Jones Cemetery
On 28 Dec 1894 he married Sarah Jane Davis in Beeville, Bee, Texas. They had seven children:
George Thomas "Tommie" Short who married Essie Thelma Wilburn;
Edmund Vaughn Short who married Nora Bell Utsey in 1919;
Clyde Short (17 May 1902 - 14 May 1984) who married Olive Maude Short;
Mary Frances "Frankie" Short who married Arthur Eugene Jackson;
Everett Short; and