Martha Rofheart

Born Martha Jane Jones, May 27, 1917 in Louisville, Kentucky to Evan Jones and his wife the former Noreen Sorrell. Noreen died in the 1918 flu pandemic when Martha was a year and a half old; with her young father unable to care for her, she was raised by her paternal Grandparents, Owen Jones and his wife Elizabeth or Lizzy, who were of Welsh and Scottish extraction. She grew up in the Portland neighborhood of Louisville, surrounded by a large …