Frank Jones Album (Selected Photos) - L. L. Thomas Cornet Band
Entry/Object ID
2020.8.17
Description
L. L. Thomas Cornet Band of Blacksville on the border of Greene County, Pennsylvania and Monongalia County, West Virginia.
The band was led by Lot Lindsay Thomas [1868-1937] who is believed to be the decoratively dressed man wearing a top hat at the center of the group. His little daughter, Emma Isabelle Thomas [1899-1994] is beside him in a white dress.
CROSS-REFERENCE: The West Virginia & Regional History Center at West Virginia University also holds a print of this photograph (Identifier 040937, Collection number A&M 1730). See WEB LINKS.
Original, no photographer listed.
Collection
Zenia Gilbert Collection
Acquisition
Accession
2020.8
Acquisition Method
Digital
Credit Line
Zenia Gilbert
Made/Created
Date made
circa 1900
Lexicon
Search Terms
Music, Pastimes, Thomas family, Unidentified--People
Frank Blair Jones Album - Zenia Gilbert Collection
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 - L. L. Thomas Cornet Band, item no. GILB-AN001-0001-0022, Frank Jones Album Series, Zenia Gilbert Collection, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).
