After college , Asberry taught music and performed in choirs in Nicodemus , Kansas , Kansas City , Missouri , and Denver , Colorado . She married Albert Jones , and the two of them moved to Seattle , Washington to take advantage of the opportunities available there in the midst of the rebuilding of the city after the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 . Shortly after arriving , Asberry became first organist and music director for the First African Methodist Episcopal Church . When Albert Jones died in 1893 , however , she returned briefly to her family in Kansas
Great Seattle Fire
Great Seattle Fire
Nettie Craig Asberry