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My grandfather was an unusual man. Realized after he was dead how little I knew about him. He was brought up in a small town, Walton, KY. The family came from Ontario with three young boys in tow. When he was under three his father William Peter Jones died. This left, Rachel Clark Jones, to rear the smaller children she had by herself. Children ranged over twenty years of her life. To my knowledge William and Rachel did not lose any children. All the children were hard workers. Richard (Dick) Mann Jones worked hard to become a doctor. After his graduation from the University of Louisville, he stayed at one practice on Broadway his whole life in Louisville, KY. He was an avid gambler, loving poker and race horses. Every Monday night and Thursday afternoon and night he played poker at the house on Hepburn Ave. I would help put the sheet on the table and count the chips. There were always eight. Doctors and one pharmacist. As he married later in life, for those days, he and wife Leah Smith only had one child, my mother Helen Atwood Jones. My grandmother once said you should marry two doctors. One to make the money and one to do the loving as they don't do both. Believe he had a weakness for women, especially widows and orphans. He would never send a widow a bill regardless.
When I was growing up I spent many days and sometime weeks at their house. I never saw him quarrel or say a curse word. The times we spent together were on the front porch before supper. He taught me all the bones in the body. Later when I wanted money to go to town he would give a penny at a time. Each for a bone or muscle I had learned. How I wish I had asked questions about his life and parents. He never mentioned his mother or father. I did have the privledge of knowing two of his brothers and his one sister. We would drive to Walton when I was small. In those days he was the only one that visited them as I never remember his brothers coming to our house. Dr. Asa was ill and his other brother , Robert Weldon, was the local pharmacist in Walton.
Sunday was the family day and we would drive around the city. He would always get us a cold custard before we came home. It tasted like frozen yogurt does today.
He loved to smoke cigars an no bug would dare to bite him.
April 6, 2006 while checking records at the Old Baptist Hospital I found out he was the attending physician at my Mother's birth. She was born at home in the old house on East Broadway. Maybe that is the reason my grandmother only had one child!
My great grandmother, Tiletha A Russell Smith and my great grandfather George L Smith were witnesses at the wedding of Leah E Smith and Dr. Richard Mann Jones.
When he had his stroke a driver would take him to his office. He died a year after my grandmother, Leah.
I learned two sayings from him. When he would refer to one of my boyfriends he would comment. "He looks as if he were dry and put up wet." It was years before I knew it refered to a horse. The other was "That is every cat in the alley". I still use the expression when all posibilities for a subject have been exhausted.
He would never eat anything left over and we were served in the dining room up until he was ill.My grandfather was an unusual man. Realized after he was dead how little I knew about him. He was brought up in a small town, Walton, KY. The family came from Ontario with three young boys in tow. When he was under three his father William Peter Jones died. This left, Rachel Clark Jones, to rear the smaller children she had by herself. Children ranged over twenty years of her life. To my knowledge William and Rachel did not lose any children. All the children were hard workers. Richard (Dick) Mann Jones worked hard to become a doctor. After his graduation from the University of Louisville, he stayed at one practice on Broadway his whole life in Louisville, KY. He was an avid gambler, loving poker and race horses. Every Monday night and Thursday afternoon and night he played poker at the house on Hepburn Ave. I would help put the sheet on the table and count the chips. There were always eight. Doctors and one pharmacist. As he married later in life, for those days, he and wife Leah Smith only had one child, my mother Helen Atwood Jones. My grandmother once said you should marry two doctors. One to make the money and one to do the loving as they don't do both. Believe he had a weakness for women, especially widows and orphans. He would never send a widow a bill regardless.
When I was growing up I spent many days and sometime weeks at their house. I never saw him quarrel or say a curse word. The times we spent together were on the front porch before supper. He taught me all the bones in the body. Later when I wanted money to go to town he would give a penny at a time. Each for a bone or muscle I had learned. How I wish I had asked questions about his life and parents. He never mentioned his mother or father. I did have the privledge of knowing two of his brothers and his one sister. We would drive to Walton when I was small. In those days he was the only one that visited them as I never remember his brothers coming to our house. Dr. Asa was ill and his other brother , Robert Weldon, was the local pharmacist in Walton.
Sunday was the family day and we would drive around the city. He would always get us a cold custard before we came home. It tasted like frozen yogurt does today.
He loved to smoke cigars an no bug would dare to bite him.
When he had his stroke a driver would take him to his office. He died a year after my grandmother, Leah.
I learned two sayings from him. When he would refer to one of my boyfriends he would comment. "He looks as if he were dry and put up wet." It was years before I knew it refered to a horse. The other was "That is every cat in the alley". I still use the expression when all posibilities for a subject have been exhausted.
He would never eat anything left over and we were served in the dining room up until he was ill.
5-20-05
His brother Asa Newton Jones had a bio in KENTUCKY A History of the State by Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 7th Edition, pg 828. It mentions his father William Peter Jones and Rachel Clark Jones.
