Dr. Joseph Edward Jones died at his home in Waxahatchie, Texas on September 1, 1955, of a brain hemorrhage. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Jones, and was born on November 4, 1887 in Hico. He attended Fort Worth University, then entered the old Physio-Medical College of Texas in Dallas. Dr. Jones completed his medical education at the Baylor University College of Medicine in Dallas in 1914. Later in his career, he took several postgraduate courses.
He began his practice in Boyce, and remained there for four years before moving to Waxahachie, where he practiced for 37 years. He was a member of the Ellis County Medical Society, the Fourteenth District Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He had served on the city council and was a deacon in the First Baptist Church.
During World War I, Dr. Jones was a first lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps, and was stationed at Camp Kearney, California. He and Miss Luda Laird were married on December 24, 1906 in Purves. Mrs. Jones survives, as do two daughters, Mrs. Romney Rudolph and Mrs. Wylie Motley of Waxahachie; four brothers, Robert Jones of Lubbock, Dee Jones and Leo Jones of Electra, and Herman Jones of Los Angeles. Two sisters; Mrs. J.F. Warren of Dublin, and Mrs. Charner Allen of Frederick, Oklahoma.
=== published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, November 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
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