Family Stories: Stone

FAMILY STORIES OF STONE

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Diaries of Lillian Langhorst Jones

Jones, Lillian Langhorst. The Lifelong Diaries of Lillian Langhorst Jones. Infinity, 2005.  

This diary was compiled and published by my Great-Aunt Megan. Lillian Langhorst Jones is my maternal Great-Great-Grandmother and the book contains her lifelong diaries, and the beginning also contains recollections of family history and immigration as well as Lillian’s personal stories and memories of childhood. Also published as part of this diary are letters from relatives. Stone is mentioned frequently in the diaries and particularly in relation to nearby mountains, as they lived in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. In the story, Jackson’s Peak, Lillian talks about how her Uncle Bernhard became fascinated with the “shaved off peak of a mountain” and took her along to climb the peak with him when Lillian was 10 years old. She discusses the geology that they encountered hiking, “Each of us used a stout stick to assist us in climbing over great lava formations and some slate rock before reaching the top.” This diary was an important source and the book acted as a Portal for me to the lives of my direct Ancestors.