Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Deputy Sheriff William Birl Jones

Roane County Sheriff's Office, Tennessee

End of Watch Thursday, May 11, 2006

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Reflections for Deputy Sheriff William Birl Jones

hey its been a long time since you been gone thanks for helping me get clean.

Thanks lots

Casey D/D
Brushy Mountain

March 14, 2007

Well Birl...where do I start? I wish you were here so much!!! Life is really trippin me out. Trevor is going to be a father. Todd is getting married. What happened? It was just yesterday those guys were wrestling with you and you could carry them hanging onto your forearm. I hate facing each day without you. This is the time of year when you would be getting prepared to plant your garden and your flowers. What I can't believe is you won't be here on this Earth for Easter. You always loved that holiday best. Last year had to be the one that will always be with me forever. The boys weren't here to color eggs with you...and there you sat....your boiled eggs and your bowls of color. I laugh as I think about it. You enjoyed coloring those eggs by yourself.
I read here that Lynn and Eden are having a baby too. I know you smiled on that!!!!! I remember you talking, more than once, about how so many people had babies they didn't really want and wouldn't take care of and how you wished Lynn would get pregnant so her and Eden could have a child of their own. You always said if anybody deserved a baby it was Lynn.
It's really hard to live life without ya Jones. I cope. Jennifer is always there for me. Jaime gets me laughing so hard about some of the things you guys have done over the years. Its always good to hear the Jones stories.
Jonesy finally impregnated Peaches. I wish you you could be here but in the big picture I know God had other plans for you. Oh yea what about Jennifer having a baby? Is the world ready for a baby Tubby? I know your saying..."don't drink the water".
Miss ya but your in my heart forever.
Tanyea

March 13, 2007

Hey Bill,
Well, i was just sitting here missin' you and wanted to tell you i will be moving to south carolina soon. I've met someone and will be getting married soon. He is a k-9 officer...........i know, i can hear ya now, "keep away from those damn cops", lol, but he's a good one! I ran into Tammy in walmart the other day, she's doing good. I can't believe it's almost been a year since you've been taken from us............i still can't believe you're gone. Well,i should get back to work;) I love ya!
shannon,xoxoxox

shannon heath, emtp
good friend

March 12, 2007

hey daddy,It's me melody!how are you doing, i'm doing fine!I miss you alot!ooh yea guess what...I mad a honor roll again!"yea for me"!this is like my second or third time maken it and i'm so happy and my mommy and tiffany is to!I can't wait till tomarrow"friday"!Me mommy,tiffany and maby ashley we all get to go up to mammaw jones house and i can't wait!when ever we go up their me mommy and tiffany and justin gets to go to walmart and get the cinderlla 3 movie and i can't wait!"I can't get that movie out of my head"!And i think i get to get some new summer clothes too!I really don't want justin to go because he's mean to me and astralla but tiffany wants him togo and i don't like that!Their both mean to me!and rude and i think they need to learn some manners!I bet if u were down here you would teach them some manners!!! welp i better go ok write back to you latter!!!
Ilove you very very musch daddy
Love, melody jones p.s. tell mammaw i said hi too!

melody jones
daughter

March 8, 2007

Hey Bubba,
It's me just wanted to let you know you are going to be an uncle at last from us. I wish you and Dad could be here. We are 14 weeks along so far and we have heard the heart beat twice so far.I really miss you guys so much. Please watch out for us down here we love you.

Lynn Jones
baby sister

March 7, 2007

deputy jones, i see how your family misses you and how much you meant to them. you will have a grandbaby named after you soon. what a wonderful legacy to leave behind. my father has been gone 16 years and had his grandson named after him in november. we cant understand why tragedies like this befall us, only god knows why. he takes the best. he has plans for great men like you and my father. i always heard that god never puts on us more than we can handle. i am sure your family feels as i do. i will be so glad when god realizes that i am not 10 feet tall and bullet proof. thank you for your service. i spent some time working in harriman a few years ago. beautiful country and beautiful people. to your family; please be strong. it is a long hard road ahead of you. it doesnt get any easier. just remember this man loved you and showed his love with this utmost sacrifice. bless you all. good luck with the new baby. you will all be in my thoughts and prayers.

