Lydia wrote: "...remember we don't have many years to live, even if we are blessed with old age, we should try to live every day like we would want to be living when Jesus comes."

Lydia was the firstborn and the only daughter of Henry Wood Jones and his wife, Delila Reynolds Jones. Henry was a farmer and Delila was a homemaker.

In 1887, 17-year old Lydia McNair Jones married 23-year old Boaz Jaggers. Boaz was a farmer and in the winter, he and Lydia would weave baskets, which was a cottage industry in that part of, Kentucky.

A large portion of Lydia's life was spent having and raising children. Over the first 28 years of her marriage she had 10 children. The children of Lydia Jones Jaggers and Boaz Jaggers were: Amy Florence Logsdon (1888); Clara Bird Butler (1891); Delilah Ermine Nevitt (1893); Gracie (1895); Ethel May Harris (1898); Maymie Love Schumaker(1900); Geneva Pearl (1903); Jones Thurman (1904); Lydia Mac Bogard (1908); and Boze Edwin (1915).

Lydia lost two little daughters; her daughter Gracie was between 2-5 years old when she died and her daughter Pearl died of Diphtheria. Lydia also had three miscarriages.

When her youngest child, Boze Edwin was seven years old, her husband Boaz died. Lydia knew she had to take care of her family, so she opened a little grocery store and continued to weave baskets.

At some point, she met and started a relationship with a man whose surname was, Runner. Some of her children didn't care for Mr. Runner and there is no mention of him in any family letters; so, I know nothing about him. However, through family pictures it seems as if they must have been together for at least 30 years.

Lydia, Boze, Lydi Mac moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky where she became a practical nurse. In some of her letters she wrote about being hired to go to the homes of folks who were sick in order to take care of them.

As Lydia began to age, she would live with some of her children, going from house to house every few months. From her letters it seems as if she was a feisty woman with determination to survive. Though Lydia is gone, she is not forgotten.