His grandfather Joseph Jones was also a physician and served in the medical department of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

[1] Bayne-Jones attended Dixon Academy in Covington, Louisiana and then enrolled the Yale University, where he graduated in 1910 with A.B.

Bayne-Jones received a commission of First Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps, U.S. Army on August 7, 1915.

[4] Bayne-Jones Community Hospital at the US Army's Fort Polk is named in his honor, as is a professorship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

[3] His papers were donated to the United States National Library of Medicine in the late 1960s.