Kentucky Ancestors, Volume 46, Number 3 - Kentucky Historical ...

Back row, from left: Thomas, Charles, Sallie, Catherine, Martha, Mary. Front row, from left: Robert, Stella
infantry for the Union side. 10
In 1900, Charles (thirty-nine) and Sallie (twentyseven)
were living in the Crutcher’s Schoolhouse
District of Franklin County with five children,
Charles Jr. (Because we had never heard of a Charles
Jr. and no other record of him exists, I believe this to
have been the oldest son, Richard, who was recorded
incorrectly as Charles Jr.), Emma, Rosa, Lizzie, and
Thomas. Charles and the oldest son had jobs as farm
laborers. They were living in the same household as
Sallie’s parents, John and Rosa Thomas. 11 In the same
year, Emily was living on Church Street in downtown
Frankfort as the boarder of Sandy Martin. Joe is not
listed as living with her. 12
In 1910, the Jones family was still living in
the Crutcher’s Schoolhouse District. Charles’s age
was recorded as fifty-four and Sallie was fortyseven.
There are seven children living at home:
Richard, Lizzie, Thomas, Mary and Martha (twins),
Katherine [sic], Stella, and one grandson, Robert,
who is the son of the older daughter, Rosa. Charles
and son, Richard, worked on a farm; Sallie was a
washerwoman; and younger son, Thomas, ten years
old, was listed as a servant for a private family. 13
Emily was living on Blanton Street in downtown
Frankfort with her son, Joseph. The record indicates
that Emily was the mother of eleven children, with
four still living. We are aware of Charles and Joseph,
but who are the other two? 14
Shown in the picture above are Charles, Sallie,
and some of the younger children around 1912. I
was told by my mother that this picture was taken
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on their front porch on a Sunday afternoon. They
had taken their shoes off, but were still wearing their
church clothes. The little boy standing right in front
of Charles is their grandson, Robert.
By 1920, Charles (documented as age fifty-six–
two years older than he was ten years earlier) and
Sallie (documented as forty-six–one year younger
than she was in 1910) are living on Versailles Pike
in the Forks of Elkhorn District of Franklin County
with five children left at home: Thomas, Mary (twin
Martha died in 1914), 15 Catherine, Stella, Clarence
and one grandson, Robert (who is now listed as their
son). Charles and son, Thomas, are laborers at a
distillery. 16 The 1920 census found Emily Davis and
Joseph Jones living on Mero Street in downtown
Frankfort. 17 I was able to trace Emily in Frankfort city
directories until 1923. No further entries could be
found after that time.
Charles’s wife, Sallie Thomas Jones, died 23
July1927 at home on Versailles Pike at the age
of fifty-two of cerebral sclerosis. She is buried at
Greenhill Cemetery in Frankfort. 18
The year 1930 found “Charley” living on Church
Street in downtown Frankfort with his daughter,
Catherine (my mother), as head of the household. 19
I was told by her that he had very little eyesight
remaining and when a fire started in his apartment
building on Washington Street in 1943, he was
unable to get out. “Charlie” died from injuries
received in the fire on 17 January 1943. 20