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Herman "Wimpy" Jones (view source)
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==Background==
==Background==
Jones was one of eight children born in Webster Parish to John Jackson Jones (1867–1957) and the former Stella I. Boucher (1872–1946). His siblings were Casey, Clyde, Lena, Louie, Delta Jones Botzong (1891–1979), Augustus Melvin Jones (1893-1985), and Loy Jones (1903–1907), who died at the age of three when Herman was barely a year old.<ref name=ancestry>{{cite web|url=http://google.com/search?q=cache:n3rN1Shxg5QJ:wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi%3Fop%3DREG%26db%3Djackiewiley%26id%3DI00792+Drayton+R.+Boucher&cd=14&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us|title=Wiley Family of Shongaloo, Louisiana|publisher=Rootsweb ancestry|accessdate=June 23, 2009}}</ref>
Jones was one of eight children born in Webster Parish to John Jackson Jones (1867–1957) and the former Stella I. Boucher (1872–1946). His siblings were Casey, Clyde, Lena, Louie, Delta Jones Botzong (1891–1979), Augustus Melvin Jones (1893-1985), and Loy Jones (1903–1907), who died at the age of three when Herman was barely a year old.<ref name=ancestry>{{cite web|url=http://google.com/search?q=cache:n3rN1Shxg5QJ:wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi%3Fop%3DREG%26db%3Djackiewiley%26id%3DI00792+Drayton+R.+Boucher&cd=14&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us|title=Wiley Family of Shongaloo, Louisiana|publisher=Rootsweb ancestry|accessdate=June 23, 2009; no longer on-line.}}</ref>
Melvin Jones and his wife, the former Lillian David (1895–1972), had three children, who were a niece and nephews of Herman Jones: Melba Jones Lowery (1921–2009), James Thomas Jones (1916–1986), and Augustus L. "Loye" Jones (1931–2011), who opened Loye's Pharmacy in Minden in 1963.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nwlanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14818&Itemid=33|title=Obituary of Melba Jones Lowery|publisher=''Minden Press-Herald''|accessdate=July 3, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.press-herald.com/index.php/obituaries/1277-augustus-l-loye-jones|title=Augustus L. "Loye" Jones|publisher=''Minden Press-Herald''|accessdate=September 15, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref> Melba Lowery was the wife of Dennis Lowery (1922-2012), a native of Yellow Pine in Sabine County in east [[Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?n=dennis-lowery&pid=161045147|title=Dennis Lowery obituary|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=November 14, 2012}}</ref>
Melvin Jones and his wife, the former Lillian David (1895–1972), had three children, who were a niece and nephews of Herman Jones: Melba Jones Lowery (1921–2009), James Thomas Jones (1916–1986), and Augustus L. "Loye" Jones (1931–2011), who opened Loye's Pharmacy in Minden in 1963.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nwlanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14818&Itemid=33|title=Obituary of Melba Jones Lowery|publisher=''Minden Press-Herald''|accessdate=July 3, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.press-herald.com/index.php/obituaries/1277-augustus-l-loye-jones|title=Augustus L. "Loye" Jones|publisher=''Minden Press-Herald''|accessdate=September 15, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref> Melba Lowery was the wife of Dennis Lowery (1922-2012), a native of Yellow Pine in Sabine County in east [[Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?n=dennis-lowery&pid=161045147|title=Dennis Lowery obituary|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=November 14, 2012}}</ref>