The bio mentions that William Peter and Rachel came from Canada and when they born.
Married by Mr. Benard Jr. Witnesses Tiletha Russell Smith and husband George Lawrence Smith.
Here they are in 1920.1920 > KENTUCKY > JEFFERSON > 4-WD; LOUISVILLE; 5-PCT
Series: T625 Roll: 578 Page: 214
Jones, R. M. Head R(renting) M W 50 M KY CanEng CanEng Physician Medical
Jones, Leah Wife F W 47 M KY KY KY
Jones, Helen A. Dau F W 14 S KY KY KYEnjoy!
Melinda
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I loved my grandmother. Most week ends I spent with them on Hepburn Ave. My great grandfather George Lawrence Smith built the house. It was listed in the magazine Louisville Today. When I visited the house with my grandson Andrew Skylar Crush the fireplaces looked in as excellent condition as when I was there. The original cut glass front doors are still there today August 23 , 2004. Six fireplaces graced the house. In the living room was a white marble fireplace carved of Ben Hur and his chariot. All the door locks were of rose gold and never needed polishing. They have the original keys.
My grandmother loved to write. Each day she would lock the door and write stories, poems or meditate. One time she smoked a Lapalina cigar so she could write in twenty five words or less why it was great. When a large box of Peter Paul Mounds arrived as a prize we were delighted. To my knowledge she did not sew. I was fascinated when she would dress in long dresses to go to the Eastern Star Meetings. It was quite a feat to put on the corset that was laced up the middle of your body containing long white strings.
In those times young ladies went to finishing school in Louisville. My grandmother went to a Mrs. Nold's school. How far it went in education I do not know. She spoke perfect English, had perfect manners. She always had a maid to cook and clean. I remember Virginia that serves us in the huge dining room. Only on Thursday night did we venture into the kitchen. A large iron skillet had hash always prepared for us. Never did she drive a car.
Now I find myself wondering what she did all day without transportation and without house work. . How I wish we had talked about her early childhood and parents.
On Friday nights we would walk to the Baxter Theater. She endured Tarzan ,Buck Rogers and all the early Westerns and never complained. When she was so ill in a darkened room how I wish I had gone in to sit at her bedside.
As I have some antiques that came down from her parents there is not a day I am not aware of her presence. If a strange noise happens in the house I always repeat her phrase, "Any spirits here please knock twice". As always I listen now as I listen then. She was open to spirits. People only chewed gum in the privacy of their bedroom. In case of a thunderstorm we headed to a bedroom with feather beds.
I loved my grandmother. Most week ends I spent with them on Hepburn Ave. My great grandfather George Lawrence Smith built the house. It was listed in the magazine Louisville Today. When I visited the house with my grandson Andrew Skylar Crush the fireplaces looked in as excellent condition as when I was there. The original cut glass front doors are still there today August 23 , 2004. Six fireplaces graced the house. In the living room was a white marble fireplace carved of Ben Hur and his chariot. All the door locks were of rose gold and never needed polishing. They have the original keys.
My grandmother loved to write. Each day she would lock the door and write stories, poems or meditate. One time she smoked a Lapalina cigar so she could write in twenty five words or less why it was great. When a large box of Peter Paul Mounds arrived as a prize we were delighted. To my knowledge she did not sew. I was fascinated when she would dress in long dresses to go to the Eastern Star Meetings. It was quite a feat to put on the corset that was laced up the middle of your body containing long white strings.
In those times young ladies went to finishing school in Louisville. My grandmother went to a Mrs. Nold's school. How far it went in education I do not know. She spoke perfect English, had perfect manners. She always had a maid to cook and clean. I remember Virginia that serves us in the huge dining room. Only on Thursday night did we venture into the kitchen. A large iron skillet had hash always prepared for us. Never did she drive a car.
Now I find myself wondering what she did all day without transportation and without house work. . How I wish we had talked about her early childhood and parents.
On Friday nights we would walk to the Baxter Theater. She endured Tarzan ,Buck Rogers and all the early Westerns and never complained. The cost of the movie was ten cents.
. If you had a lucky ticket you went up on the stage at intermission and were given a huge bag of groceries. We always walked. One time a bird pooped on her glasses. She looked up in the sky and said "For the rich you sing."When she was so ill in a darkened room how I wish I had gone in to sit at her bedside. She took off her diamond ring and gave it to me. My younger daughter, Chris, now wears it in another mounting with my engagement ring and a saffire.
As I have some antiques that came down from her parents there is not a day I am not aware of her presence. If a strange noise happens in the house I always repeat her phrase, "Any spirits here please knock twice". As always I listen now as I listen then. She was open to spirits. People only chewed gum in the privacy of their bedroom. In case of a thunderstorm we headed to a bedroom with feather beds.
. If you had a lucky ticket you went up on the stage at intermission and were given a huge bag of groceries. We always walked. One time a bird pooped on her glasses. She looked up in the sky and said "For the rich you sing.". If you had a lucky ticket you went up on the stage at intermission and were given a huge bag of groceries. We always walked. One time a bird pooped on her glasses. She looked up in the sky and said "For the rich you sing."
