The Mebane Family of North Carolina:Information about Eba Jones
Eba Jones (b. 1898, d. 13 Jan 1951)
Notes for Eba Jones:
Eba Jones was a career Coast Guard Officer. He had only a grade school education, but with the help of his second wife Emily became very educated. He achieved the level of Lt. Commander in the USCG and was the officer in charge of communications for the district from Chincoteague to Fort Macon NC.
He had lost his first wife to the influenza epidemic and had a young daughter at the time he met Emily Robbins who had lost her husband in the same epidemic and had a young son, Charles. They married and lived in Chincoteague where the two children grew up.
More About Eba Jones:
Burial: 1951, Chincoteague VA.
More About Eba Jones and Emily Amelia Short:
Marriage: Lewes, DE.