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JONES, Heber<\/strong>, physician; born Phillip Co., Ark. Sept. 11 1848; English descent; son of John Thompson and Sarah Caroline (McEwen) JONES<\/strong>; paternal grandparents John and Annie (Scott) JONES<\/strong>, maternal grandparents Robert H. and Hettie (Kennedy) McEWEN<\/strong>; educated at Nottingham Academy, Tenn., University of Va.; graduated from medical department University of Va., M.D., July 1, 1861; entered the practice of medicine in early life; married Valerie WOOTEN<\/strong>, Dec. 23, 1873; Master Mason, DeSoto Lodge; member Shelby Co. Medical Society, American Assn., Memphis Country Club, Hatchie Coon Hunting and Fishing Club; Democrat; president of State Board of Medical Examiners ten years, president State Board of Health eight years president Board of Health City of Memphis, Tenn., eight years; surgeon Tenn. State Guards, with rank of Colonel; in 1898 was presented by the citizens of Memphis with a silver service as a free will offering and in 1905 he was given, by the citizens of Memphis a check for $10,000 in appreciation of his services as head of quarantine against yellow fever; member of Episcopal church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Memphis JONES, Heber, physician; born Phillip Co., Ark. Sept. 11 1848; English descent; son of John Thompson and Sarah Caroline (McEwen) JONES; paternal grandparents John and Annie (Scott) JONES, maternal grandparents Robert H. and Hettie (Kennedy) McEWEN; educated at Nottingham Academy, Tenn., University of Va.; graduated from medical department University of Va., M.D., July […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,79,4419],"tags":[263,912,1460,4396,1475],"class_list":{"0":"post-7823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-j","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-jones","10":"tag-kennedy","11":"tag-mcewen","12":"tag-scott","13":"tag-wooten","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10741,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7823\/revisions\/10741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}