A Photograph's Ninety-Year Journey

by Marvin T. Jones

John Pat Jones,
my grandfather, had this portrait of himself made around 1900
and gave a small print to his cousin Claudia.

Then Claudia Hall Weaver

bequeathed the picture to her daughter Dicie.

Then Dicie Weaver Smith

bequeathed the picture to her daughter, Shawnee.

Then Shawnee Camille Smith Ball

gave the portrait to John Pat's son, T.W., so that ...

....T.W. Jones

could give it to me,

John Pat's grandson.