kimberly kidwell
daughter of fallen stanford ky officer gary kidwell

March 4, 2007

“It's knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk … That keeps you in the backroads
By the rivers of my mem'ry - That keeps you ever gentle on my mind
… And for hours you're just gentle on my mind
… Tears of joy might stain my face, and the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind
... But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads - By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind
… I close my eyes and see … you waving from the backroads
By the rivers of my mem'ry -
.. Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind”

March 2, 2007

Hey Boss,

Just letting you know things are still going as best as they can right now. We are bout to have a little Tubby, and you are bout to have another grand baby. Just want to remind you that you will always be missed.
David

David Laxton
Friend

February 26, 2007

WE LOVE YOU

tiffany and jamie

February 20, 2007

Jones,

Well…I just wanted to be the first one to let you know that I have decided to get married. I really spent way too much money on her ring. Nope…it is not Jo or Krista, but it is Shelby. She is a really good Christian girl with everything going her way in life. I really wish that you would have gotten a chance to meet her. You would have loved her just like everyone else. She knows a lot about you from hearing me talk about you. I tell her stories about how we named “Jonesy,” you fighting on the “monkeys” at Silver Springs on the glass bottomed boats, etc… She hears some much about you sometimes (when I am in my moods) that her ears start to bleed. Anyways, no one has forgotten about you and people everyday are still learning about you influence, such as the future Mrs. Wright.

Todd Wright
Step-Son

February 19, 2007

Happy Valentine's Day Bill!!
Well, I'm almost 35 weeks along now. We will be leaving soon to go to Tennessee to have the baby. We are naming him William David. You will be missed, as always.
We love you.
Michelle

Michelle Jones
Daughter-in-law

February 14, 2007

Happy Valentines Day!

February 14, 2007

HEY JONES. ITS BEEN A RUFF DAY TODAY. ME AND KEAHEY TALKED ABOUT YOU ALL DAY AND IT HAS REALLY GOT TO ME. MORE AND MORE EACH DAY WE TALK ABOUT YOU, ABOUT HOW WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR VOICE OVER THE RADIO. YOU HAD A TONE ABOUT YOU ON THE RADIO THAT EVERYONE WOULD RECOGNIZE AND RESPECT AS SOON AS THEY HEARD IT........AND WE MISS IT. WELL I GUESS YOU KNOW I WENT BACK TO ROCKWOOD. ROCKWOOD IS WHERE I FIRST MET YOU, AND THAT IS WHERE YOU TRAINED ME, AND I MUST SAY IT FEELS MUCH BETTER BEING AROUND THE AREA THAT YOU WORKED THE MOST. TAMMY AND JENN HAVE BEEN SPENDING ALOT OF TIME TOGETHER HERE IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS, IF THERE NOT AT THE HOUSE PLAYING HOCKEY ON THE PLAYSTATION, THERE AT THE HOCKEY GAME, OR SPENDING MONEY THAT WE DONT HAVE...HAHAHA. TREVORS BEEN WITH US TO, HE HAS REALLY BEEN KEEPING YOUR SPIRIT ALIVE FOR EVERYONE, YOU WOULD BE PROUD. HE IS SUPPOSE TO GO TO HPD AND ME AND SOME OF THE GUYS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET HIM THE STUFF HE NEEDS TO START IT, JUST WISH I COULD GIVE HIM MORE. ALSO TAMMY HAS BEEN HERE FOR ME AND JENN DURING HARD TIMES AND SHE HAS HELPED ALOT IN MORE WAYS THEN JUST ONE. I REALLY LIKE BEING AROUND THEM AND HOPE THAT WE KEEP ON SPENDING TIME WITH THEM. I KNOW THAT IF YOU WERE STILL HERE AND SOMETHING HAPPENED TO ME YOU, TAMMY AND TREVOR WOULD BE HERE FOR MY FAMILY BECAUSE THAT WAS THE TYPE OF PERSON YOU WERE. IT DIDNT MATTER WHAT WAS GOING ON IN YOUR OWN LIFE, YOU WERE ALWAYS THERE FOR US AND IM JUST TRYING TO DO THE SAME. YOU ARE MISSED SO MUCH BY ALL, ITS JUST SO HARD TO TALK ABOUT IT SOMETIMES. THERE HAS BEEN TIMES WHERE ME AND JENN START TALKING ABOUT YOU AND I JUST LOOSE IT. YOU WERE THE ONE THAT SHOWED ME HOW TO DO THE JOB THAT WE LOVE TO DO SO MUCH, AND WAS LIKE A FATHER TO ME. WHEN MY DAD FOUND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU HE WAS SO UPSET. HE ONLY MET YOU A FEW TIMES BUT HE SAID THAT HE KNEW THAT YOU MENT ALOT TO ME CAUSE I ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT YOU WHEN I WAS STILL LIVING AT HOME. I KNOW THAT HE RESPECTED YOUR FOR TAKING CARE OF ME WHEN I STARTED THIS JOB. I KNOW THAT WHEN TAMMY CAME OVER TO MY PARENTS HOUSE FOR CHRISTMAS AND I WAS THANKING MOM AND DAD FOR HAVING HER OVER, THEY TOLD ME THAT THEY WOULD LOVE FOR HER TO COME TO THE HOUSE ANYTIME AND THEY WERE SO GLAD TO SEE HER, "THAT REALLY MADE ME HAPPY". EVERYTIME I SEE MICHAEL HERRALL I THINK ABOUT HIM YELLING AT YOU THE THE P.A. OF HIS PATROL CAR AND YOU JUMPING 10 FEET IN THE AIR. THAT ALWAYS MAKES ME LAUGH. WHEN ME AND KEAHEY LEFT FROM WORK TONIGHT WE BOTH SAID THAT WE WERE GOING TO GO HOME AND RELAX THE WAY THAT JONES WOULD. I CAN ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT WHEN YOU WOULD LEAVE THE OFFICE YOU WOULD CUP YOUR EAR AND SAY "CAN YOU HEAR IT? CAN YOU HEAR IT CALLING MY NAME? GOTTA GO FELLOWS, I CANT LET IT WAIT ON ME". MISS YOU SO MUCH JONES. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE MINE AND EVERYONES ELSES HERO. LOVE YA

