[Mrs. Louia Vaughn Jones] [cellulose acetate photonegative]

Mrs. Grace Alfreda (Lomax) Jones was an African-American woman and maternal grandmother of Edwina Young, who supplied the following biographical information: Born June 9, 1907 in Mobile, Alabama; parents Edward Anthony Lomax, a Tuskegee Instructor, and Annie Edmonia Gray. The family moved to Ohio when her father was recruited to design Chevrolet chassis for the Fisher Body Company. She had an older sister Melvina Anne Lomax. They both were "A" students in high school and were the first African-American women to attend Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio. On June 13,1931 in Cleveland she married Louia Vaughn Jones, famous concert violinist and music professor at Howard University. Grace "Bigmamma" was a social worker and mother of Grace Louise Jones Young, who also became a social worker, and The Honorable Renee Marie Jones Weeks. Mrs. Jones was born a Catholic and died in August 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio.