Will Jones, a son of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Jones, lived with his brother, Thornton Jones, at Estacado, later moving with the family to Plainview, where he clerked for Thornton Jones, who had his grocery store in a tent.Will would go to see the Kizer girls and leave a tobacco box for the purchaser to make his own change. One day some cowboys came in and found him gone. They got some black axle grease from the hub of a wagon and wrote the following on the white duck walls of the tent: "If you want good tobacco, go to Jones´s. If you want Will Jones, go to Kizers." Will Jones finally painted this out.
He remained a bachelor and was killed by a horse. The horse fell on Will and he was found by his nephew, Ray. Ray got a wagon, hauled him to the house and put him in the bed. Will had a dog that followed him everywhere. Ray locked the dog out of the house and went for the doctor. When they got back, the dog would not let anyone go near the house. Ray had to go get a gun from a neighbor and kill the dog. Will lived six weeks.
Will Jones was surveyor of Crosby County at one time.
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