A Victorian era photograph album of Miss Carrie Colgin Jones contains a 
number of views taken by photographic studios in Baltimore, Md., Richmond, 
Va., or Washington, D.C.  The album is completely separated and in poor 
condition. It appears that many photographs once in the album have been 
removed. Of those that remain, only one is labeled, as Robert Munday.

Miss Carrie Colgin Jones, daughter of John Haley Jones, Jr. and Maria 
Russell Nelson, was born in Matagorda, Texas in March 1861. Her father 
drowned in the Battle of Matagorda, near Galveston, on or about December 
30, 1863. A memorial to him and his comrads is found in the Matagorda City 
Cemetery.

Mrs. Maria (Nelson) Jones did not stay a widow long, as she married (2) 
c.1876 to Richard Henry Waring of "Glenvilla," Essex County, Virginia. The 
date of her death and place of burial have not yet been determined. The 
known photograph we have of Maria Russell Nelson Jones and her daughter 
Carrie Colgin Jones was taken by photographer Rees in Richmond, Va.  Mr. 
R.H. Waring died in 1894.

Carrie Colgin Jones was married in December 1888 in St. John's Episcopal 
Church of Tappahannock, Virginia, to John Waller Faulconer, Jr.  M In 1896, 
the couple purchased an historic home at the west end of Prince Street in 
Tappahannock, known as Little Egypt. The house and farm remained in their 
possession until Carrie died in December 1925 and John died in November 
1926. Their heirs divided the Faulconer farm into small lots, and afterward 
the circle around which the lots sit was named Faulconer Circle.  Faulconer 
was later known as a dry goods merchant in Tappahannock, and served as an 
officer of the Southside Bank there.

It may be that photographs of immediate (and recognized/identified) family 
were removed and the remaining photographs in the album were of friends and 
acquaintances. Those remaining in the photograph album of Miss Carrie C. 
Jones are posted on a web page by Wesley E. Pippenger of Arlington, 
Va.  Any help is appreciated in identifying any of the unnamed faces.

http://users.erols.com/pipp/carriejones.htm


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