Junius Wallace Jones Junius Wallace Jones , B . S . , ( 1890 – 1977 ) was a major general in the United States Air Force . He was Inspector - General of the United States Air Force . Early life . Jones was born in Jackson , Louisiana ( East Feliciana Parish ) on April 3 , 1890 to Philip Huff Jones , M . D . and Annabelle Smith . Jones was descended from a prominent local family , his paternal grandfather was John Welch Jones , MD . having been director of the East Louisiana State Hospital ( then called the Insane Asylum of Louisiana ) and his maternal grandfather having been a plantation owner . Jones came from a family with a military tradition . Jones descended directly from three soldiers , Samuel Jones , Thomas Jackson , and Samuel Hilton , who served in the Revolutionary War with General Francis Marion , known as " the swamp fox " . His grandfather , John Welch Jones , was in the Mexican - American War and served the army of the Confederate States of America as captain of a company of cavalry , the Plains Cavalry , which he organized . Jones received private primary and secondary education . He was attending Louisiana State University when he received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point , New York , which he entered on March 1 , 1909 . Jones graduated in 1913 with a bachelor of science degree . United States Army . Jones received his commission as a second lieutenant on June 12 , 1913 and was assigned to the coast artillery at Fort Monroe , Virginia . Jones was reassigned to Fort Winfield Scott , California in 1914 where he served with the 64th Company and later with the 27th Company . Jones was assigned to the United States Military Academy as an Instructor in 1916 . In June 1919 , Jones was ordered to military duty in Koblenz , Germany with United States Forces . In 1920 , Jones was ordered to Paris , France where he served in motor transport . Army Air Service . Jones was assigned to the Army Air Service in 1920 . He was assigned to Carlstrom Field , Desoto County , Florida where he trained as a pilot . Jones graduated from flight school in April 1920 , and thereafter was assigned to Post Field , Fort Sill , Oklahoma where he entered the Air Service Observation School from which he graduated in September 1921 . Jones then remained at Fort Sill where he attended the United States Army Field Artillery School . Jones was formally transferred to the Army Air Service in November 1921 , having risen to the rank of major . Jones was then assigned to Mitchell Field , Long Island , New York as air operations officer . In 1924 , Jones was moved to the Panama Canal Zone as operations officer at France Field . Army Air Corps . Jones was appointed Wing Operations Officer at Langley Field , Virginia in February 1927 . Jones entered the Air Corps Tactical School at Langley Field in September 1927 . Upon graduation , he was sent to the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth , Kansas from which he graduated in June 1929 . After that , he attended the Army War College at Washington , D . C . from which he graduated in June 1930 . Following his graduation , Jones was appointed to the Inspection Division of the Air Corp as chief of that division . Jones briefly served at March Field , California as air inspector , but soon entered the Naval War College at Newport , Rhode Island from which he graduated in June 1934 . Jones was then sent to Chanute Field , Illinois where he served as commandant of the Air Corps Technical School until March 1938 when he was sent to Denver , Colorado to establish Lowry Field . Jones was assigned to the Office of the Inspector General at Washington in August 1938 . He was given command of the 16th Bombardment Wing at Bowman Field , Kentucky in April 1941 . Army Air Forces . Then Brigadier - General Jones was assigned to the Technical Training Command at Greensboro , North Carolina , first as executive officer and later as commanding general , where , among other duties , he had oversight of Embry - Riddle School of Aviation training of enlisted personnel . In June 1943 he returned to Washington as air inspector of the United States Army Air Forces where he remained for the duration of World War II . Air Force . After the United States Air Force was created from the Army Air Forces in 1947 , General Jones remained as Air Inspector . He was assigned as commanding general of the Sacramento Air Material Area at McClellan Air Force Base , California in 1948 , a position in which he remained until his retirement in 1952 . Honors . General Jones was decorated with the Legion of Merit , the Distinguished Service Medal , and the Air Medal . Personal life . Jones married Mary Beirne Harman ( b . January 15 , 1891 ) , daughter of Edward Valentine Harmon and Marie Antoinette Kinney . Mary Beirne Harman Jones died on July 28 , 1917 in childbirth at the age of 26 . She is buried in Thornrose Cemetery at Staunton , Virginia . One child , Mary Beirne Jones ( Kerr ) , was born on Jul . 28 , 1917 . She married Hugh Holmes Kerr , Jr . ( b . 1912 ) . They resided in Staunton , Virginia . Hugh Kerr died in 1963 . Mary Bierne Jones Kerr died on September 23 , 1970 after a long illness , predeceasing her father . She was buried in Thornrose Cemetery . The Kerrs ' descendants continue to live in Staunton . Jones married Josephine Lanier , however the marriage did not last . Jones married Katherine Callahan , Although the marriage did not last , a daughter , Esther Marilyn Jones ( b . 21 May 1940 ) was born of this marriage . Jones ' father , Philip Huff Jones , MD , died on May 10 , 1946 , and was buried in Old Jackson Cemetery , Jackson , Louisiana . Jones ' s mother , Annabelle Smith Jones , died at Baton Rouge on December 3 , 1957 and was buried at Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery , St . Francisville , Louisiana . After Jones returned to live in Jackson , he married widow Anne Howell Turpin of Jackson on June 12 , 1969 at New Orleans . Jones ' younger brother , Philip Harold Jones , M . D . , D . Phil . , former Rhodes scholar ( 1918 ) , who practiced medicine in New Orleans , died on November 13 , 1970 at New Orleans and was buried in Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery , St . Francisville , Louisiana . Jones liked to ride horses , In addition , he was noted his ability to prepare a Sazerac cocktail . Retirement . General Jones accepted a position as airport director of Moisant Airport , a position which he occupied for some years . After he left that employment he moved to his family plantation near Jackson , Louisiana where he kept horses and rode frequently . He remodeled Centenaria , which is a house built in 1840 to serve as the residence of the president of Centenary College of Louisiana , where he resided with his wife , Anne Howell Jones , for the remainder of his life . Death . Jones died at Centenaria on 14 February 1977 after a stroke . Jones is buried in the cemetery of Grace Episcopal Church , St . Francisville , Louisiana . Anne Garnett Howell Jones lived until January 22 , 2001 when she died at Zachary , Louisiana . She was buried in Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery beside her husband .