Jamie Melton "Tubby"
RPD

January 20, 2007

hey bill,
Well whats going on up there.??? lol..anwyays i got through my first day of my semester...Ken Mynatt is one of my teachers lol...i got on at HPD we are just waiting on the city concils approval. But anyways i can't stand this place around here anymore..too many idots. Roane County gets worse and worse everyday. Anyways miss you alot and all the days everyday we had. i still remember waiting for you to get off work and come home, but im going to get off here cause i got some stuff to do..love ya

Trevor Wright
Step son

January 16, 2007

Hi daddy,
I love you,and miss you,and mom misses you,I made the honnor roll 2 times at skooland I hope you are proud of me.
Mom said that you would be!
I wish you were here to see me go on stage to get my award but, I know you are watching from heaven!
You and mammaw keep watch over me and mom,and I know we will be ok!And we'll see you in heaven someday!!
I love you Melody Jones

melody jones
daughter

January 14, 2007

I know we did not aways see eye to eye but I do miss seeing that smile when I drove by and you were out working in the yard. Danny and Thomas still miss you too. Thomas wears your band every day. And knowing how much you wanted to joining the SCV . He wears it in ever reenactment we do so you will be a part of it.

vada
friend

January 12, 2007

Bill,show me a sign that you are with me please

friend
friend

January 12, 2007

hay bill your birthday and christmas has came and gone and the miss for you is still as if it was yesterday that those cowards took you from us my family and i are still full of hurt because i know had they giving you a chance to know you then they would of known out of all the officers that we have you would of been the one that would of helped them the mostand tried to of treated them better than they had delt with before and gave them a chance like no one else had before thats why it upsets me so bad for the way they did you i feel soory for them in a way because they really missed out on knowing such a wonderful person they allowed there selves to be cheated out of so much you as a friend thats what is so sickning about it god sent one of his on to help them here on earth and look what they did to you they really missed there chance here on earth and in heaven i know in my heart that justice will be done to these to men for the brutal ambush that they did to you every body knows that there was no sense in there action that day bill you will always be missed and loved everyday in our family forever and you always will p.s. i am back home and we are doing great i love him more now than i ever have im sorry i left in the first place i live daily on what you told me thanks bill for being my friend
love always ,kid

kid
friend

January 12, 2007

WE LOVE YOU BAM BAM
~LUV~TIFFANY AND JAMIE


UR OUR HERO!!!!

