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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