Baxter Jones, my great and Emma Kathryn's great-great grandfather passed away yesterday at the age of 92. According to worldly standards he was a "simple" man. He was a farmer by trade who loved to crappie fish and rabbit hunt. The thing I remember him for was his yellow watermelons he sold each year. According to the world, these things wouldn't make him a very influential man, but influential man he was. He was proceeded in death by his first wife (Mattie Mae Porter Jones), his second wife (Kathryn Jones) and one son (Wayne Jones).
He had 10 children (one of which is my grandmother, Evelyn Frost), 25 Grandchildren (3 of which are Dianne Fowler, Phillip Frost and Christi Nelson), 65 Great-Grandchildren (5 of which are Chad Haygood, Heather Bozeman, Lindsey Frost, Syndey Nelson and Mackenzie Nelson) and 4 Great-Great Grandchildren (one of which is Emma Kathryn Bozeman).
Papa Jones may not have been a worldly man but he made a worldly influence. He had an influence on 104 people that were his immediate family. That's not including their wives/husbands or people in town every day. What a difference 92 years can make in a community.
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