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Jack Batton (December 16, 1913 – April 8, 1996) was a businessman who served from 1978 to 1982 as the mayor of the small city of Minden, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana. ==Background== A Minden native, Batton was the son of James Bryant Batton (1880-1939) and Nolie K. Batton (1881-1971). The senior Batton, formerly of Dubberly in south Webster Parish, was a former Webster Parish chief deputy sheriff, a two-term Minden police chief,〔''Minden Herald'', October 24, 1947, p. 1〕 and an unsuccessful candidate for sheriff in a special election held in 1933 after a devastating tornado struck the city. Batton graduated in 1932 from Minden High School, where in the fall of 1931 he played football.〔''Minden Press-Herald'', August 29, 1986, p. 24〕 His first wife, the former Dorothy Alice Shurtleff (December 18, 1914–May 14, 1973), was a daughter of A. C. Shurtleff (January 15, 1882 – September 16, 1928) and Cora Belle Shurtleff (February 1, 1888 – December 16, 1960). The Battons resided in a house made of brown rock at the intersection of Goodwill and Marshall streets in Minden. The house is across the street from the boyhood home of the singer David Houston. The football star David Lee of the former Baltimore Colts grew up in the same neighborhood block. The Battons had three children: Jackie Batton Reeves (born 1938) and husband, Henry Rogers Reeves (born c. 1937), of Haughton in Bossier Parish; James Howard "Jimmy" Batton (1943–1997), a former Webster Parish sheriff's deputy, and Dorothy Gale Batton Smith (born 1946) and husband, Harold Eugene Smith (1940-2011),〔Harold E. Smith obituary, ''Minden Press-Herald'', November 3, 2011〕 of Waynesboro, Virginia. There were also five grandchildren.〔 At the time of his death, Batton was divorced from the former Louise Zeagler Jones (1916-2004),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Obit: Louise Jones )〕 the widow of retired United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Rosamond Roy Jones (1912-1980) of Natchitochnes and later Minden. Louise Jones Batton was heavily involved in the American Legion auxiliary and in various veterans causes. Rosamond and Louise Jones had three children, Doris Jones Copeland, Rosamond Anne Gaston, and Phillip Lee Jones (born 1947). Rosamond and Louise Jones are interred at Gardens of Memory Cemetery in Minden.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jack Batton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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