>From Intelligencer Dec. 25, 1867 Dr. B. O. Jones In Memoriam Another valued and worthy citizen has fallen! The firm grasp, the genial smile, the friendly welcome of our long-tried friend will greet us no more! Dr. B. O. Jones, a citizen of Atlanta most of the time since 1850 is gone. He died on his plantation in Fayette County on the 17th Dec. instant, of consumption from which for nearly a year, he had been almost constantly confined to his room. His long familiarity with the nature, tendency[?] and treatment of disease, gave him to understand too perfectly the probably fatal termination of such maladies; and for several months previous to his death he had indulged no hope of final recover. The writer has had the pleasure and advantages of a long and intimate acquaintance with Dr. Jones. For many years a successful and popular practicioner of medicine of the county in which he died, his energy and skill in affording relief to suffering humanity gave him a place in the hearts of those for whom he labored; and many a silent tear soothes the sad heart as he is borne to his last resting place. In the profession of medicine he was a pioneer in the section of his location and the ample store of practical knowledge gained by study and experience, fitted him for the advice necessary to younger members of the healing ce?t. Well do we remember the timely admonition as to the course of treatment applicable in the fatal epidemic of typhoid fever commencing in 1850. His suggestion of treatment, based upon the opinion of its adinamic[?] character and tendency, were soon embraced by the profession generally, and has been continued in practice to the present time. In this a blessing to humanity was bestowed, and with it he closed his professional career. Turning his attention to agriculture, he has for 17 years enjoyed the repose of the quiet pursuit; spending his time at his plantation or his home in town, accordingly as his interest and pleasure required. Though he never filled any political office, he was honored none the less by those who knew him in and out of the profession of his choice. We tender our hearty condolence to his bereaved family. Peace to his ashes. AMERICUS. The foregoing mournful tribute to a good man who has paid the debt which NATURE requires of us, is but just to his memory. For long years the PROPRIETOR (J. I. Whitaker) of the journal was intimate with, and enjoyed the friendship of the departed. He can therefore bear testimony to the many virtues of the deceased, and does not doubt that as his life was a blameless and highly useful one, so will he reap the reward which is pronounced in the "well done" to all who have discharged there duties to their fellow men. INTELLIGENCER Transcribed August 2009 by Linda Blum-Barton Reference Source - Franklin Garrett's Necrology Database at The Atlanta History Center; Fulton Co., GA. Microfilm - Other, Roll 6, Frame 33.