James Wesley Jones of Kentucky was a special guest of honor of the Cherry Blossom Festival on Saturday. Jones is the grandson of William Jones, a Cherryvale city marshal who was gunned down while issuing an arrest warrant in 1906. Little was known about the slain Cherryvale marshal until a great-nephew, James Converse of Overland Park, Kan., began a hunt for information, which brought him to Cherryvale on several occasions during a 10-year period. He was alarmed to find not only that Cherryvale did not have a plaque in honor of the slain marshal but that Marshal Jones’ gravesite did not have a tombstone. With the help of Cherryvale police chief Matt Dennis (right), Converse was able to obtain funds to have the tombstone dedicated at Fairview Cemetery last year and also have a plaque erected in Marshal Jones’ honor at City Hall last Saturday. Converse brought several members of the Jones family to Cherryvale for a ceremony that named James Wesley Jones as an honorary member of the Cherryvale Police Department. James Wesley Jones is among the few living descendants of Marshal William Jones. (Photo by Andy Taylor