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Waquoit Physician, 79, Prescribed for Rich and Poor for 33 Years, Dr. Lombard Carter Jones, for 33 years one of Falmouth's beloved physicians died early yesterday morning at his home in Waquoit. He was 79 and had been ill since last December. In spite of illness it is only a few months since he entirely gave up his practice. Old patients whom he had treated for a quarter-century continued to appeal to him, and in face of his own increasing ill health he continued to come to them. Dr. Jones was born on Cape Cod of a Cape Cod family. His birthplace was Sandwich, February 17, 1865. His parents were Isaiah P. Jones of Falmouth and Hannah C. Weeks Jones of Sandwich. He was graduated from Harvard college in 1887 and from Harvard medical school in 1890. He was married Sept. 29, 1908, to Mrs. Nina Dutton Everhart. They have one son, Major Louis B. Jones, stationed at Anniston, Ala. He practiced in Fall River, Melrose, and Malden before he settled in Falmouth in 1911. Such hobbies as a busy physician found time for were those which kept him out of doors in the countryside that he loved. He was interested in birds and bird study, and in the history and topography of the country around his home in Waquoit. The Cape Cod Indian relics which he presented to Peabody museum at Harvard were gathered in Waquoit fields. For holiday sport he loved fishing and had a real fisherman's pride in helping open the trout season.
Dr. Jones demonstrated his affection for Cape Cod by rarely leaving it. A few years ago when he made a trip to Boston he remarked as he took the train that it was his first trip off the Cape in four years. At that time, he added, he considered he must be one of very few Cape Codders who had never crossed the Canal bridges built in 1934.
He had not only a large practice through the town as our oldest-practising physician, but an unpaid practise among his less fortunate neighbors, and unobtrusively dispensed much practical charity. His friends tell of a family to which Dr. Jones sent beefsteak daily for three weeks, because the mother of the large family was denying herself to provide for her children on a small income. She needed nourishing food, not medicine, he said, and proceeded to see that his prescription was filled.
A Waquoit neighbor wrote of him a few years ago, "The doctor's car may be seen parked at any hour of the day or night, winter or summer, standing patiently before the home of rich or poor alike pretty nearly any place there is a road in Falmouth. Over 3,000 little Cape- Codders have found his kindly hand the first to "greet them as they drew their first breath of good Cape air."
Dr. Jones was a member of the Masons and of the Odd Fellows, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London, a member of Massachusetts Medical society, of the board of overseers of Harvard college, and of the Hakluyt Society. Besides his wife and son he leaves two stepdaughters, Mrs. Stead B. Rodgers of Hingham and Miss Mary Everhart of New York, two sisters, Miss Jane B. Jones of Sandwich and Mrs. Eliot W. Spurr of Melrose Highlands, and a brother, Frank L. Jones of White Plains,
N. Y. Private funeral services are to be held Sunday at his birthplace in Sandwich.
Contributor: Elaine (47932173) • [2]
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The Duttons of New England
1865 - 1944 (79 years)
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DUTTON, Nina
