The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-25
DEATH OF PATRIOT
AND SCHOLAR
Colonel Hamilton C. Jones
of Charlotte Expires
Suddenly.

Wilmington. N. c., Aug. 23.-Col.
Hamilton c. Jones, of Charlotte, one
of tha foremost lawyers in the State,
Gentleman of rare culture and re-
finement, died here this afternoon as
he was being taken up stairs on the
elevator at the James Walker Memoir
ial Hospital on his way back from
Southport, where he had been for rest
and recuperation after his arduous
work as counsel for defendant in the
recent Breese trial at his home.
Yesterday Col. Jones had a turn for
the worse and his physicians at
Southport, after communication by
telegraph with the family at Char
lotte and DR.. r. J. Brevard, decided
that it would be best to remove the
patient to the hospital in Whining
ton.
Accompanied by DR.. ]. A. Dozier,
Col. Jones was brought up to the city
at 1870 p. m. today and was met here
by DR.. Brevard, who arrived TINS
morning. 1T was seen that Col. Jones
was very weak, but it was hoped to
reach the hospital in time to save him.
His heart failed him. however, as he
was being taken up stairs. Death was
due to a complication of heart and
liver troubles. Mr.. Hamilton Jones,
Jr.. son of the deceased, remained
at Southport to arrange some business
and took a boat an hour later for
Wilmington, but when he arrived here
his father was dead.
The remains were conveyed tonight
to St. James Episcopal church where
they will remain until tomorrow after
noon. when they will be taken on the
train to Charlotte Twelve members
of the Wilmington bar will act as a
funeral escort to the station.
Sketch of His Life.
Col. Jones was born in Salisbury
November 3, 1897, and was therefore
in the sixty-seventh year of his age.
He received his early education under
Prof. BENZ Summers and entered the
State University graduating from
that institution in 1853. While at the
University he studied law under the
late Judge Battle and began his bril-
liant professional career in the office
of his father in Salisbury, having been
admitted to the bar in 1859. In poll
tics he was a determined Wing and in
1860 stumped the State for John Bell
for President.
Young Jones was first lieutenant of
the Rowan Rifle Guards and proceed
ed with that command to Fort john
son, on the coast, taking possession
even prior to the North Carolina ordi-
nance of secession as a State cause.
Col. Jones held that secession was en-
tirely inexpedent, but when it came,
he met the situation and linked his
fate with that of the Confederacy.
When the State troops were organ
lied he was appointed by Governor
Ellis CAPTAIN of Company X, Fifth
Regiment Soon after the battle of
williamsburg, where he was severe
y wounded in May, 1862, he was made
Lieutenant Colonel of the F'ifty-Sev-
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of Northern Virginia In the fall of the
same year, subsequently he was in the
battle of fredericksburg and Chan
cellorsVille and in the Gettysburg cam
paign.
At Rappahannock railroad bridge,
November 18th, 1863, he was captured
and later imprisoned in the old Capt.
tai prison at Washington, being later
transferred to Johnson Island, at
Lake Erie.
In February 1867 he was sent South
on special exchange and took COM
mand of his regiment before Peters
burg, Col. Archibald G. Goodwin hav-
ing been promoted to the rang of Brig
adler General.
After the war Col Jones resumed
the practice of law at Salisbury and
continued there until August 1865,
when he removed to Charlotte, form
ing a partnership with Gen. Robert ID.
Johnson, with whom he was associat-
ed for some twenty years. In 1869
Col. Jones was appointed to fill an I'M
expired term as State Senator and the
following year was elected to the same
office for full term. He was a mem
Der of the Senate during the Holden
impeachment trial.
Col. Jones in 1878 married Miss
Connie Meyers daughter of the late
Col. VIM. r. Meyers, of Charlotte,
and she with six children survive.
Mrs. Chas. Bryant. of San Francisco;
Mrs. Bruguiere, of San Francisco; Miss
Sada Jones, Mrs Henry McAden, Mr..
Hamilton Jones, Jr., and Master Will
liam Meyers Jones, of Charlotte.
Col. Jones had been a vestryman of
st. Peters Episcopal church of Char
lotte for many " ars.