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Kentucky Death Index
Age 45, place Jefferson County, Louisville, Kentucky
Vol 034
Cert. 16522
Deathvol 50
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Helen Atwood Jones married twice. First to Palmer Luther Lancaster and then to Roger Schmidt Kilgus. As she married quite young the first thing she did after I was born was go back to high school and graduate. After her second husband died she decided to go to college. She moved to Bowling Green, KY, rented an apartment near the campus. Carol Leah, the youngest child moved with her. Her grades were all A's and she graduated with honors. Later she finished her Master's Degree at Western University. This made tradition as she graduated after I did from Western.
After teaching in Bowling Green she moved back to Louisville, KY. By this time all the children were married and I was the only child living in Louisville. She taught one year in Louisville before she had a heart attack and died the last week of school.
The last year she would come to my house on Tuesday afternoons for dinner. She loved to drink whiskey sours. She was not a drinker by nature, however she learned to love Tuesdays. Her favorite meal was rolled lamb.
We never understood her and she never understood us. Made for complicated relationships. She was not a prejudice person and passed on those ideas to us. Education was important to her. It wasn't if we would go to college but where. Western was my choice, Mazie chose Indiana University. Bing went to the pharmacy school in Louisville, When he graduated University of Kentucky was the school and we went to his graduation.
When she died in the hospital I was talking to her on the phone. The only comment she made was "I have to go now". Later when they found her she still had the phone in her hand. Her health was always an issue. We would tease her on all the pills she would take and her own way of doctoring herself. 60 was an early age to die.
After teaching in Bowling Green she moved back to Louisville, KY. By this time all the children were married and I was the only child living in Louisville. She taught one year in Louisville before she had a heart attack and died the last week of school.
The last year she would come to my house on Tuesday afternoons for dinner. She loved to drink whiskey sours. She was not a drinker by nature, however she learned to love Tuesdays. Her favorite meal was rolled lamb.
We never understood her and she never understood us. Made for complicated relationships. She was not a prejudice person and passed on those ideas to us. Education was important to her. It wasn't if we would go to college but where. Western was my choice, Mazie chose Indiana University. Bing went to the pharmacy school in Louisville, When he graduated University of Kentucky was the school and we went to his graduation.
When she died in the hospital I was talking to her on the phone. The only comment she made was "I have to go now". Later when they found her she still had the phone in her hand. Her health was always an issue. We would tease her on all the pills she would take and her own way of doctoring herself. 60 was an early age to die.
Central Park Photo must have been when Mother was 15. July 4th, 1920
South Park Photo must have been when Mother was 12-13.Married 2 Roger Schmidt Kilgus
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1930 Fayette County, KY. census location Lexington taken Apr 3, 1930 household #50:
Crouch, Lawrence head 33 KY/KY/KY; Mary L. wife 32 KY/OH/WV; Lucile dau 5 KY/KY/KY; Lawrence jr. son 4 1/12 KY/KY/KY; Katherine dau 2 11/12 KY/KY/KY; Alline dau 1 11/12 KY/KY/KY; James B. son 7/12 KY/KY/KY. Lawrence was age 24 at first marriage, Mary was 22.
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Social Security Information for LAWRENCE CROUCH:
Born: 22 Mar 1926
Died: Jul 1977
Last Residence: 45428 (Dayton, Montgomery, OH) Last Benefit: 45417 (Dayton, Montgomery, OH) SSN: 405-28-1191 Issued: Kentucky
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Social Security Information for JAMES B CROUCH:
Born: 04 Sep 1929
Died: 21 Feb 1999 (V)
Last Residence: 40356 (Nicholasville, Jessamine, KY) Last Benefit: (none specified)
SSN: 407-34-1018 Issued: Kentucky
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Social Security Information for EUGENE T CROUCH:
Born: 23 Apr 1937
Died: 27 May 1991
Last Residence: (not specified) Last Benefit: (none specified)
SSN: 401-48-5844 Issued: Kentucky
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1930 Fayette County, KY. census location Lexington taken Apr 8, 1930 household #364:
Brown, Roy M. head 41 KY/KY/KY; Lona J. wife 27 KY/KY/KY; Eugenia dau 5 KY/KY/KY; Thomas M. son 4 KY/KY/KY. Roy was age 25 at first marriage, Lona was 19.Social Security Information for ROY BROWN:
Born: 13 Feb 1890
Died: Apr 1965
Last Residence: (Kentucky) Last Benefit: (none specified)
SSN: 402-07-9999 Issued: Kentucky
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Social Security Information for THOMAS M BROWN:
Born: 07 Dec 1925
Died: 29 Jan 1993
Last Residence: 91352 (Sun Valley, Los Angeles, CA) Last Benefit: (none specified)
SSN: 406-24-0907 Issued: Kentucky
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