Munn-Jones Family Papers, ca. 1860s-1962
Held by The Filson Historical Society
Creator: Munn-Jones Family
Title: Papers, ca. 1860s-1962
Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department.
Size of Collection: 0.5 cu. ft.
Location Number: Mss. A M966a
Scope and Content Note
This collection documents members of the Munn and Jones families of Louisville, Kentucky. Most materials date from the early decades of the twentieth century and include the diaries of Eva Munn, a few miscellaneous papers of William Garnett Munn, a scrapbook of Annie Barkley Jones Gamble, and various recipes.
Folders 1-3 hold Eva Munn’s diaries dating from 1904-1909. Eva’s diary entries from 1904-1905 provide information about her junior and senior years at Dana Hall School, a boarding school for female students in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She writes about her classes, friendships, chapel and church attendance, and other school and social activities. In diary entries from 1906-1909, when Eva had returned to Louisville, she writes about her social activities, church and Sunday school attendance, vacations, and relationships with young men. She and Hunt Jones began dating in late summer 1909 and were engaged to be married on New Year’s Eve in 1909.
Folders 4-7 hold a ca. 1895-1932 scrapbook belonging to Hunt Jones’s half-sister Annie Barkley Jones Gamble, as well as handwritten and printed recipes from the first half of the twentieth century, with some collected by Annie and others possibly collected by Mary Lee Halsey.
Folder 8 holds ca. 1860s-1880s cabinet cards—one of John Jay Halsey, one of Edmund William Halsey, and one of Edmund Tryon Halsey, with handwritten notes on the back of each photograph. The connection between Munn and Jones family members and Halsey family members is unclear.
Folder 9 contains miscellaneous papers dating from 1892-1962, including a small number of writings of Eva’s father William Garnett Munn and Eva’s Red Cross materials from the Ohio River flood of 1937. There is also a letter dated 23 July 1892 from “Uncle Julius” in Effingham, New York, to Lettie H. Alexander in Louisville.
Related Collections:
Munn family photograph collection [021PC16]
Photograph of residence of W. G. Munn located at 44 Hill Road [ARS-44, Arthur Raymond Smith photograph collection, 997PC34]
Abraham Godwin Munn papers [Mss. A M966]
Biographical Note
Members of the Munn and Jones families represented in this collection include Eva Hartwell Munn Jones (1886-1974), William Garnett Munn (1855-1948), Hunt Jones (1884-1961), and Annie Barkley Jones Gamble (1866-1938).
Eva Munn grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of Charlotte “Lottie” Hartwell Munn (1859-1926) and William Garnett Munn, a Louisville manufacturer. William Garnett Munn’s father, Abraham Godwin Munn (1818-1910), manufactured agricultural implements. Eva attended high school at Dana Hall School, a boarding school for female students in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She graduated in 1905 and returned to Louisville.
Hunt Jones also grew up in Louisville, the son of Fannie and Stephen E. Jones. Hunt and Eva began dating in 1909 and were married in June 1910. Their children were Katherine Breckinridge Jones (who died one day after her birth in 1912) and Hunt Breckinridge Jones (1914-2014). Eva and Hunt divorced in 1927.
During the 1920s and 1930s, Hunt Jones was listed in Louisville city directories as a traveling salesman. At the time of the 1940 census, Hunt was married to Bess Jones and living in Eminence, Kentucky.
Annie Barkley Jones Gamble was Hunt Jones’s older half-sister, the child of Stephen E. Jones and Martha McKee. She was married to Thomas Hoyt Gamble and lived in Louisville.
Some envelopes among the recipes in the collection are addressed to Mary Lee Halsey (1863-1952) and her son Edmund T. Halsey at 1224 Garvin Place in Louisville. Mary’s husband was William L. Halsey (1855-1919), the son of John Jay Halsey and Elizabeth Hayden Halsey. There are three cabinet cards in the collection, one of John Jay Halsey (1810-1880), one of Edmund William Halsey (1823-1891), and one of Edmund Tryon Halsey (1850-1907).
Folder List
Box 1
Folder 1: Diary of Eva Munn, 1904-1908
Folder 2: Diary of Eva Munn, 1905-1906
Folder 3: Diary of Eva Munn, 1909
Folder 4: Scrapbook of Annie Barkley Jones Gamble, ca. 1895-1932
Folder 5: Recipe notebook of Annie Barkley Jones Gamble, ca. 1910s-1930s
Folder 6: Recipe notebook, undated
Folder 7: Loose handwritten and printed recipes, ca. 1910s-1960s
Folder 8: Halsey family photographs, ca. 1860s-1880s
Folder 9: Miscellaneous Munn family papers, 1892-1962
Subject Headings
American Red Cross.
Dana Hall School.
Dating (Social customs)
Electric railroads – Cars.
First Unitarian Church (Louisville, Ky.)
Formulas, recipes, etc.
Halsey family.
Hindman Settlement School.
Jones, Eva Munn, 1886-1974.
Medical care.
Munn, William Garnett, 1855-1948.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
Scrapbooks.
Women – Kentucky – Louisville.