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The Battons resided in a house made of brown rock at the intersection of Goodwill and Marshall streets in Minden. The house is across the street from the boyhood home of the [[singer]] David Houston and near  the football star David Lee of the former Baltimore Colts. The Battons had three children: Jackie Batton Reeves (born August 1938) and husband, Henry Rogers Reeves (born May 1937), of Haughton in Bossier Parish; James Howard "Jimmy" Batton (1943-1997), a former Webster Parish sheriff's deputy, and Dorothy Gale Batton Smith (born 1946) and husband, Harold Eugene Smith (1940-2011)<ref>Harold E. Smith obituary, ''Minden Press-Herald'', November 3, 2011.</ref> of Waynesboro [[Virginia]]. There were also five grandchildren.<ref name=obit/>

The Battons resided in a house made of brown rock at the intersection of Goodwill and Marshall streets in Minden. The house is across the street from the boyhood home of the [[singer]] David Houston and near  the football star David Lee of the former Baltimore Colts. The Battons had three children: Jackie Batton Reeves (born August 1938) and husband, Henry Rogers Reeves (born May 1937), of Haughton in Bossier Parish; James Howard "Jimmy" Batton (1943-1997), a former Webster Parish sheriff's deputy, and Dorothy Gale Batton Smith (born 1946) and husband, Harold Eugene Smith (1940-2011)<ref>Harold E. Smith obituary, ''Minden Press-Herald'', November 3, 2011.</ref> of Waynesboro [[Virginia]]. There were also five grandchildren.<ref name=obit/>

At the time of his death, Batton was divorced from the former Louise Zeagler Jones (1916-2004),<ref name=louiseobit>{{cite web|url=http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.obits/14629/mb.ashx|title=Obit: Louise Jones|publisher=boards.ancestry.com|accessdate=October 19, 2012}}</ref> the widow of retired [[United States Army]] police officer and Lieutenant Colonel Rosamond Roy Jones (1912-1980) of [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitochnes]] and later Minden. A native of Caldwell Parish, Louise Jones Batton was heavily involved in the American Legion auxiliary and in various veterans causes. In 1993, she was named "Woman of the Year" in Minden.<ref>''Minden Press-Herald'', March 4, 1994, p. 1.</ref> Rosamond and Louise Jones had three children, Doris Jones Copeland, Rosamond Anne Gaston, and Phillip Lee Jones (born 1947). Rosamond and Louise Jones are interred at Gardens of Memory Cemetery  in Minden.<ref name=louiseobit/>

At the time of his death, Batton was divorced from the former Louise Zeagler Jones (1916-2004),<ref name=louiseobit>{{cite web|url=http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.obits/14629/mb.ashx|title=Obit: Louise Jones|publisher=boards.ancestry.com|accessdate=October 19, 2012}}</ref> the widow of retired [[United States Army]] police officer and Lieutenant Colonel Rosamond Roy Jones (1912-1980) of [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitochnes]] and later Minden. A native of Caldwell Parish, Louise Jones Batton was heavily involved in the American Legion auxiliary and in various veterans causes. In 1993, she was named "Woman of the Year" in Minden.<ref>''Minden Press-Herald'', March 4, 1994, p. 1.</ref> Rosamond and Louise Jones had three children, Doris Jones Copeland, Rosamond Anne Gaston, and Phillip Lee Jones (born 1947). Rosamond and Louise Jones are interred at Gardens of Memory Cemetery  in Minden.<ref name=louiseobit/>