The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 206, Ed. 1 Monday, June 28, 1982 Page: 3 of 36
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Monday, Jiioe 21. 19B2
Baytonian ‘Deacon* Jones Named July 4 Parade Marshal
By LOUISE SHAW
Baytown's official
historian I. M
Deacon Jones will
climb aboard the ci-
ty’s oldest (ire truck
Saturday to serve his
city as honorary
parade marshal of
the seventh annual
July 4 parade, .an-
nounced Bernard
Olive, parade coor-
i believe 11
mg Baytonia
have serv ed U
well Dean
worked hard
community ft
years . it is
received a
rfM Ohve:
Jones, who
his work w
Baytown Hi
Museum was
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for this
r many
now he
little
.aid
is pro-
ve* Mex
ent his
was located north of
Dallas After serving
as editor and
publisher of the "The
Gunter Star" for a
few months he
entered North State
Teachers College In
With hts teach in it
Chambers c ounty
Two years lati
the teacher moved
Goose Creek
become associait
One of his first pro-
jects was to combine
a card catalog for
Sterling Municipal
Library designed to
index people and
places In an in-mile
radius of Ba vtown
books and a
reference book which
was an Index of
books Deacon liked
the idea so much he
wanted an index on
Baytown area
the sort of
ery library <
>n Card
ould like
don't
asked <
(this
inhandle
father
weekly
the Texas Pa
where his
published a
newspaper
In i 9 2 i h f*
graduated from
Gunter College which
den! s head
The next 40
were actively
turning on ii
Teaching bonds
however, -were'-not
. r v
Jones spent many
hours m the college
dawroofn teaching
ele ' - ■ .1= courses
..Retirement
brought a new life to
Johes
but rarely
ause you
m find a
citizen generous
enough to give the
time to develop such
a file
Jones began the
card catalog in
January 1966 ' The
idea was inspired by
a gift made to the
library in his honor
With money left from
Deacon's retirement
party friends made a
donation to the
library. The librarian
bought two Winston
Churchill history
MR AND MRS DEACON JONES
Longtime Baytoniaas
m2
DEACON JONES Is congratuated by Bob
Berthling then manager of Bonanza at a ban
quet held at the restaurant on senior Citizen s
Dayoo June 13.1974
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IN THE 1930s Deacon Jones stops In front of a
building located on the corner of North Main
and Texas Avenue
Hi
People Helping People
The United Way
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The project kept
Deacon engrossed In
books old newspa
pers, magazines,
microfilms of news
papers, census re-
cords and frequent
talks with "old Urn
mers in the area
Deacon donated to
the library many of
the special news
paper editions he sav-
ed for many years
These include'' the
Sun s D-Day edition
of Mav 8. 1945 The
Sun’s July 28, 1933
edition about the
opening of the Mor
.gaits Point. Ferry
and. the Baytown La
Porte Tunnel edition
of Sept 21,1963
Deacon has even
went out to the city
dump to collect
history. He was tak-
ing trash to the dump
when be noticed a
1962 copy of the
Baytown City Direc-
tory A collector's
item, the volume was
full of historical
material
Since the Chamber
of Commerce didn’t
have one. Deacon
gave the Chamber his
personal copy and
kept the throwaway
Jones credits the
Chamber with his
deep involvement in
histonai research
A member of the
Chamber since 1967
Deacon was en
c our aged by former
manager Dave
Moore to prepare a
brochure on Baytow n
history listing
historical markers in
the area
Deacon was also
named chairman of
a historical commit
tee In the Chamber
and was charged with
the responslbtltiy of
arranging special
programs on htstorv
ctl named him chair-
man of a museum
committee which
grew into the
Museum Advisory
Board In 1973 , he
served as general
chairman of the ei-
tv’s 25th anniversary
the Heritage Com nlan, Olive is asking on horseback or bicy
m it tee for the area residents to join des There will even
Bicentennial Com- In the Fourth of July be a number of
mission This group pacade downs walking the
later became known Clubs and organ- parade route' which
as the Bay Area tzations are tavited to will kick-off promptly
Heritage Society enter cars, floats and at 12 30 p m
In helping to honor pickup trucks Indt- To register, call
this generous Bayto- victuals are welcome 427-7477
celebrant
The foil
then Ma
nng year,
or Tom
Gentry signed a
proclamation naming
Deacon the official
historian of Baytown
Jones became in
voiv.ed in the city’s
July 4 festivities the
very first yegr when
he was a member of
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BAYTOWN S HISTORIAN Deacon Jones points to front page stories of
The Sun showing the opening of the Baytown La Porte Tunnel The
photograph was taken to the early 1960s
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 206, Ed. 1 Monday, June 28, 1982, newspaper, June 28, 1982; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1063356/m1/3/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.