DeLancey Floyd-Jones

   COL. FLOYD-JONES DEAD.
He Was a Gallant Soldier in the Mexi-
       can and Civil Wars.
 Col. DeLancey Floyd-Jones, a mem-
ber of the famous Long Island family of
that name, died Sunday at the Park
Avenue Hotel, Manhattan, of pneu-
monia, after an illness of ten days. He
was in his seventy-sixth year.
 Col. Floyd-Jones was born on Long
Island in 1826. He was graduated from
West Point in time to perform active
service in the Mexican War. He was
brevetted a Second Lieutenant of the
Seventh Infantry on July 1, 1846, and
as a Second Lieutenant in the Fourth
Infantry took part in the siege of Vera
Cruz, the battles of Cerro Gordo and
Molino del Rey and the capture of the
Mexican capital. For gallant and merit-
orious conduct at Molino del Rey he was
brevetted First Lieutenant.
 In 1854 he became Captain in the
Fourth and as such served in the Kla-
math Indian campaign in 1856. He
served throughout the Civil War and
was brevetted twice for gallant conduct,
the last brevet being that of Colonel,
conferred for his gallantry at Gettys-
burg. He also took part in the battles
of Gaines and Malvern Hills, Manassas,
Antietam, Sharpsburg and the Penin-
sula campaigns. After the war was
over he continued in the service until
1879, serving on the plains a great deal
of that time with the Nineteenth In-
fantry. For six years he was Colonel
of the Third Infantry.
 Col. Floyd-Jones was a member of the
Union, Metropolitan, Tuxedo, New
York, St. Nicholas, Aztec and South
Side Sportsmen's clubs, the Audobon
and St. Nicholas societies and of several
military organizations. His wife died
several years ago.
 His funeral was held in Trinity church
on Wednesday morning.