CAPT. HUGH W. JONES, 918 VILLA STREET, RACINE, WISCONSIN.

About 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon, at his home, 918 Villa Street, after a long and painful sickness, Capt. Hugh W. Jones departed this life in his sixty-seventh year.

He was born September 24th, 1825 at Rhiw, in the County of Carnervon, North Wales. He was raised on a farm and lived with his widowed mother till he emigrated to America in the spring of 1841. His brother Capt. John Wallace Jones, now of North Main St. came to America the year before and was so pleased with thew country, that he resolved to make it his permanent home, and returned to Wales in the fall of the same year. The two sons with their mother, came to America the following spring.

The deceased and his mother settled at Remsen, Oneida County, New York, and Capt. John W Jones went further west, to follow hisavocation as sailor on the Great Lakes. Hugh was apprenticed as a currier and tanner, and followed the business at Remsen for many years. In the meantime he married a very estimaable young woman, by the name of Margaret Lewis, a native of Remsen, but whose ancestors came from Wales near the close of the last century.

In the year 1851 he paid a visit to his brother at Racine, and in 1852, he brought his family there and has lived there ever since.

In 1857 his first wife died.

Some years afterwards he married Laura Jones, a native of the same County in Wales and she died April 1890 after a lingering sickness. She was greatly beloved by all and her demise was a sad affliction to her family.

Captain left five children to lament a most considerate and loving father, William Wallace Jones of Ramsey Co. North Dakota, Elizabeth, wife of Louis Evans, Jane, wife of William W. Jones and John Wallace and Mary Jones, both residing at home.

After Captain Jones came west he went sailing with his brother. Eventually he became Captain of the schooner Ethen Allen and afterwards of the schooner Onward of which he was part owner. He was well known in every port on the chain of Lake from Chicago to Buffalo. He had given up sailing some six or seven years ago.

The farm in Wales where Hugh Jones was raised was called Coch y Moel, Rhiw.