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- Thumbnail Sketch of Charles C. Jones, By Frank J. Mooney.
If he should be painting when Patchogue's fire siren goes off, 76-year-old Charles C. Jones puts his paint brush down and makes a beeline for the scene of the blaze...
Now in his forty-eighth year of active volunteer service, he will be among the guests of honor April 21, at the golden anniversary of the Union Hook and Ladder Company.
Is a member of the Union Hook and Ladder company and, as the third chief of the Patchogue Fire Department, was the first hook and ladder member to rise to that rank... served as chief from 1901 to 1911... Also filled practically every office in the Union company, including Captain.
Was born in Red Bank, N.J.... Came to Patchogue 49 years ago, when the late Admiral Summer's house (then the Vrooman place) at East Lake was being constructed... He was employed as a painter on the structure... That was in the year '88, the year of "the" blizzard.
He first heard of Patchogue from the late John Hawkins... It was mentioned during conversation they had while in Florida... Liked place so well when he got here, he decided to stay... Soon afterward joined the hook and ladder company, then in its second year.
Later served as director in the Southern New York Volunteer Firemen's Association... Is a member of South Side Lodge, F. and A. M., and Suwassett chapter, R.A.M... Also belongs to Atlanta Lodge, I.O.O.F., of Brooklyn, and to Patchogue Exempt Volunteer Firemen's association.
Lives at 88 Washington Avenue... There are few men among the younger volunteers who gave a greater desire to put out a blaze than Charles C. Jones who, with each new alarm scoffs at Father Time.
Has four children, Mrs. Walter G. Overton, G. Raymond Jones, Harrison Jones, and C. Perry Jones, the last also a former active member of the Patchogue Fire Department.
(Patchogue Advance, Friday, April 16, 1937, Page: 15; New York, New York, Death Index, 1862-1948)
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1861 - 1939 (78 years)