made everyone mad; so eventually, they split the money, but Pappy wouldn’t have any part of the money because of the problems it had created.  Then Pap went and paid the bill out of his pocket.

Martin Frank remembers not being treated very well by Pappy's sister, Lucy, later in life.

 “They were strange people. When I took Mimi to Hale Center for Greta’s funeral, they all (Lucy, Dono, Lora Lee, etc.) ignored Ava (Mimi).  I felt so uncomfortable and wanted to leave, but Mimi insisted on staying. Another time, Mimi wanted to go see Lucy Day and Doris (Mimi's daughter) advised against it.  Mimi went anyway, and no one answered the door, yet Mimi could see someone looking out the window."

My thoughts: Strange what/how people react when estates are settled. 

Martin Harmon Jones and Mattie Bell Bridges Jones 

1946