Eleanor Jones (Wauchope) attended Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, where she became a member of the Mu Chapter of Alpha Chi Omega.
She married M. Stanley Wauchope in her hometown of Winterset, Iowa. They were wed at eight in the morning. Afterwards, they drove to Davenport, Iowa, in an automobile. She taught school at State Center, Iowa, before heading east.
In D.C., the couple worked for the government work. Evelyn worked in the Quartermaster General’s Office of the War Department, according to the Alpha Chi Omega roster of members who did war work.
The Wauchopes had a home built in Brentwood, Maryland, and moved in around 1919. This information was garnered from snippets which appeared in issues of The Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega.
When I went searching for additional information, I came across a wonderful digital book about her early life. It was compiled by her granddaughter Jeannine Florance. I was impressed by the amount of work that went into producing the book and I was reminded how important it is to tell our stories and have them written. My thanks to Jeannine Florance for the use of the pictures and for allowing me to link to her grandmother’s life stories. Let it be the impetus for each of us to document some of our own life stories.
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