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On the steps of the library Monday morning, July 30, Byrd (Mrs. E.M. “Ned”) Jones gave to the Rappahannock County Library a gift of 13,111.56 square feet of land.
Mrs. Jones chose the Friends of the Rappahannock County Library to receive and administer this gift for the library in order to make possible the erection of a building on the land, which will be architecturally in keeping with the present library and will provide much needed additional library space.
This .3 acre is located in Washington, vis-a-vis the library, between Mrs. Jones’ and Ms. Diane Bruce’s houses. The property faces Gay Street and backs on to an access alley that runs through to Middle Street (also known as #211-Old Lee Highway).
The property and buildings thereon are subject to the life estate of Mrs. Emily Frances Fincham.
In passing the deed to Mr. Charles Russell, chairman of Friends of the Rappahannock County Library, Mrs. Jones said she was giving the property “because I have so much epjoyed the library—the excellence of it. It’s such a great library. Mr. and Mrs. Jamieson and so many others have made it great.”
After World War II, Byrd Gravatt Jones came from her home in Blackstone, Va., Nottoway County, the bride at a tall, handsome young Army Captain, Ned Jones. In the big, generous house at Delamore, the Jones family place, her family grew up and the apple and cattle funning operations prospered.
Mr. Jones became a prominent orchardiat, serving many years as president of the Virginia State Horticultural Society and National Apple Institute, before becoming
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