Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1914 — Harley Brown’s Body Shipped to Ladoga. [ARTICLE]

Harley Brown’s Body Shipped to Ladoga.

Ephriam T. Brown came up from Ladoga Tuesday afternoon to look after the body of his nephew, the young man who was picked up Saturday morning in a semi-conscious condition along the Monon tracks near Pleasant Ridge. Young Brown, who had served for awhile as a U. S. Marine, is reported to have been quite a wild young man, given to drinking, wandering and bumming about the country. T. W. Grant, who secured some cash by circulating a paper to give the body a decent burial, gave this money to E. T. Brown, who is decrepit and was financially unable to bury the young man, and was aided also by money raised at Ladoga. Had young Brown been given an honorable discharge, under the state law, his burial expenses would have been paid by the county where he belonged.