| 2. | William Charles Jones, Sr., DDS  (1.Pernina1) was born on 28 Sep 1881 in Evant, Hamilton Co, Texas; died on 8 Dec 1957 in Baytown, Harris Co, Texas. Notes:
William Charles Jones married Mary Emma Stiles on 12/23/1906, Hamilton County Marriage Record Bk. 4, p. 409
His wife wrote an article about him in 1958. These are exerpts from that article:
Excerpts from "In Memory of My Husband" by Mrs. William C. Jones, published in The Hamilton Herald-News, February 21, 1958
[William Charles Jones, Sr., DDS]
"Dr. Jones was born September 28, 1881, in Evant, Texas. His father, James H. Jones, came to Texas in the early eighties. He was married to Pernina Jane Coker, and to them was born one son, William Charles, who was only about eight months of age when his father was critically injured (murdered).
??. He said his mother used to tell him all about his young father. She said, "Late one Sunday evening, after they had eaten an early supper, she was sitting churning, with her eight month old baby, William C. on her lap. Her husband came and told her he was going to take their horses and turn them into the pasture. As he rode off he waved his hand and smiled back at her and the baby. When he stopped at the pasture gate to open it, a man who had hidden in the brush shot him. Taking her baby in her arms, she walked to a neighbors for help. Then she walked nearly all night with the posse and officials trying to find her husband. They found him, she said, and his small Bible was in his pocket, the same Bible that he had used in the church Bible class that Sunday. In later months the man was found in the mountains of Kentucky, I am told.
"William C. always enjoyed talking about his childhood days over there in the Cove with his grandparents, the Winters. The little log house where he was born had been moved and now was used as a barn. He and his mother stayed with his grandparents about four years. Later she married Dr. W. H. McNeill. He said he wouldn't go to town with them for a while because he liked the country.
? "After finishing high school in 1901, William C. attended a business college in Galveston during the summer vacation. Then in the fall of 1901 he entered Dental College in Nashville. He was graduated in Dental Surgery from the University of Tennessee. He received the Medal of Honor in crown and bridge work. He was a Life Member of both State and National Dental Associations?. After finishing college in 1905 he located in Brady, TX.
On December 23, 1906, he was married to Miss Mary Stiles. This was a home wedding with many friends and relatives attending. Dr. Jones practiced dentistry there for forty years before moving to Houston.
They were the parents of three sons: William Charles Jones, Jr., James Marvin Jones, and Capt. Albert Pershing Jones, DDS
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William married Mary Emma Stiles in 1906 in Texas. Mary was born on 19 Jul 1884 in Hamilton Co, Texas; died on 21 Oct 1963 in Houston, Harris Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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1860 - 1932 (72 years)