![]() This four generation photo shows my great-great-grandmother, Nancy Adelia (Boyles) McCune holding her oldest great-grandchild, Robert Eldon Jones. Also pictured are my great-grandmother Cora (McCune) Pace and Cora's daughter Fay (Pace) Jones [1]. Robert Eldon Jones was born 16 Feb 1917 [2], so this photo must have been taken a few months after that. Nancy was a very young great-grandmother at only 56 years old! She was 15 when she married William Henry McCune on 29 Jan 1876 in Black Hawk County, Iowa [3]. A few months later, she and her new husband moved to Texas, a trip that took several weeks by covered wagon. By that time, Nancy was pregnant with her first child and suffered from morning sickness throughout the trip [4]. That child, Cora, was born on 11 Jan 1877, when Nancy was 16 [5]. Nancy gave birth to a total of 12 children, but only 5 survived to adulthood [6]. Nancy became a grandmother at the age of 33, when Cora gave birth to her first child [7]. Fay (Pace) Jones, was Nancy’s third grandchild, but the first to have a child of her own and make Nancy a great-grandmother. [1] Photograph (handwritten information on back), privately held by Teresa Shippy [2] Ancestry.com. Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013), Ancestry.com, Record for Robert Eldon Jones. [3] FamilySearch.org. Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992, [4] Myra Ruth (McCune) Smith, interview by Ardis (Smith) Fleenor, 1981; transcript privately held by Teresa Shippy. [5] Footnote.com. Death Certificate of Cara Mae Pace (sic) [6] Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line], Census Place: Tulia, Swisher, Texas; Roll: T624_1592; Page: 13B; Enumeration District: 0211; FHL microfilm: 1375605 [7] Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line].
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4/2/2016 12:53:32 pm
Welcome to geneabloggers!! My blog is also new today. We have something in common - our blogs will have the same blogversaries. Maybe we should follow each other.
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4/2/2016 02:13:26 pm
Thank you, Grant! Congratulations on your new blog too! I like the focus on your ancestor's journal.
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