Brown - William Hughes
WILLIAM HUGHES BROWN
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, December 28, 1906
William Hughes Brown, was born in Rush county, Indiana, November 8, 1830, and died December 6, 1906, at the age of 76 years, one month and eight days. When he was seven years of age he moved to Boone county with his father, and has lived in that and Montgomery county the remainder of his life, except a short time he spent in Illinois and Rush county. He was married to Nancy Jane Routh May 8, 1853, and to this union were born nine children, five boys and four girls. One son, Charles Kimble, preceded him to the better land, June 14, 1888, when only seventeen years of age, and his wife, December 29, 1873. He was married to Priscilla A. Hays Canine, April 13, 1877, and to this union were born six children, five girls and one boy. One daughter, Stella, died November 23, 1906. All the children reside in Montgomery county with the exception of three, Eliza E. Reed, Lizton, Ind., Esta A. Linn, Joliet, Ill., and Bertha A. McCaw, Muncie, Ind. He was a hard working man, a good financier and a kind and obliging neighbor. He started in life a poor boy with no money only as he made it himself, but by hard work he became one of the prosperous farmers of our country. He united with the Christian church at Ladoga in 1854 then moved to Fountain and from there to New Ross when the church here was first erected, and has been a faithful and consistent member till his death He contracted a case of typhoid fever several weeks ago, which caused his death. He leaves a wife, two sisters, one brother, five sons, nine daughters, forty-two grandchildren and twenty-five great-grandchildren, besides a host of other relatives and friends to mourn their loss. The funeral services were conducted here at the Christian church Monday afternoon by Rev. Headrick, and the remains were laid to their last resting place in the cemetery at Mace.- thanks to Kim H