The son of Hall of Fame horse trainer Ben A. Jones, Jimmy Jones was born in Parnell, Missouri.
In 1948, Jimmy Jones stepped aside as the trainer of record for Citation to allow his father to be officially designated as the trainer for the Kentucky Derby.
Jones spent his final years in full retirement in his native Missouri where he passed away at the age of ninety-four at a nursing home in Maryville.
Horace P. Jones was one of the white employes who accompanied the Indians to the new location, where the two agencies were consolidated and where he was retained as an employe.
That HoraceJones was not always on duty at the Washita Agency, during the interval between its establishment and the outbreak of the Civil War, is evident from the fact that he related to Hon.
HoraceJones was sitting quietly in his favorite place in front of the traders’ store, one day, when, with a whoop, a yell and a flourish of six-shooters, a vision of long hair, fringed buckskin shirt and broncho steed broke through the horizon.
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