The great sea-fighter was buried, as Napoleon was, in uniform.
In the Life of him—“Great Commanders’ Series”—by Cyrus Townsend Brady, the statement is made that Paul Jones was buried in the American uniform, and that a sword and other articles were placed in the coffin.
The body which General Porter has found was not clad in uniform.
There was no sword, or other article, found in the coffin.
Commodore Jones died of dropsy, which had swollen his body to such an extent that he could not button his waistcoat.
Yet the French experts declare that all the measurements tally exactly with those of the living Jones.
Should They Do So?
Awful changes take place after death, and they are greater with some than with others.
Should the measurements of a corpse which had been entombed more than a hundred years correspond exactly with those of the same body when alive?
Most biographers put the height of Admiral Jones at “about five feet and eight inches.”