The Owner's Code
Book One
The Owner's Code
Twenty-five laws of lasting wealth, proven by the families who lived them.
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Every October 16 is Prince Albert Jones Day.
The story of Prince Albert Jones Sr., the man the community is named for, and the fifteen children raised on his land. It is told in the voices of the people who knew them, and it starts with Father.
October 16, 2007
The Montgomery County Commission named the community along Old Pike Road in Mathews the Jonesville Community, in honor of Prince Albert Jones Sr. and his family's contribution to it. He was ninety-one and alive to see it. The family has kept October 16 as Prince Albert Jones Day ever since.
"Carry on your good name."
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His children called him Father, and so did nearly everyone else. He cut and baled hay for farms across Mathews, Cecil, Waugh, Pike Road and Mt. Meigs, hauled his neighbors' crops to market on his own trucks, and never lived more than five miles from where he was born.
Sources: Jonesville Community historical marker (HMDB #68716); Montgomery Advertiser, January 18, 2008; Barnett Reunion Historical Archives; family record.
The books
The Owner's Code series carries the lessons of Jonesville. Father's five words close Book Two, and Uncle Prince's words open Book One. The memoir volumes on this page will join them.
Book One
Twenty-five laws of lasting wealth, proven by the families who lived them.
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Twenty-five laws of power, proven by the people who were never supposed to have it.
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Last, tell us who else we should ask: names, and how to reach them.
Writing help
Paste the transcript your phone made of your recording, or type your memory. The helper fixes spelling, punctuation and grammar, and spells family names and places the way the family spells them, while keeping your words and your voice. It does not add anything you did not say.
Read it once to be sure it still sounds like you, then send it to Carlton with your recording.
Family photo memorial
Photos of Father, the fifteen, the home place and the family through the years. Each one may go into the book. Send a photo to Carlton with who is in it, about what year it was taken, and who took it or owns it.
Public messages
Short spoken messages anyone can hear: a tribute, a thank-you, a memory you want the whole family to hear now. These are separate from the private book recordings. Record up to two minutes, say who it is for, and send it to Carlton marked "public message."
Family calendar
Every birthday, every day we remember someone who has gone home, and the days that belong to the whole family. On each of these days, the top of this page greets the family. Birthdays of living family members show the month and day only.
Memorials & obituaries
Each member of the family has a memorial here: the dates, where they rest, and their obituary or funeral program as the family finds them, so no one has to search for them again. Tap a name to open it. Have an obituary or funeral program we are missing? Send a photo or copy of it to Carlton.
The Jonesville 15
Prince Albert Jones Sr. and Essie Richard Jones raised their children on Old Pike Road. Each one will have a volume of their own, told by their children, their brothers and sisters, and everyone who loved them. We begin with those who have gone home, in the order they passed, starting with Christine. The others follow, each released in the weeks before their birthday. Stanley, who died as a baby, lives in his brothers' and sisters' volumes.
Book recordings received
Book recordings are kept private until each volume is released. Here we only show that someone has spoken, by last name and first initial.
What these recordings become
Each volume is drawn from the recordings, transcribed, checked by the family, and edited in the teller's own words. Nothing is published until that volume's release.
Family register