tiffany and jamie
his daughters sister

January 9, 2007

Hey Bubba,I finally have the strength or courage to write for a while I was so mad and didn'twant to write anything else.I know that you know how I feel so what is the point just to let others read my hopes and dreams and there is a lot of them. I MISS YOU SO MUCH you were here it just is so unfair.Our birthdays came and went you should have been here. I am so mad at those people for taking you and the nature of things here is so crazy. Mom misses you so much,everyone here misses you.It was a very sad day knowing you weren't going to be here,but a least you got to be with DADI know how much you loved him.Who do I have to hold on to now in our family pictures you were the one I was by all the time.You were my Hero.Maybe I shouldn't write all this down,but I had to get it out.I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU.Your sister Lynn

Lynn Jones-Inga
Sister

January 7, 2007

hey bill,it's me tiffany i'm sittin here at skool w/ my friends and it's like so boarning to death of course skool normally is but anyways melody misses you alot and she talks about you all the time!and it's like really sad because i can understands the way she's feelen but i can't feel the hurt that her and everyone up in crossville is feelen!on december10,2006,mine and melodys mamaw died and i well i'v only lost i person and melody lost two and i can understand why she's really sad and everything but she just don't like to show it!and i'm hafting to deal with stupid problems in my life and i can't talk to anyone about them and that makes me even more sader,and really the only person i can talk to about my problems is lynn and sometimes justin"depends what day it is" but i better go b4 the bell rings ~luv ya always~tiffany harwell

tiffany harwell
daughters sister

January 5, 2007

Bill was amazing. He meant everything to me and I would do anything to have him right here with me. I'm sittin here beside his kid, wishen that I never did what I did. If he could see me now he would be so proud. I love you Bam Bam.

Jamie Luffman
Neice

January 5, 2007

Bam Bam, Happy New Year. Love you forever and ever.

January 1, 2007

Hey Sgt Jones,I've been thinking about you alot and what I need to express,(I still don't never will). I along with all your friend's miss you EVERY DAY! Bill there is no way I can ever put into words what impact you had upon my life. I talk to Kris,Kelly and Wes at least every other day and we alway's talk about you and with the exception of one memory we are always laughing telling stories about what jones had said or done. Sarge I wish you were here with us, your family and friends and I know you are still with us just in a diffrent way. I was in Rockwood and talked to Underwood and while he was asking me how I was he almost lost it and we just got into our cars and left this was Monday and I then went to your Memorial at the T## and Thumb graveyard (ha ha ha) at least thats what you advised me and showed me why they called it that, and your stone is a fitting tribute to you.While I was there memories just rushed through my head about how fun it was just to be around you. I recalled when I would ask you to talk like Eyore on Winne the Pooh 'which kinda made me fell sorry for you the way you said "oh well whats the use nobody cares anyhow", and then you would do that Jap guy on Gilligans island when you wore your glasses down low on you nose and showed your teeth "Stop steaming up My Grasses" and then the Grinch routine always around Christmas and I would tell you Sgt You know you love Christmas and finally you would agree thing you hated was people forgot the real reason for Christmas and we would be riding around and Elvis's blue Christmas would come on and we would sing it.Bill you were a GOOD FRIEND and I was lucky to call you friend I have said enough for now sorry for being so late on posting.Wes called me and told me that he had found some classic "jones" on some of his old video tapes and am looking forward to seeing. To the family of Bill I want you to know that I am thinking of all of you during this time and if I can ever be of help anytime contact me and I will most certainly do what I can. Sgt Jones they say that life is a ride I want to thank you for allowing me to climb in and ride with you. Happy Belated Birthday and Merry Christmas Sgt Jones I will NEVER FORGET YOU Your Friend Matt Armes

Deputy Sheriff
Morgan Co Sheriff's Dept. Friend Co-Woker

December 23, 2006

Ok, i just got off the phone with Kelly.......and you don't want any stupid flowers for your birthday, so i'm gonna bring you a cup of coffee and cigarettes, ok? love you;)

shannon heath, emtp
good friend

December 21, 2006

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