Preferred Citation

[Item identification], Anne Lewis Jones Collection, MS010, Alexandria Library, Local History and Special Collections, Alexandria, Virginia.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Thomas C. Jones donated Dec. 2003

Biographical / Historical

Anne Lewis Jones (1882-1967) was the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Marshall Jones of Alexandria, Virginia. A descendant of John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, Miss Jones lived her entire life in Alexandria. She served as a civilian employee in the United States Medical Department during World War I. As a stenographer for the Office of the Chief Surgeon AEF, she spent a year working in France during the war. She operated the Blue Door antique store at 708 Wolfe Street for a number of years. She died in Alexandria December 14, 1967 and is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery.

Content Description

This collection includes travel records, embarkation orders, pay voucher, letters written to her mother and Aunt Cora, and her own remembrances of her time spent in France.

Arrangement

Chronological

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Correspondence
• Letters.
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- United States.
• World War, 1914-1918.