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Jones died at the age of seventy-six in Lincoln General Hospital in Ruston. He had complications from gall bladder surgery.<ref name=nyt/> He was a deacon at the New Rocky Valley [[Baptist]] Church in Grambling. Jones was survived by two sons, Ralph Jones, Jr., and John Arthur Jones, both of [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]], three grandsons, Ralph Eldridge Jones, Ellison Emerson Jones, and Warren Waldo Jones, and five sisters. The obituary does not indicate whether Jones was divorced or a widower; his wife, Mildred, is not listed as a surviving widow. Nor is there an indication of a burial site.<ref name=rwej/>

Jones died at the age of seventy-six in Lincoln General Hospital in Ruston. He had complications from gall bladder surgery.<ref name=nyt/> He was a deacon at the New Rocky Valley [[Baptist]] Church in Grambling. Jones was survived by two sons, Ralph Jones, Jr., and John Arthur Jones, both of [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]], three grandsons, Ralph Eldridge Jones, Ellison Emerson Jones, and Warren Waldo Jones, and five sisters. The obituary does not indicate whether Jones was divorced or a widower; his wife, Mildred, is not listed as a surviving widow. Nor is there an indication of a burial site.<ref name=rwej/>

In 2006, Frances Swayzer Conley of [[Shreveport]], an [[English]] professor at Bossier Parish Community College in [[Bossier City]], published the illustrated book ''Prez Lives! Remembering Grambling's Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones''.<ref>{{cite web|url=|title=''Prez Lives! Remembering Grambling's Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones''|publisher=Trafford Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4120-9653-9|accessdate=July 7, 2011}}</ref> Jones developed the slogan: "Grambling: Where Everybody is Somebody."<ref name=rwej/>

In 2006, Frances Swayzer Conley of [[Shreveport]], an [[English]] professor at Bossier Parish Community College in [[Bossier City]], published the illustrated book ''Prez Lives! Remembering Grambling's Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones''.<ref>Frances Swayzer Conley, ''Prez Lives! Remembering Grambling's Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones'' (Trafford Publishing,2006); ISBN 978-1-4120-9653-9.</ref> Jones developed the slogan: "Grambling: Where Everybody is Somebody."<ref name=rwej/>

Black author James O. McHenry refers to Jones, accordingly:

Black author James O. McHenry refers to Jones, accordingly: