Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1899-09-20
CAPT. JERE JONES DEAD.
Prominent Citizen of Western Han
cock County Gone.

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cock County Gone.
WEST BROWNSVILLE, Sept. Is (special)-
Capt. jeremiah Jones died here Friday,
Sept. Is, aged seventy-one years, five
months. lie was buried with masonic
honors, funeral services being held at the
| Congregational church, Rev. J S Richards
| officiating.
| Capt Jones was widely and favorably
| known, and his loss will be felt by many
/ outside the circle of his own kindred.
! His life has been given largely to maritime
! pursuits. Beginning to follow the sea at
/ an early age, he was master mariner at
( the age Of eighteen years, and was actively
engaged as such for the succeeding forty
years OF his lie. During that time he was
shipwrecked but once, though he rounded
the Cape of Good Hope some twenty times,
visited Glasgow and other ports of Great
Britain and northern Europe, and made
frequent voyages to the ports of the
| Mediterranean sea.
He retired from life upon the ocean in
1856, at the age of tifty-eight. On shore
he built and put into the water five vessels
of large tonnage for those days; but after
the decline of American shipping, when
the value of property in vessels became so
much less, he turned his attention chiefly
to farming, being perhaps the largest and
most prosperous farmer of his town, as he
VAS one of the most enterprising. He was
large shareholder in the grange store
and grange property of his town.
Capt. Jones was a man of sterling char
acter, "a man OF deeds rather than of
words" lie was not given to making
fair promises to be forgotten, but was
always to be depended upon to do the
right thing. He was great hearted man,
kind and generous toward every case of
need and toward every good cause. He
was willing to sacrifice his personal ease
| and comfort, and would not only give his
money but himself to hard work to pro-
mote the deserving cause or help needy
and deserving fellow being. Though
man of few words, he was yet most cordial
in manner and friendly in his intercourse
with others, treating alike high and low,
rich and poor with a kindness and
| friendliness not always common to the
stirring man of affairs.
| One who has seen Capt. Jones in his
| home cannot but assent to his noble quail
| ties as a husband and father. He was
most faithful to every obligation, untiring
in effort to promote the welfare and happi-
ness of dear ones, and always ready, how
ever wearied he might be, to respond to
their every need or wish. Even amid the
extreme suffering of his last Illness he was
| to- 10,
ones about him.
! He leaves a wife, two sons and three
daug hters, all of whom were present at
his death.
Capt. Jones was a stalwart republican.
He ably represented his district in the
Maine legislature of 1872. He Vas a
member of Hancock lodge, +. and A. M,
having been made Mason in 1865. The
large attendance of masonic brethren at
| his funeral showed in what esteem he was
! held in that order.
He became member OF the Congrega-
tional church in West Brooksville, March
! 80, 1906; and his devotion to the cause of
| his Master and the generous support he
has been willing to render, greatly en-
deared him to the pastor and brethren OF
his church. Most truly in this relation he
Will be greatly missed
As a Christian man, Capt. Jones Wa
not wont to talk of his religious expert
ence, but knowing him intimately as his
pastor, the writer believes that his rela-
| tons with his Saviour We're most tender,
sweet and precious. He suffered intensely
in his last illness, but found grace to help
him bear it with patience and fortitude.
Realizing toward the last that he could
not recover he said to friends about him
SIT is all right; all right. My hope is in
the fact that God SO loved the world that
He gave His only begotten Son. Blessed
hope indeed! May it be the anchor of
every soul when it comes ia the hour of
dissolution,