Bizarre "Diseased" Texas Confederate Document Discharged from Service

This Bizarre Diseased Texas Confederate Document is for John Pride Jones of Bastrop, Texas who may have been the most unlucky man of Texas. Enlisting in Confederate service he was discharged from service for being "Diseased" was not to receive any pay for his service because he joined knowing he was diseased. While do not know how Jones was diseased we do know he lived past the Civil War until 1879 serving as the Sheriff of Bastrop County, Texas in 1866. His life seemed be filled with trial and tribulation throughout with loss of his fortune and wife.
 
Obituary 
 
Died at his residence, Smithville, Bastrop County, Texas, January 31, 1879,
John Pride Jones
His parents, Tignal Jones and Miss Amelia Mitchel High were intermarried January 25th, 1825, in Wake County, North Carolina, and John the second child, was born February 27, 1828. His father died March 30th, 1850. And the family, Mrs. Jones and sons, Vinkler and John removed to Texas in the year 1850, settled in Brown County, Texas. The brothers were farmers.
In 1859-60, John merchandised in Webberville, Texas, in partnership with a Mr. Ricks, to whom he sold out on the eve of the war. Mr. Ricks assuming the firms liabilities. On the 16th of July 1861, he intermarried with Miss Angelina Clanton, by whom he had one child, John Pride Jr. Mrs Jones died February 1867. And on the 10th day of December 1868, he intermarried with Miss M T Reding, of Bastrop, Texas by whom he leaves four children; J.E., M.E., Tignal, and Vinkler.
 Emancipationx reduced the deceased from affluence to proverty, battered with a portion of the 'firms' debt which Mr. Ricks had failed to discharge.
In 1866, he was elected Sheriff of his county (Bastrop County, Texas), and out of his first fee, though small, he satisfied the unpaid balance. In March 1867, because obnoxious to the madden element of morale, he with Maj. J.D. Sayers, were arrested by the military and carried to Austin. He was paroled, but soon after his return home, was removed from office, his offence being non orther than "Fidelity" to trust. 
Though this buffetted by Fortune, still not disparing, he commenced business as a county merchant at Smithville, with honesty as his capital, with industry and economy as his reliance. His character attracted custom and he was soon established to a thrifty business.
A year before his death, he again turn his attention to farming, animated with the hope of soon regainng his former compentency that in maturer and declining years he might oblige his wife and chidren with the compentency of independance and the advantages of social life.