Claude Lanier Jones was born on August 17, 1872, in Caddo Gap, Arkansas, his father, Alfred, was 44 and his mother, Jane, was 35. He married Annie Olive Stevens – Jones on January 6, 1897, in Magnolia, Mississippi. They had two children during their marriage. He died in March 1954 in Shreveport, Louisiana, at the age of 81. Claude and (more…)