Lady Book Favorite - MEB Jones

 I loved this page more than other. I felt that my great-great grandfather was speaking to me.

                                                                THE WISE OLD OWL

Lady Book Notes - MEB Jones

I didn't spend much time with these notes, but once again, I had to make copies because THEY ARE SO OLD! c. 1910

I titled them Lady Book because of the logo on the cover. 

List of People MEB Jones Mentions

 I decided to make a list of the people he had listed.  Many had addresses.  These people may or may not give us clues about M.E.B.

 W. H. Evans
Binger, Okla, Caddo County, RR No. 1
Lives 4 miles South of Binger on the Rock Island R.R.
Binger is a town in Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 672 at the 2010 census. It is the headquarters of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma, who were settled there in the 1870s.
 
W.E. Walden, Thackerville, Okla.
google search reveals that W.E. Walden was the father of Asa E. Walden,  went to Love County, Oklahoma close to Marietta (which would be near where M.E.B.'s son, Burwell lived)  from Collin County, Texas. in 1900. Asa served in the Legislature of Okla for six years, practiced law, District Judge, member of the Methodist Church of Marietta, friend of the common man, a copy of this resolution was sent to the Historical Society of the State of Oklahoma, a copy to the Historical Society of the State of Texas, and a copy to the family of Judge Walden.
Respectfully submitted,
B. W. Jones, J. W. Dixon, C.W.Cameron,J.S. Batson, C. C. Wilkins,O. E. English, W. J. Williams
THE BAR OF LOVE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA.(Committee)

MEB Jones Random Notes

 Random Notes Part 3

pages 4-5

 Page 4 (back) 

Difference between sin and crime.  God can not punish Sin in this life. Judgment falls upon all alike. These are not punishment. Sin cannot be judged at Death because there is no judge. Guide? and witness are both necessary to a fair trial. Cannot be at death because we are to live on.

 Page 5 (front)

Unbelief, the great obstruction to Christ's work. 2 All things in general are possible to God. But it is to him that believes as to particulars ??? I may not have correct translation

 Depravity not only weekness but inclined to evil  it is positive   Hence yea must be born again.

Page 5 (back)  what does it mean to be born again?
the whole stream of Humanity is corrupted by sin   Dr. Gambrell
Google Search http://baptisthistoryhomepage.com/gambrell.j.b.by.truett.html
finds a James Bruton Gambrell on the Baptist History
By George W. Truett, D. D.
Biblical Recorder, 1932
"Life Stories of Great Baptists"
A few dates: Born, l841; Converted, 1856; American Civil War, l861-1865; Ordained, 1867; Editor Baptist Record, 1877; Work In Texas Begins, 1896; Editor Baptist Standard, 1910; President Southern Convention, 1917-l921; London Conference and European Tour, 1920; Died (May 29), 1921.

Coo Coo Ca Choo

                                       

Wild About Texas: Mourning Dove

There are things that stir your memory.  Sometimes it’s a song, a place, or a special recipe, but for some reason, you are transported back into your past evoking strong feelings. I’m very much a nature person, and yesterday my memory was stirred by a sound…the sound a dove makes. I would call Mother every Sunday and she would often have her house open or even talk on her remote phone from her porch. She lived on a street named Mourning Dove, and the Mulberry trees in her backyard were often filled with dove. They would coo and coo, and I could hear them when I visited with her, either when I visited her home in Abilene or when visiting with her on the phone.

I had sometimes mused that it sounded like the Beatles song “I Am the Walrus”…goo goo g’joob,  But it was way better known from the movie “The Graduate” and a song sung by Simon and Garfunkel’s,  “Mrs. Robinson”.

Only here recently have I said that it sounds like the dove are saying coo coo ca choo. So yesterday when I was on my own back porch, a dove began to coo. Derek was with me and heard me say, “I love you, dovie.” (because they were making me feel close to Mother).  And in a few minutes he said, “ I love you, too,” because to him, that is what he could hear them saying in return.

 Well, this morning, I looked up this string of nonsense words…and in the urban dictionary, the meaning is derived from “Finding Nemo” and I connected with the urban meaning given…

“Everything is all right. No worries.”

MEB Jones Random Notes

 Random Notes Part 2 

Pages 2-4

Page 2 (back) Alfilerea Ariz., good for grazing

When I googled Alfilerea, the best guess would be that he misspelled Alfilaria defined as a weed grown for forage in the dry regions of the southwestern U.S. —called also pin grass. This makes sense because among the papers is an Abstract of Title for land in Progress City in Brewster Co., Texas.  (See later notes about this title.) I believe the names he has listed with addresses on these sheets may be tied to the selling/buying of this property in Brewster County.

J.W. Aden? in Hot Springs, H.A. Robb in Quanah

Page 3 (front) A.C. Parker seems to be another shoe order

M.E.B. then writes a quote as he seems forever preparing sermons.  "Doing right will often get men into trouble. Doing wrong never fails to get people into trouble. The people who get into trouble doing right always get out. The others stay in."   George Truett

Page 4 (front)  seems very random

Tomotoes  No.?  Big Boston   1    California   2     Salamander    4

There is a grocery expense list  Coffee, Transfer maybe money in bank, bed, cream, coffee again, car fair      total is 230

Ensissinger? L. G.  Rotan, Tex.

Page 3 (back)  C.S. Trotter, Charlie Trotter March 28, 1902  F, Elsie Trotter Oct 11, 1903  F , Oral Trotter  M Aug 31 1907..... (were these people and dates connected to those he saved?)

 Three sources of Strength 1 prayer 2 Holy Spirit  3 Christ himself

MEB Jones and His Notepads

RANDOM NOTES part 1

 In the old trunk, there were several notepads where Martin Ervin Brooks Jones recorded information. It seems that he always had a pad with him. Inside these notepads, I found a variety of information. Without anyone to give me any knowledge of what he recorded, I began researching some of the names and infomation listed. 

I will start with a flip book that only had 5 sheets that were written on. I tore them out and disposed of the notepad. It's always SO hard to get rid of things from the last turn of the century. 

I labeled these as Random Notes. As to the date of these notes, my guess would be around 1910/1920

I also wrote a transcription, trying my best to get it correct. Handwriting is always a factor in transcription. 

Page 1 (front) appears to be a list of people that M.E.B. was ordering possibly shoes for. It appears that he list the style # of the shoe, color, how many pairs, and price.  People he was ordering for: A.C.Parker, M.H. Jones (men,women,children), J.W. Wood, Joe Skipworth (children), J.C. Taylor?, 

Page 1 (back) M.E.B. has two addresses, one for W.H.Evans. The other for W.E. Walden

 Page 2 (front) List of people continues, J.E. Marbut?, Geo.M. Callum, Marrow? Roebuck, F.R. Lefre?, Rev. P.W. Eldredge