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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Jasper Courtney b. Aug 18, 1902 in Philapelphia, MS.

fname=Jasper
lname=Courtney
address1=34802 Tree Meadow Lane
address2=
city=Pinehurst
state=TX
country=USA
zip=77362

lbrucereedy@yahoo.com

ancestor=Jasper, his daughter- Ruby Elaine

comments=Jasper was born Aug 18, 1902 in Philapelphia,MS.

He was an "Orphan" by the age of 11. He lived with a lawyer-name unknown.
He joined the US Navy at age 16. He toured the Pacific areas from aboard
a ship--name unknown, maybe a destroyer. He married in 1925 by a JP in MS.

He married Ruby Lee Welch. born-LA 1907, raised in MS. They lived in
Yazoo City, MS. Ruby Elaine was born in Jackson, MS in 1929. Her brother
William "Bill" Jasper was born Dec 18, 1927. The first baby was stillborn.
When Ruby Elaine was six years old the family moved to Yazoo City, MS,
at Yazoo, two more children were born: Joyce Lee and Norma Loyce.

Then they moved to Houston, TX. in Aug 18, 1935. They lived in some Apartments in SW Houston near McGowan and Alabama called Allen Parkway Apartments.

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