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The following shows a close up of the postcard. This reveals a colorized photo of the west side of the 1000 block of Jefferson, with 1013 Jefferson visible as the second house in from the left (the color shown is not necessarily an accurate representation of the actual color of the house at the time): Side ce iecfion Lverrsvillr . Colo_ Louisville Cemetery records show that Martha Jones Butcher Peppard died in 1914. With the deaths of both parents and with Franklin and Arvilla still being minors, the property was next conveyed by their grandmother, Kezia Jones, to them as minors and to their guardian, Owen Thirlaway. The 1916 directory for Louisville shows that Franklin Butcher was by then married, and that he and his wife, Mabel, were living at 1013 Jefferson. He worked for C.W. Powell, a Louisville undertaker. They are believed to have had a child, Margaret or Marguerite Butcher, who was born in about 1916. Franklin Butcher's grandmother, Kezia Jones, came back to live again in the house at 1013 Jefferson. The 1920 census shows that she was living there by herself. The 1921 Louisville directory shows that at that time, Clarence and Maud Rhoades were also residing at 1013 Jefferson, probably as renters. (Clarence's parents, George and Barbara Rhoades, lived very close by at 1024 Grant.) At the time of the 1930 census, Kezia Jones was 80 years old and still living at 1013 Jefferson, this time with her son, George Jones, age 46, and widowed daughter, Lena Jones Hamilton, age 52. George Jones worked as a miner. Kezia Jones died in 1931. Her grandchildren, Franklin Butcher and Arvilla Butcher Leeper, had inherited the house and were the owners. But by this time, Franklin Butcher had passed away. The Franklin Butcher estate, with Mabel Maxwell as administrator, along with Arvilla Butcher Leeper, sold 1013 Jefferson in 1932 to Gina Guenzi.