Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1920 — ANOTHER OLD SOLDIER CALLED [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER OLD SOLDIER CALLED

W. R. Brown Answers the Last Long Roll Call. W. R. Brown, who had been in a critical state of health at times for the past several months from heart trouble and for the last couple of weeks or more had been con* fined to his home altogether, passed away at the family residence on McCoy avenue at 9:30 o’clock Thursday night. Mr. Brown was born in Illinois on Feb. 4, 1846, and was therefore past 74 years of age at the time of his death. For the past 25 years he had been a resident of Jasper county, 15 years ago moving to Rensselaer, where he had since resided. He was a soldier of th£ civil war. Deceased is survived by his wife, two sons, Everett and Clint Brown, of Huntington, and one daughter, Mrs. C. C. Harmon, of Evansville, also one half-sister and one halfbrother, Mrs. Top Burgett and Dewight Brown, of Illinois. The funeral will be held at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Christian church and burial made to Weston cemetery. The G. A. R., of | which Mr. Brown was an honored member, will have charge of the burial ceremonies.