Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1916 — RELATIVES FIND HIS GRAVE [ARTICLE]

RELATIVES FIND HIS GRAVE

After Search of Seventy-Eight Years Marker Is Discovered on Resting Place of Tennesseean. Danville, Ill.—After a search of 78 years by near relatives, tlia* body of Elijah Brown, who left Nashville, Tenn., in 1838 for Illinois, was found recently near Allerton, 111. Brown was a well-known Baptist preacher in Tennessee at that time and started overland to northern Illinois with his wife and seven children, but died e_n route and his body was burled by the Wayside. A mnrker was made for the grave, but the place was forgotten. The marble slab was broken, but the name and date of death In 1838 made identification possible.