JEROME ASBURY ALMOND and MARY IRIS LEFLER ALMOND

Jerome Asbury Almond boarded at the home of Mr. and Mrs . George Adam Lefler, during the years of 1913-1914 while working on a dam at Badin North Carolina.

During WW1 they moved to Baltimore, Maryland where Jerome went to work at the shipyards, and there they lived in a company house. They later moved into an old converted school house which had two apartments and was located two miles from the airport. They later moved to Dundock Section of Baltimore, near the Dundock School.

They lived in Baltimore for 9 years, where Jerome later gained employment with Whiting Turner Construction Company.

In 1926, Whiting -Turner obtained a contract to build an underground tunnel for the city of Richmond,Va. There the family lived in boarding houses and apartments.

In 1928 Whiting-Turner contracted to build a railroad bridge across the Rappannock River in Frederickburg,Va. From this locale, the family moved to Washington,D.C. Later, following the company, they found themselves in Louden, Tennessee, where there was a bridge contract. Later came a contract for a bridge in Paris, Tennessee, across the Tennessee River.

1928-1929

Whiting -turner contracted a bridge for the Caney Fork River, at Elmwood, Tennessee. In 1931 the family moved from Big Sandy, Tennessee (near Paris) to Carthage, Tennessee. With the completion of the Caney Fork River bridge, the Great Depression was in effect and the company had no work. Jerome was hired to be in charge of maintanance and upkeep of all barges, anchored at Carthage on the Cumberland River until further work became available.