Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1920 — PROMINENT CITIZEN CALLED [ARTICLE]

PROMINENT CITIZEN CALLED

W. R. BROWN. RESPECTED CITIZEN, PASSED AWAY THURSDAY EVENING. William R. Brown, for the past fifteen years a prominent and respected citizen of this city, passed away at his home on Milroy avenue at nine-thirty-five o’clock Thursday evening, death following an illness of almost eighteen months, during which time he suffered from time to time with attacks of heart trouble. In August of this year Mr. Brown was taken to the hospital where he remained for ten days., During his confinement there he showed vast improvement and it was thought he was on the way to complete recovery. However, a few weeks ago he again suffered another heart attack and his decline since that time was rapid. Mr. Brown was born in Ohio in the year 1845, and was therefore 75 years of age at the time his death occurred. Later he moved to Tuscola, Ill., where he resided for a number of years and where his marriage occurred in the year 1868. From Tuscola he and Ins family moved to a farm near Huntington where they resTded for ten years, and. in 1905 he and Mrs. Brown came to this city where they have 81 The deceased was a veteran of the Civil war and served throughout the rebellion as a member of an Illinois regiment. In the death of Mr. Brown the city suffers the in loss of a splendid in wWch he The deceased is survived oy jus wife, three Children, Everett and Clinton, of Huntington, and Mrs. Charles Marmon, grandchildren one -half-brother and so survive thd deceased. r*ie VgHKUwVHUAVII URw Ar . <**■ _ rAmetarv