Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1917 — WAS NATIVE OF JASPER COUNTY [ARTICLE]

WAS NATIVE OF JASPER COUNTY

White Coilnty Soldier Buried Here in Crockett Cemetery. Charles O. Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Brown of near Guernsey, White county, mention of -whose death at Hattiesburg, Mississippi, was made in last Wednesday’s Democrat, was a native of Jasper county and was buried in the Crockett cemetery southeast of Rensselaer, the funeral being held at Monon on Tuesday forenoon o*f last week. September last he went to Lafayette and was enrolled as a member of Co. B, 151st, going to Camp Shelby for training, where his early demise occurred. Deceased was born in Jasper county May 16, IS9I, and died at Camp Shelby, *• Hattiesburg, Mississippi, December 13, 1917, being 26 years, six months and three days of age. The immediate cause of his reath was measles followed by pneumonia.