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==Mabel Eudora Jones==
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~joneshuff/Biographies/Edgar,%20Fred,%20Hubert,%20Mabel,%20Lester%20Jones.jpg Mabel as a young girl

Mabel Eudora "Mae" Jones was born 30 Jul 1885 in [[Yell County, Arkansas|Yell County]], [[Arkansas]], daughter of Ferdinand C "F C" Jones (1854-1933) by his wife Sarah Eudora "Dora" Haney (1857-1943). "F.C. Jones owned and operated a mercantile store in Belleville, Arkansas."[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~joneshuff/Biographies/Jones_Biographies_1.htm] She still lived in Arkansas when she married William "Bill" Creighton about 1905.  They had two daughters Eudora in 1907 and Ina in 1911 in Arkansas.  They divorced and Bill died shortly afterward. (Carol Burnett, in her autobiography, states that her cousins told her that Ina was not the daughter of Bill Creighton, but rather of Mr Melton.)

Mabel married secondly to Herman Melton. (Carol was not able to find the marriage certificate, and supposes that they did not actually marry.)  At some point, Mabel moved to Texas where in the early 1930s her daughter Ina was married to Joseph Burnett.

After Ina and Joseph had their first daughter Carol in 1933, she was left with Mabel, who Carol always called "Nanny" to raise, while Ina and Joseph moved to California, apparently to pursue a career in the entertainment industry (television and film).

At some point Nanny married thirdly to John White, who was her husband during at least part of Carol's childhood.  He died while Carol was a young child (probably less than eight).  Carol in her autobiography states:<blockquote>"He was the first dead person I'd ever seen.  We all had to kiss him in his coffin, so he wouldn't come back and haunt us. I was real little so they had to lift me up"</blockquote>

Sometime later, but before 1950, Nanny and Carol also relocated to the Hollywood area, where Carol graduated from Hollywood High.  It's not yet clear when and where Nanny died, but she was living in 1961, as she appears that year in a photograph in Carol's autobiography.

The Jones biographer states that she died in 1967 in California.

===Primary sources for 7===
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&f1=Ina&f2=&f0=Burnett&sx=&f4Day=&f4Month=&f4Year=&f6=&f5Day=&f5Month=&f5Year=&f7=&f10=&f9=&f3=&f8=&prox=1&f4=++&f5=++&db=cadeath1940&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=0&recid=985365&recoff=1+2+14 ''California Death Index, 1940-97''], hosted at Ancestry showing : "Ina Louise Burnett, born 8 Apr 1911 Arkansas, died 10 Jan 1958 Los Angeles County, father's name Creghton [sic], mother's name White"

===Secondary sources for 7===
*''One More Time'', by Carol Burnett (autobiography) ISBN 0380704498 or at a [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16931824&referer=one_hit local library]
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~joneshuff/Biographies/Jones_Biographies_1.htm Jones Biographies]