Our Aunt is HOME HURRAY.

To all in the family. Aunt came home to recover from a fall. Wishing her the very best and a quick healing for her peace of mind. Wishing the family support to be strong and know they are in our thoughts. Love and Blessings to you all.

JONES KiN ==== Some many years ago , Dad's cousin found us.

Many years back Donald Jones came to visit us with his wife. The line DAD had looked for for eons. Many weekends we would crawl into the truck and go slowly down the road reading the mail box names lookin for JONES. WE met many but we never found his Uncle or his cousins. Lots of really nice people though. See Dad's family split when they were very young. But he remembered visiting his cousins a couple of times. they lived in Iowa then. They went to visit them. Once when a cousin was very mean to his own sibling and thought it was very funny. Showing off to these new family members. It did not set well with Dad or his younger brother. Which helped for them to look for our side. Years later as adults both sides looked for their family that they lost in divorce and in anger. (Adults) Both boys remembered different stories and would tell us children with much sadness in thier voices. Luckily the cousin that came to visit was not the down line of the so unruly child of one of my Great Uncles. That was also sad because they did not know why they left Iowa and came to CA. Thankfully our Uncle Gerald was able to share the story of the events that caused the rift. One was our Grandad and his brother were racing horse and horse and buggy to the house. Going over the cattle guard one fell off the buggy and it broke his back. The other boy helped him to get to the house but his back was broken from the Cattle Guard on the bridge. The other incident before that was the visiting of the other brother and one of his family children doing something so sad I won't say what it was. But it was very painful and bodily harming. That child his wife told us carried the scars to his death. NO IDEA what ever possess children to do this type of thing. Fortunately the son with broken back shared a store with that brother and when things got worse they left Iowa and came to California. The brother our Grandfather went to WYOMING to live with cousins. They remained friends as best they could though of massive distance back then. Wife of cousin seriously injured said he forgave that other brother when they grew up. Since it was a family internal event it did not involve our side. Not the horse racing brother he stayed friends. To this day I can not remember which was on horse and whih was on buggy. LaMnte or Carl F. Great Uncle of ours and our Grandad. The other incident was when they were much younger and had traveled back to Iowa to see family. The boy when he grew up spent years looking for Uncle Gerald and Dad as I & Uncle Gerald was told by cousin's wife of, to say Thanks for what you did for me. It was implied that the one boy had serious consultations and forgave that brother his bodily harm. They actually lived together in later life. Sadly I did not get to meet him, I did meet the wife whom shared much with us here. The 2 boys were in a Adult home for the aged at that point. The boy with broken back lived in California and died a much younger death due to hardship and body discomfort from back being broken. He was decesed before DAD started to look for him sadly. Yesterday I located the photo Don and Flora took and sent us to share with family I will poat it here. IF I can figure how. Having commmunicated with the family of these people. Thankfully they overcame the worst and kept some communication. My brother went to a reunion for the kin in CA not far from him. Cousin Don and his exteneded family from Great Uncle Lamonte have had reunions I was hoping to attend but brother made one at least. Ray Dee Jones Jr is brother. He still lives closer to them than I. I married a serviceman and we are settled in San Diego, CA. Yes Don Jones was Lamonte's last born child and the thrill when family was found I can not tell you the feeling. God was good. I know that Lamonte Jones had children and their names. I was told some of the grand chidlren were Highway Patrol men that actually covered area where we lived in Sonoma Marin Co. I have talked to several of the descendants and would truly love to meet them in person before life ends. The same applies to those left in Iowa. What a great friendly caring group of cousins they have been in writing and talking. I want to go see The LITTLE BTOWN CHURCH in The Dale. That GGrandfather founded. So sad Cousin Charles Jones died before I got to meet him. I do talk to his daughters. Yes we can claim that story as fact. O yes we have a few of them in MINN and maybe Dakota's not yet found. Luckily one lived near in Fallbrook and we have shared times together she is now in AZ. IF any of this story sounds familiar and you are part of this family please get in touch with me. Dad would so loved to have known you. Susi Jones Pentico.. Dad was Ray Dee Jones Sr his Dad was Carl Fremont Jones his Dad was Calvin Fay Jones and Hannah Young Jones. Nashua Ia area. His father was Noyes Jones and Susan Madison Jones from NY to ILL to IA.

