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nalneti until the conclusion of peace.
In the Russian Service.

11r afterwards entered the Russian
service at tile Invitation Of Catherine
the Great and while he won decisive
bn tile nRntnst the Turks, Jealous st-
periors took al the credit TO them
selves, and Jones, after trying III VAN
to stand against the lntrigtes against nm.
| Quilted the Russian service III p1sg ,''l,
and returned to Paris. He lived ~ tnat
| city until his death. Jniy Is, 792. 10
was tho not OF royalty and nobilitysand
| his vide acquaintance among neinners
, OF the ruling class gave him very
clear insight hto conditions In France.
Although all his associates were frohl
among tho class over whose heads burst
the bloody storm Of the revolution OF
50 Jones's sympathics never Wavered.
Ills love Of freedom was innate, his ndvo-
cacy OF the rights Of men never rat
tered. When the National Assembly OF
France was notified Of the death or
Jones It paid Immediate and appropriate
respect To his memory by adopting "
suitable resolution. ana appointing q
committee Of twelve members to attend
the funeral It Is stated that before the
resolution was adopted BY u rising vote,
! a member said: ~ trust the Feeling OF
| personal bereavement universal In this
! body may be granted brief expression.
| What Paul Jones has done for the rights
| Of mc,, need not be told to Frenchmen.
| What more he stood pledged, almost
| with his last breath to do, IL spared, IS
known to many T'renchmcn. Bertrand
Bnrcrc. then at the height Of his fame
MS an orator delivered from the port'co
OF tho Palace OF Justice, an impnssloned
GRAFTON on the achievements Of Jones'
who was his personal friend
Lay in Unknown Grave.
The exact place OF the burial Of Paul
! Jones was for n long while unknown,
Americans did not go to Paris as ire
| quently Mt the time of his death ana
| in the years Immediately thereafter as,
| they do now and France was too busy.
| while Napoleon was on the stage. TO
keep d good watch over the resting place
| OF the great sailor. When France settled
| down years after the death Of Jones,
| and American travellers begun to inquire
concerning the location Of Paul Jones's
| grave, It was found that nobody knew
! It. For many years the fact was stated
| In histories OF America that the site OF
! the grave OF the founder Of the American
! navy was unknown In 1890 several
| learned societies of Paris commenced a
| scIentific search for the grave. The
merit OF locating II IS mainly due TO a
| M. Ricaudy, who ran across the cores
| pondence or the gntekecper OF the Gene
| terry for foreign professionals. This cor
| respondence shows that Jones was buried
| In the cemetery Of Saint Louis, located
| in the squalid northeastern section OF
| modern Paris at the corner OF Rue
Grange auxbelles and Rue des Ecluses
Saint Martin. The cemetery was closed
| in 1893, the year after the nterment OF
Jones.
Work Of General Porter.
General Horace Porter; American Min
lister to France, spent six years, at ms
own expense, in searching for the body
OF Jones, ana while others may deserve
the credit OF locating the grave, to Cen
eral Porter Is due that OF establishing
the identity OF tho remains. General
Porter found In the BibliotheQue Ma
tionalca transcript Of the burial certif-
cate, stating that Jones was buried IN
the cemetery for foreign professionals.
There was also found a letter from
Colonel Samuel Blackden, an Americana
in Paris at the time Of the death of
Jones, written to Mrs. Jenny Taylor,
Jones's elder sister. informing her that
.'his body was put into a leaden coffin,
that in case the United States. which he
had so essentially served, and with SO
much honor, should claim his remains,
they might be more easily removed
| There was also found In the French
| national archives of 1892. a Ettersstating
| that IN. simonneau has furnished the
cost Of the interment OF Admiral Paul
| Jones, OF which tho bill amounts to four
hundred and sixty-two francs.
After having located the general site
| Of the burial place Of Jones, General.
Porter began careful examination of
what. had been the old cemetery. Five
shafts were sunk, galleries run from
them In all directions, and the inter-
vening spaces probed with long iron.
rods Only leaden collins were considered.
ssh. 4I>i. otoI fn,Ir, THE
first second and fourth had inscriptions
on them which showed they did not con-
tain the body sought. The fifth was
opened and disclosed the remains of a
man over six feet; In height. Jones was
only five feet seven inches tall. On the
31st Of March, 1906. he body OF Jones
was found.
The Body Well Preserved.
The lend coffin was OF much superior
workmanship to that of the other four.
which is consistent with the statement
that NJ. Smonneau had paid 462 francs
for the funeral expenses, as hospital
patient could be buried In that time for
81 francs The body had been packed
in hay and straw, and as the coffin had
been filled with alcohol, the body was
in an excellent state OF preservation.
THO abundant description that has come
down to the present generation of the
|
personal appearance OF Jones, made
Identification Of the remains so plain
and positive as to leave no room for
doubt, W
The striking resemblance OF the fea-
lures to the medallion, executed under
the personal supervision OF Jones IN
Paris in 1857, was apparent, The measure
ments OF tho cadaver agreed to within
seven hundred thousandths Of an inch
with those OF the bust executed by
IIoudon, a contemporary and adnlirer,
The length OF the body, tho color or
the hair peculiar formation of the car.
and the condition OF the teeth, cores
pended exactly with the personal de-
scrption OF Jones furnished by contem-
poraries
The cap in which the hair was done
| IN was marked with a ~
Finally. nm autopsy. conducted by two
! of tho most eminent physicians OF
France. showed that the body was that
| of man who had grave pulmonary
| trolple, and dropsy of the lower en-