106 - Robert Lee Jones - Bristol Cemetery - Bristol, TX
N 32° 27.435 W 096° 34.257
14S E 728320 N 3593719
Robert Lee Jones was born in 1894, the year that the Dreyfus Affair began in France.
Waymark Code: WMKX8K
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/07/2014
Views: 2
Robert shares a modern, gray granite headstone with his wife, Pauline Huff, in the Jones family plot in Bristol Cemetery, Bristol, TX. On the front is the family name, with the pertinent dates:
Robert Lee
Apr. 23, 1894
May 30, 2000
Pauline Huff
Apr. 5, 1897
Nov. 14, 1983
Between their dates is a heart with their wedding date, Sept. 1, 1921, flanked by flowers. On the reverse of the headstone is the following:
Children
Robert Huff Paula
Grandchildren
Jan Adrienne Robert Lee Eric Matthew James Bernard
Great Grandchildren
Rachael Rebecca Adam Jacquelyn Keenen Leda Grace Quintin
Significant events in his lifetime include:
1894 - Artist Norman Rockwell is born.
1904 - The Russo-Japanese War begins.
1914 - The Great War begins with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
1924 - George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," one of QDV's favorite pieces of music, is first performed.
1934 - The assassination of Bolshevik leader, Sergei Kirov, prompts Josef Stalin's Great Purge.
1944 - D-Day sees an Allied invasion of the beaches of Normandy in northern France, resulting in a weakening of Nazi grip on Europe.
1954 - Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock," one of the seminal moments in rock and roll history.
1964 - The Beatles spearhead the British Invasion of America.
1974 - Muhammad Ali defeats George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle.
1984 - Apple releases the first Macintosh computer, with a legendary commercial to promote it.
1994 - Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
2000 - Tsar Nicholas II and his family are canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church.
Location of Headstone: Bristol Cemetery, Bristol, TX
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