Frank Jones Album (Selected Photos) - Robert Watson (Civil War veteran, center) with Frank Blair Jones and Frank E. Jones

Photograph

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Greene Connections

Name/Title

Frank Jones Album (Selected Photos) - Robert Watson (Civil War veteran, center) with Frank Blair Jones and Frank E. Jones

Entry/Object ID

2020.8.8

Description

Dated 10 April 1942. [Left-Right]: Frank Blair Jones (Spanish American War / World War I / World War II veteran), Robert Watson (Civil War veteran), Frank E. Jones (World War II veteran). Robert Watson was just two days away from his 95th birthday when this photo was taken. He passed away later that same month. He was the husband of Catharine Anderson, and the son of John and Mary Ann (Almost) Watson. Robert was one of the last surviving Civil War veterans in Greene County, PA, at the time of his death. Original, candid.

Collection

Zenia Gilbert Collection

Made/Created

Date made

Apr 10, 1942

Lexicon

Search Terms

Jones family, Military, Veterans--Civil War, Veterans--Spanish-American War, 1898, Veterans--World War I, Veterans--World War II, Watson family

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

Other Number: GILB-AN001-0001-0008

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Jones, Frank Blair [1879-1951]

Person or Organization

Jones, Frank Edward [1919-1993]

Person or Organization

Watson, Robert [1847-1942]

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Frank Blair Jones Album - Zenia Gilbert Collection

Owner/Agent

Gilbert, Zenia Jane

Acquisition Method

Digital

Acquisition Date

2015

Notes

The Frank Jones Album Series of the Zenia Gilbert Collection was assembled by Frank Blair Jones [1879-1951] - husband of Lydia White, son of Ephraim McClelland Jones and Julia Ann Henderson. Frank was a U.S. Navy veteran and bandmaster. He was very interested in early local history and served as curator at the Greene County Historical Society. The album was passed from Frank Blair Jones [1879-1951] to his son Frank E. Jones [1919-1993]. Frank's niece, Valerie (daughter of William Ephraim Rodman Jones, granddaughter of Frank Blair Jones) received the album after her uncle's passing. Valerie arranged for the album to be maintained locally in the custody of Violet Elizabeth (Stockdale) Gilbert [1918-2006]. Violet's mother was Rachel Jane (Jones) Stockdale, sister to Frank Blair Jones. Violet passed the album to her daughter Zenia Gilbert who shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2015. Source Citation: Frank Jones Album - [Left-Right]: Frank Blair Jones, Robert Watson, Frank E. Jones, item no. GILB-AN001-0001-0008, Frank Jones Album Series, Zenia Gilbert Collection, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).