Friends of Hastings Cemetery

Sadly Captain Jones’ honourable career came to a less than glorious end on the 3rd of June 1868 when he was found dead in his lodging house in Stonefield Rd, where he had been living for five years in reduced circumstances.

At the inquest it was revealed that he had been brought home on the Monday night having been discovered collapsed on wasteland in ‘an (sic) helpless state of intoxication’ and was found dead in his room on Wednesday.  His landlord said that such bouts of intoxication were not uncommon.  The cause of death was given as ‘exhaustion, accelerated by excessive drinking.’

(Hastings News 5th June 1868 page 2)

The inquest did not reveal any reason for his decline in circumstances.

His grave can be found in the front row of AO.

Jones, Richard Nelson continued