Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1920 — COMRADE WM. R. BROWN AT REST [ARTICLE]

COMRADE WM. R. BROWN AT REST

FUNERAL OF WORTHY CITIZEN HELD IN THIS CITY SUNDAY AFTERNOON. * i ——— The funeral of the late William R. Brown, who died at his home on Milroy avenue at 9:35 Thursday evening, October 21, was held at the First Christian church in this city Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. The services were. conducted by the pastor, the Rev. William T. Barbre, who had been recalled from St. Louis, where he was attending the International convention of the Christian church. The sermon was full of pathos as Mr. Brown was a great personal friend of the pastor and a most loyal member of his church. The Rev. Barbre spoke of the cheerful disposition and the intense interest of Mr. Brown in the welfare of the ! church, and of his recent most liberal gift to that organization. • A quartette composed of Dr. W. L. Myer, Dr. H. L. Brown, C. E. Baumgartner and Jesse D. Allman, with Linnie Bird Rains at the pipe organ, gave the following selections: “Remember Mie, 0 Mighty One” and “■Love, Rest and Home.” Dr. Myer sang as a solo, “Face To Face.” The following veterans of the Civil war attended the funeral of their beloved .comrade: David H. Yeoman, Henry Wood, Harvey Wood, Allen Catt, Richard Grow, W. A. Green, John Kresler, I. N. Hemphill, Jesse C. Gwin, Marshall Rhoades, Henry Amsler, N. 8. Bates, Philip Blue, W. S. Day, William Hoover, J. F. Mitchell, Whitesell Lewis, Shelby Grant, W. D. Saylor, C. B. Steward, Rev. W. H. Saylor, John Nichols and J. L. Haginft The relatives present besides those mentioned in the obituary were: Granddaughter, Ruth; McKinzie ; a brother of Mr. Brown, Bright Brown, of Cannargo, IB.; a sister, Mra. Top Burgett and husband and son, Burley Burgett, of Garthage, Hl.; a brother of Mrs. Brown, W. E. Murphy and wife, of Bloomington, DI., and her sister, Margaret Redden, daughter, Mrs. Thomas Reed and son, Bert Redden, of Oakland, 111. The following grandchildren, were not present: Thelma, Charlotte, Frances, Dale and Bill Brown. The following obituary written by the deceased was read at the funeral services: WILLIAM R. BROWN’ William R. Brown,, born Decent ber 4, 1845, in Douglas county. HMnois. He enlisted in Company E, 79th Dlinois volunteers in 1862 and was taken prisoner at Franklin, Tennessee, in 1864 and taken to Andersonville Prison where he remained until the cloes of the war, 1865. Ha was married to Nancy E. Murphy, January 18th, 1869, and to this union three children were viz., Clinton and Everett of Huntington, Ind., and Mrs. Cecile Hannon, of was a member of the First Christion Church, a member of Post No. B|4, G. A. R., Rensselaer, Ind. Interment was made in Weston I