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==Death==
In June 1792, Jones was appointed U.S. [[Consul (representative)|Consul]] to treat with the [[Dey]] of [[Algiers]] for the release of American captives. Before Jones was able to fulfill his appointment, he was found dead lying face-down on his bed in his third-floor Paris apartment, No. 19 Rue de Tournon, on July 18, 1792. He was 45 years old. The cause of death was [[interstitial nephritis]].<ref>[http://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/site_details.php?SiteID=238 John Paul Jones House] at uswarmemorials.org</ref> A small procession of servants, friends and loyal family walked his body {{convert|4|mi|km|spell=in}} for burial. He was buried in Paris at the Saint Louis Cemetery, which belonged to the French royal family. In their obituaries, the American press had partially forgotten his achievements and some described him as a French war hero.<ref name="hornick"/>{{rp|47}}
Jones's grave was either unmarked, or the marker was stolen at an unknown point.<ref name="hornick"/>{{rp|106}} By the time Americans began searching for his coffin in 1899, the record of his burial plot had also been lost, burned by the [[Paris Commune]] during the ''[[semaine sanglante]]''.<ref name="hornick"/>{{rp|96}} Meanwhile, his personal papers had been transferred between several people and finally were displayed in the shop window of a New York bakery, where in 1824 a customer noticed them and purchased them. A New York newspaper described the papers as documents belonging to "Franklin, Hancock, La Fayette and John Adams," failing to mention Jones himself.<ref name="hornick"/>{{rp|67}}
===Exhumation and reburial===
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[[File:US Navy 050527-N-6077T-007 Father of the U.S. Navy, John Paul Jones, is entombed at the U.S. Naval Academy and is guarded by Midshipman 24-hours a day, three hundred sixty five days a year.jpg|thumb|Jones's marble and bronze [[sarcophagus]] at the [[United States Naval Academy|U.S. Naval Academy]] in [[Annapolis, Maryland]]]]
In 1905, Jones' remains were identified by U.S. Ambassador to France General [[Horace Porter]], who had searched for six years to track down the body using a poor 1851 copy of the missing burial record. After Jones's death, Frenchman Pierrot Francois Simmoneau had donated over 460 francs to mummify the body. It had been preserved in alcohol and interred in a lead coffin "in the event that should the United States decide to claim his remains, they might more easily be identified." Porter knew what to look for in his search. With the aid of an old map of Paris, Porter's team, which included anthropologist Louis Capitan, identified the site of the former St. Louis Cemetery for Alien Protestants. Sounding probes were used to search for lead coffins, and five coffins were ultimately exhumed. The third, unearthed on April 7, 1905, was immediately recognized as Jones by the excavators.<ref name="hornick"/>{{rp|105}} A post-mortem examination by Doctors Capitan and Georges Papillault confirmed their impression, finding several points by which the corpse could be identified as Jones. The autopsy confirmed the original listing of cause of death. The face was later compared to a bust by [[Jean-Antoine Houdon]].<ref name="hornick"/>{{rp|114}}
Jones's body was brought to the United States aboard the {{USS|Brooklyn|CA-3}}, escorted by three other cruisers, one being the {{USS|Tacoma|CL-20}}. On approaching the American coastline, seven U.S. Navy battleships joined the procession escorting Jones's body back to America. On April 24, 1906, Jones's coffin was installed in Bancroft Hall at the [[United States Naval Academy#Halls and principal buildings|U.S. Naval Academy]], [[Annapolis, Maryland]], following a ceremony in Dahlgren Hall, presided by President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] who gave a speech paying tribute to Jones and holding him up as an example to the officers of the Navy.<ref>Roosevelt, Theodore [https://web.archive.org/web/20091201105655/http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trjpjburial.html Dedication speech, Annapolis] (24 April 1906)</ref> On January 26, 1913, the captain's remains were finally re-interred in a bronze and marble [[sarcophagus]] designed by [[Sylvain Salières]] at the [[Naval Academy Chapel]] in Annapolis.<ref>[http://www.usna.com/Parents/SPPA/Library_Dir/USNA-Traditions.htm USNA Traditions] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120192445/http://usna.com/Parents/SPPA/Library_Dir/USNA-Traditions.htm|date=2008-11-20}} U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.navalhistory.org/2012/01/26/the-final-resting-place-of-john-paul-jones|title=The Final Resting Place of John Paul Jones|date=January 26, 2012}}</ref>
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* [[Johnny Horton]] wrote a sea chanty about John Paul Jones.
* The Longest Johns also made a song referring to him from the British perspective titled "John Paul Jones Is A Pirate".
* John Paul Jones is referenced in
==See also==
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