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Dr. E. H. Jones, a prominent physician and surgeon of Viola, was born near Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co., Tenn., and was the eldest of three children born to James and Cecilia (Overall) Jones. The father died in 1857. E. H. Jones, grandfather of our subject, an extensive planter and stock raiser in Rutherford County, reared and educated him, giving him a university education. At an early age he chose the medical profession, and in the spring of 1870 he entered the drug store of H. J. White of Navasota, Tex., as clerk, in which business he remained until 1875, when he returned to Tennessee and began the study of medicine under Dr. G. W. Overall of Murfreesboro, now of Memphis. In 1876-77 he attended the medical college of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., and in 1877-78 he attended the medical college at Philadelphia, where he graduated with the highest honors. In 1878 he began the practice of his profession at Jacksboro, Tenn., where he remained one year, and in 1879 moved to Viola, at which place he has been very successful up to the present time. He was postmaster at Jacksboro, Tenn., for one year, and assistant postmaster at Viola three years. He was married March 11, 1886, to Fannie Potter, daughter of Thomas and Samantha (West) Potter of Smithville, Tenn. Both himself and wife are members of the Christian Church in good standing. Politically he is a stanch Democrat, and is highly respected in the vicinity both socially and as a physician.