Lost and Now I'm Fine

Annie (Sister) Jones Schuler was born January 30, 1923, in Carpenter, MS. She was the seventh child of Emerson and Castanna Jones. She married at an early age to Willie Schuler and was the mother of 12 children with nine of them surviving after childbirth. She completed a sixth-grade education, but common sense and number sense caused her to be extremely knowledgeable. Here are some of her accomplishments. My mother performed with her brothers during her younger years and on stage with a traveling entertainment group that stopped in Utica. She was able to purchase and maintain her own land and house from 1979 to her death. She obtained her driver's license permit and purchased her own car. She wrote poems that her children recited in church during the various holidays and the Sunday School Conventions. She also had written her life story in her handwriting that was published by her daughter after her death. She wrote and presented the Jones Family History at a church event. Additionally, she was able to travel to Columbia, Maryland, Washington, DC, Atlantic City, NJ, and New York, NY during her lifetime.