Father's Day Was HIP HIP HURRAY

Father's Day was Hip Hip Hurray, It actually covered 3 days. What a surprise that was. Dinner with Bob and Candy on Friday and great meal at Denny's. Saturday we had BBQ with Zack, BJ and Renee". Also Alan and Heather too. Zack cooked. Sunday was Fred and I . Candy brought over Pineapple Upside Down Cake. Which we had for breakfast this am with coffee. Thanks it was YUM YUM. All his children called and some of his grandkids came over or called also. HIP HIP HURRAH.

Our American Beginnings Everyone is Forgetting

The first oppressed people were the Indians that greeted us and helped us to survive. Still today they are not given the recognition they deserve and yes some did not deserve much recognition. Our Negroid race are fabulous people. But for reperations they need to seek it from Hollandd or Netherlands. They are the ones who bought those as slaves and sent them all over to make money and to cut back on the internal fighting that was upsetting their goals. In Africa, I do not think many have studied our past history especially of the world. WE do not owe the black??? enslaved people the Netherlands did it they owe us all something. Those who were shipped here were truly saved from a slavery they did not even precive . We in turned saved them from what those left behind has had to survive to live through. Many tribes did not survive these major upheavels in Africa. I read the paper today and they still are squabbling instead of attempting to work together and change everyones lives there. Amazing how beautiful this place must have been. Granted after early people bought slaves some were very mean and ugly but many were not mean or ugly. They were taken care of far better than those left behind. DO SOME HOMEWORK. Another thing is very few of us if any, are not not of a form of a mixed race. Formost I am an American but of many past descendants. Have you studied history? Do you realize how many countries the first people's kin migrated through and how the family changed constantly. Do you have any idea how many centuries we are have been hanging around? Have you done your CRI Genetics and learned more about your past, not your names but heritage? The last two thousand years has been semi well recorded. I have lived long enough to say massive major changes. Hurray the Negroid race has been recognized. The Indians still on Reservations and told what they can or can not do. Todays news said Negroid people were being recognized shame on them as journalists they did not do their homework Remebering if they, Indians hadn't helped the early Europeans we may not have survived to today. I can say I am proud to be part of many nations in my past including 3 tribes at least of Indians. I still have one I am looking for in Indian heritage. I am who I am and you are who you allowed yourselves to be. No one can make you be different. I know many well recived people that heritage came out of Africa. Most all can succeed if they try hard and our fellow man steps up and realizes we are all human beings. So far we have not found a a Martian or Venusian or other out of this world people here. All can move forward if they have manners, and earn others respect and do unto others as you wish done onto you. Having read the records of how Teague JONES was treated by the Mayflower people and then the Judge pardoned him for his deeds done which Judge said was appropriate due to the methods treated by them. Many quickly went to Rhode Island and north to Novia Scotia. We have a very mixed past and no one was perfect. Enjoy reading the National Geographic Magazine, The Archeology Magazine, Many books in History Section of Various Libraries throughout the USA. History abouds all about us. You have to keep your ears open and your eyes to see what is really around you. Not just what you perceive. I could not decide if I wanted Archeology or Teacher or Write as I graduated from HIgh School. I never took my finger off the three of them. Data talked about above was located in various books over eons of my lifetime. My latest read was The American Heritage Book of Indians, Dell Publishing Co. Inc., Copyrighted 1961 by American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc. 9th printing 1974. Reread: Without Indentures: Index to White Slave Children in Colonial Court Records. (Maryland and Virginia) Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph. D., Copyright 2013. Genealogical Publishing Company Much in the first book seems to not fit what we are being told today,. there are several pages regarding one of our ancestors, Alas we need to write our own stories as we go because the ground seems to change as time moves through. WE have many Doctors, Lawyers, Congresmen, Judges, writers, Teachers, etc. that come from this early group of people. Most that were sent to slavery away from Africa were leaders in their regions and were threats to the less successful tribes or groups, Yes they were intelligent and smart, So stop selling them short or yourself. But this happened in many other areas also.