Mary Elizabeth Jones family

Mary Elizabeth Pipkin was born the year that the Civil War ended, in divided Missouri, to parents from Alabama.  Her father had fought for the Confederate States against our nation.  At age twenty-five, old enough to know better, she married a Pennsylvania man in the lumber business, Frank W. Jones.  Frank was the third child of Charles and Charlotte Jones and had two uncles who had fought for the North.

After four children, Frank left his family and disappeared about 1905.  The details are unclear and the remainder of the story of Frank Willard Jones is unknown.  Frank W. Jones was living in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1918 according to the obituary of his brother, J. Augustus Jones.

Frank W. Jones likely had been involved with his brother's purchase of timber land in Alabama which show up in J. Augustus Jones's estate.  Beyond land speculation, he may also have been a seasoned gambler like his brothers J. Augustus and Elmer.

Mary E. Jones and her four young children survived the abandonment and moved from Sabine parish, Louisiana (1910) to Arkansas (1920). She then followed her daughter to California's great northern forests near Mt. Shasta (1930).  Granny Pipkin left memories with the succeeding generations there.  In 1966, at a hundred and one years old, she passed away in the lumber town of Weed in Siskiyou county.

Her daughter Lola's descendants, the Scaife family, retain a couple of mementos from her life:  a family studio photograph and her marriage certificate (1890).

Front: Mary E. (Pipkin) Jones, 1865-1966; Gladys Irene (Jones) Hanchey, 1899-1980; and Frank W.  Jones, 1865-unknown.
Back:  Walter S. Jones, 1893-1958; Lola Jane (Jones) Scaife, 1895-1980; and Charley W. Jones, 1891-1975.