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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Thomas Alexander Jones: Birth: 09 FEB 1924 in Jacksonville, Florida. Death: 05 MAY 1998 in Manassas, Virginia

  2. Robert Luther Jones: Birth: 24 JUL 1928 in Atlanta, Georgia. Death: 18 NOV 1977 in Stone Mountain, Georgia


Sources
1. Title:   Personal knowledge of Helen Tomlinson Jones

Notes
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Note:   Thomas A. Jones, Sr. is found living with his parents in 1910 and 1920 Census Records:
  1910 United States Federal Census about Lether B Jones
  Name: Lether B Jones - Railroad shop
 [Luther B Jones]
 Age in 1910: 29
 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881
 Birthplace: Alabama
 Relation to Head of House: Head
 Father's Birth Place: Alabama
 Mother's Birth Place: Alabama
 Spouse's Name: Gussie M
 Home in 1910: Macon Ward 3, Bibb, Georgia
 Marital Status: Married
 Race: White
 Gender: Male
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 Household Members: Name Age
 Lether B Jones 29
 Gussie M Jones 22
 Thomas Jones 6
 Myrtle Jones 3
 Margaret Jones 1
  1920 United States Federal Census about Luther B Jones
 Name: Luther B Jones - Superintendent of City Streets
 Home in 1920: Macon Ward 4, Bibb, Georgia
 Age: 32 years
 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1888
 Birthplace: Alabama
 Relation to Head of House: Head
 Spouse's Name: Gussie
 Father's Birth Place: Alabama
 Mother's Birth Place: Alabama
 Marital Status: Married
 Race: White
 Sex: Male
 Home owned: Own
 Able to read: Yes
 Able to Write: Yes
 Image: 1108
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 Household Members: Name Age
 Luther B Jones 32
 Gussie Jones 29
 Thomas Jones 15 - Collector for Drug Company
 Myrtle Jones 13
 Margaret Jones 10
 Thelma Jones 6
 L B Jones 2
 Henry R Jones 39
  The 1930 census finds Thomas and Helen at 1102 Shelby Place, Atlanta, Fulton Co., GA. Tom is 25 and his job is "battery man" at "wrecking house" - which is all I could make out of the writing. Living with them is Thomas A., age 6, born Florida; and Robert, age 1-1/2, born in GA.
  From recollections of Thomas A. Jones, Jr.: "Pop" was an ambulance driver; worked at (or owned) Crane Auto parts (junk yard); had a battery charging business; in Avondale [Decatur, GA] he owned Jones Garage and Auto parts. After the war Tom, Jr. worked with Pop there. The shop caught fire and burned up. Pop then went to work at Truck Place as a mechanic and was there the rest of his life.
  Tom, Jr. also has early memories of living in a small white house in Tampa, Florida where Pop worked at a ship yard loading ships.
  In Atlanta, they lived in a quadplex apartment house on Woodland Avenue while Tom, Jr. attended grammar thru junior high. In the depression he remembers living in a "shack" on Shelby Place. Pop raised rabbits. Tom, Jr. had to feed them in the morning before school. Later they moved to Memorial Drive, S.E.
  Found in a collection of papers of Helen T. Jones:
 a) "Certificate in Lieu of Lost or Destroyed Discharge" - Armed Forces of the United States. This is to certify that THOMAS ALEXANDER JONES was discharged from the United States Marine Corps by Honorable Discharge On 15 October 1923 at Parris Island, South Carolina Given at Washington, D.C. on 12 April 1961.
  Death notice (newspaper and date printed unknown): "Friends and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Jones, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Jones, Decatur; Mr. and Mrs. T.A. Jones, Jr., Falls Church, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. L.B. Jones, Jr., Chicago, Ill.; Mr. and mrs. Harry Bornfield, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Roberts, St. Louis, Mo.,; mr. and Mrs. Raymond Rookstool, Phoenix, Ariz.; six grandchildren, nieces and nephews are invited to attend the funeral of Mr. Thomas A. Jones Sunday, Dec. 13, 1964, at 3:30 p.m. from Ward's Glenwood Chapel, Rev. John Buel officiating. Pallbearers will assemble at the chapel at 3:15 p.m. Interment, Resthaven Memorial Gardens. Horis A. Ward Inc."
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  Helen's Bible recorded that Thomas was baptised at the Vineville Baptist Church in Macon, Georgia. Also states he served in the Marine Corp. 1922-1923



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