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Lena Barbara Jost

Born July 18 1889
Married June 25 1913
Died February 26 1967

Lena Jost Personal File
Lena Barbara Jost was born on July 18th 1889 as noted in the Missouri records of births. She was the fifth child and first daughter of Charles Jost and Augusta Emilie Hallbauer Jost. The family was living at 3103 Rutger in South St. Louis MO. In the 1900 Census she is listed at school so we know that she did complete some education.

Lena Jost Birth Record

In the 1910 census she is listed as a shirt ironer and she once worked at Banner laundry. On Monday November 4, 1912 she was discharged from the laundry. She and several of the other girls were unhappy with working conditions and were going to ask for changes. She was appointed first spokes women. After she spoke the others chose not to and she alone was fired.

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Lena Jost

Lena was raised in a large family with four older brothers and
four younger sisters. They lived in the residence that was behind the carriage maker and blacksmith shop owned by their father at 2723 Chouteau Ave in South St. Louis

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Lena  (left) with siter Lulu and friends

Lena, Lulu, Bertha Jost (from left) Bertha Metts and Ruth King

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The girls

On Wednesday evening April 12, 1913 she met Tony Pointer the man she was to marry. They were married on June 25, 1913 and the marriage license is noted in the June 26, 1913 Post Dispatch and were at the time living at 2550 Lafayette St. They had five children and Lena spent  most of her life raising them.

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Lena with Ralph and Virginia

Jost Pointer Marriage record

They lived in a number of places in St. Louis, Jennings and finally spending many years on Gerling Place in Overland.

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Lena Jost Pointer

Tony and Lena celebrated their fiftieth anniversary at the home of
their daughter Virginia in 1963. She received a special gift from Tony, a song he wrote in her honor. Their children joined in singing it for her.

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Tony and Lena’s Fiftieth Anniversary
From Left Rose, Anthony, Milton,
 Lena, Ralph, Thelma, Virginia


Anniversary Songsheet

Lena dies in February 26 1967 after a brief illness. She was cremated and her ashes rest in the Chapel of Memories Valhalla Cemetery, St. Louis County MO

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Chapel of Memories

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