On Oct. 18, 2022, we put a blog together regarding a newly discovered wedding invitation from 1926. We knew it had to have been sent to either Wm. or Alma Jones of Nephi, but wanted to donate it to either the McPherson family or the Vogt family and hoped to have received more information amount who it all involved. Now we know, thanks to a woman from outside Utah who secretly follows our blog, but didn't want to share her exact name and family ties, other than to say she is a "Tolley Twig". She has saved me from drowning on many occasions, and she put two and two together for me on who is what on this. A better scan of the invitation is attached and here is the new information. Hannah McPherson was the daughter of John William McPherson McPherson, who lived on the north/west corner of 7th North on Nephi's Main Street, on the land that was later occupied by Premium Oil Co. and now a metal building business. The home was unoccupied when I was a kid and later removed. Hannah McPherson's mother was Mary Jane Jones, as noted in the invitation. Walter and Hannah had 5 daughters, the youngest being Rosemary, who passed through the earthly veil in June of this year. She had married Larry Goble and he died in Oct., 2021. Going back to Hannah, she had a sister by the name of Fonda(who I remember)who married Elmer Tolley(a brother to Charles Ross Tolley). One of Hannah's brothers was named Alma Jones McPherson, and married one of the Norton boys. So, to make it even more confusing, their were two men named Alma Jones that lived on 7th North, East and West 100 years ago and related. Hannah was named after her mother-Hannah Pendlebury, the first wife of Edward Jones the first who arrived in Nephi in 1852. Now you see why some of us Mormons like to have some Scotch with our water., even though we are from England. Holy Hannah!
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