The following letter I think captures many things, the first being how over the years “in-laws” became attached to the Family and Jones Valley in such a special way.  Today, I think there are several examples; Stan Prosen and Jan Lammers come readily to mind.  In the 1930’s, when my mother, Nettie Sue Briscoe, married my father, Paul C. White, his grandmother, one of the original eleven founders, along with his mother, Jessie White, were living in the Valley along with several other of the founding siblings. Continue reading →