{Hartland, West Virginia}...A West Virginia family that served and sacrificed for their country will be honored Saturday with a 2:00 P.M. dedication ceremony in which a span along WV Route 16 that crosses the Elk River at Hartland in Clay County will be named the Jones Brothers Memorial Bridge. The 80 year old bridge is slated for replacement, and the new structure will also be called the Jones Brothers Memorial Bridge. Four of the brothers died while in the military. Three were killed in combat during World War II. Ozro Jones, 28, died fighting on New Guinea in the Pacific in 1943. Burman Jones, 24, also an Army private, was killed during the Battle of the Bulge on the European front in January 1945. Army Signalman Johnnie Jones, 27, died five months later on Okinawa, just weeks before Japan surrendered. Eugene Jones, 25, killed in a 1950 crash during paratrooper training at Fort Benning, Georgia. A surviving brother, William Lawson Jones, who served during World War II and made a career of the U.S. Air Force, died in 1994.
