My Trails into the Past

I am participating in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge (April 2016), where we write 26 blog posts featuring each letter of the alphabet. O is for Olivia Jones Johnston When I discovered that my second great grandfather, Reuben Mack Johnston had married Olivia Jane Jones, I had about cried.  Johnston was hard enough to research but now I had a Jones. Would I ever find her parents? Question: Who were the parents of Olivia Jones Johnston? R.M. Johnston married Miss Olivia Jones on 23 Dec 1879 in Erath County, Texas. [1] 1879 Marriage R.M. Johnston to Olivia J. Jones What I learned about Olivia and her family came from an article in the Comanche Chief about her son, O.D. Johnston, nicknamed “Pig.” [2] He was interviewed by the newspaper when he was 81 years old and the paper printed photographs of the family. Reuben & Olivia Olivia Jane Jones was Reuben’s second wife, his first wife dying between 1877 and 1879.  She helped raise the three da...