Extracted from The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Wednesday, February 20, 1963

Elijah L. Jones

(Special to the Town Talk)

WINNFIELD, La. -- Funeral services for Elijah Lee Jones, 73, were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Cypress Creek Baptist church, with Rev. Louis Moffett officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery, under direction of Southern Funeral home.

Jones died Monday morning in a Winnfield hospital after a long illness.

Survivors are three brothers, Willis Jones of May Pe[a]rl, Texas, Henry Jones of Epps and Chester Jones of Pioneer; two sisters, Mrs. E. C. Woolsey of Amarillo, Texas, and Mrs. W. T. Ezell of Corpus Christi, Texas, and a number of nieces and nephews.