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Note: H60
Note: Notes from the book "Stonewall County, Between the Forks of the Brazos"] See Helen's father's notes for early years. Helen Tomlinson: "Helen was not too impressed with the return to the farm (after time of her mother's death and father's remarriage), after living in Mineral Wells. She wrote a cousin, stating she would like to come to Georgia. A cousin and Aunt helped her to get ready for the trip to Georgia by train, at age sixteen. She was sent a suitcase, a dress with eighty buttons down the front and a tam, so they would recognize their cousin. "An Aunt had planned my future. I should go in training to be a nurse. I entered the Macon General Hospital for a three year course. Thomas was employed here. We met and married a short time after. Two sons arrived in due time. Thomas A. Jones of Falls Church, VA 1924. Robert L. Jones, Atlanta, GA, born July 24, 1928, died 1977." Helen marked page 46 at the article on Mt. Zion School - "our school". It reads: "Mt. Zion School was about five miles south of Old Glory. They petitioned for a school in June of 1908. It was on a plot of ground bordering the farms of Pearl Davis and Otto Rinn. Both had large families. The Davis' had nine sons and one daughter. The Rinns had seven boys and six girls. To add to the school were two Carr girls and two TOMLINSON girls. The first teacher was Jimmie Rankin. Eula Mae Hasall came and taught from 1913 to 1916. She married Calvin Carr. Next her sister, Ora Hasall taught. Iva Mae Macon started January 1, 1920. They consolidated with Old Glory that year, the first to consolidate, and she taught in Old Glory many years after that. She married Lynn Flowers. Howell Carr bought the school house and moved it to his farm south of town. Where it still stands today." On page 7, Helen underlined and drew an arrow to sentence which read: "When the county was organized in December 1888 almost half of the citizens had secured their lands from the state, as homesteads by living on them for three years." On page 9 is a photo of Joe Bubela "with 5 cent cotton" 1932, which Helen writes was her first boyfriend and neighbor. page 10 - Description of founding of town of Rayner where Helen was born. ******************* Besides Macon, GA where she married Tom Jones, Helen lived in Tampa, Florida. She worked as a nurse while Tom worked at the ship yards loading ships. In Atlanta she was a nurse, especially a private duty nurse. Among her long-time clients was the Woodruff family of Atlanta who owned the Coca-Cola company. Helen's long-time home in Atlanta, until she moved to Manassas to live with her son Tom in 1995, was at 2916 Memorial Drive, S.E., Atlanta, GA 30317. In 1920 Census Soundex for Texas, Helen is not listed with other family members; she must have been in Georgia by then. In her family Bible (after marrying Tom), Helen wrote that she had been baptized in the Methodist church in Mineral Wells, Texas in 1910. ******************
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