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Claud Ashton Jones (1916)

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This Fire Creek (Fayette County) native, while serving as a Navy commander, remained at the helm of the U.S.S. Memphis despite scalding steam from exploding boilers during a hurricane off Santo Domingo City on 29 August 1916.

He was born 1885 and died in Charleston in 1948. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Claud Ashton Jones (1916)