Haston V. Jones, M. D.; Washington Parish, Louisiana Submitted by Mike Miller ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Haston V. Jones, M. D. Perhaps no city of its size in Louisiana has a more capable body of medical practitioners at the present day than Bogalusa, and one of its representative members is Dr. Haston V. Jones, specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, a valued citizen and an overseas veteran of die World war. Doctor Jones comes of an old and substantial family of Washington Parish, Louisiana, where he was born February 9, 1854. He is a son of John K. and Mary Cornuie (Ezell) Jones and a grandson of William Jones whose long and useful life was spent in Washington Parish. John K. Jones was born on his father's plantation in Washington Parish, in 1839, and still resides on and operates his farm near Franklinton. He is a leading member of the Baptist Church, and in political life has always been a democrat. He married Mary Corinne Ezell, who was born in 1858, in Washington Parish, and they have had seven children born to them: Haston V.; Thomas F., who is a farmer near Franklinton; L. Edrena, who is the wife of Eugene P. Knight, a farmer near Franklinton; and Lorah, William W., Van Kinsa and Burt, all of whom are successful farmers and highly respected citizens of Washington Parish. Haston V. Jones attended the public schools in Washington Parish and in 1905 was graduated from the Franklinton High School, after which he entered Tulane University, New Orleans, and was graduated from its medical school in the class of 1909 with his degree of Medical Doctor. He located then at Zona, Louisiana, and engaged in a general medical practice there, meeting with a large measure of success that justified great hopes for the future. His plans, however, like those of thousands of patriotic youthful Americans, were entirely changed when his own country became involved in war, and in July. 1917. He volunteered for military service and was called on August 20, 1917. He was sent to Washington, District of Columbia, for six weeks, and was commissioned a first lieutenant in the United States Medical Corps, then was transferred to Camp Alfred Vail, New Jersey, and assigned as medical officer to the Four Hundred and Eighth Telegraph Battalion, Signal Corps, and as such went overseas. This band of troops reached Liverpool, England, November 22, 1917, and Havre, France, on December 19, 1917, afterward being stationed at strategic points, at Nevers, then at Bourges and finally at Conflans. In November, 1918, he was commissioned captain of the same organization. Doctor Jones returned to his own country in March, 1919, and was honorably discharged at Camp Dix, New Jersey, in March, 1919, his standing as a brave and efficient officer having been established and recognized before he left France. Upon his return to Louisiana Doctor Jones resumed and continued his practice at Zona until 1920, when he entered the Yew Orleans Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital for post-graduate work, and continued there as an interne from 1921 to 1923, in April of the latter year coming to Bogalusa, where he has been established ever since. He has built up a fine practice as a specialist, devoting all his time to his profession, and maintains his offices in the Greenburg Building on Columbia Street, this city. Doctor Jones married, in 1910, Miss Alice Richardson, daughter of Willliam and Leota (Burch) Richardson, the latter of whom resides near Franklinton. Mr. Richardson died there, formerly being a farmer and merchant. Doctor and Mrs. Jones have two children: Herschel Voit, born in 1912; and Gley, born in 1917. Doctor Jones has property interests here which include his comfortable residence, situated at 733 Avenue H, a well improved residential section of the city. With his family he belongs to the first Baptist Church, is an usher in the same and a teacher in the Sunday school. He is a member of many representative medical bodies, including the Washington Parish Medical Society, the Louisiana State Medical Society, the Southern Medical Association and the American Medical Association. NOTE: The referenced source contains a black and white photograph of the subject with his/her autograph. A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 195-196, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.