Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Brown, Joseph Carter 1915
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Lyons Herald, 20 May 1915

Joseph Carter Brown was born in Houghton Reges, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, 
England, on Oct. 12, 1851, and died at his home in Ionia township, Michigan, 
May 9, 1915.

At the age of nine, along with his mother and brother, he left his merry 
England home to join his father in America.  They settled in Monroe county, 
near the village of Avon, New York.  He attended the old district school of 
Number Six, which later gave its name to the Number Six wheat so widely known 
to Central Michigan people.  However his educational career was cut short when 
he was only fourteen by the sudden death of his father.  This threw the 
responsibility upon him of providing for his mother and younger brother.  Yet 
in spite of this he managed to secure a common education.

In 1871 he was married to Annie C. Heustis.  For eleven years he worked the 
Barber farm at Number Six, known at the “Stone House Farm.”  Then getting the 
western fever, he moved his family to Ionia, Michigan.  This was in the early 
spring of 1883.  That same summer he bought a farm in Ionia township near the 
Orange north line, and here he spent the remainder of his life.

His was a life filled with hard work and worry.  Among the many crises through 
which he passed were: financial loss, the destruction of his home by fire, and 
the sickness and death of five children.  He was a man of strong, positive 
personality, of firm convictions and plain speech, of high ideals and integrity 
of character.  Unconsciously he once expressed his whole philosophy of life in 
a single sentence, when in commenting upon his stormy career, he said: “I have 
had a hard row to hoe, but thank God I have kept my credit good.”

When he was a boy he was baptized in the English church, and for that church he 
ever expressed his preference.  During his last sickness he several times 
asserted that he would not recover, but always declared that he was not afraid 
to die.  He had not been well in over a year, but it was only five days before 
his death that he was compelled to keep his bed.  The cause of death was 
pernicious anaemia.

He is survived by a wife; a brother, Charles of Honeyoye Falls, New York; and 
by five children: Mrs. Bert Setchfield, of Flat Creek, Alberta, Canada; Mrs. 
A.G. Krieble, of Lyons, Michigan; Charles F., of Albany, Missouri; Edward H., 
of Lyons; and James A., of Albion.

The funeral was held from his late home on Wednesday afternoon, May 12, with 
A.E. Bradt of Lyons in charge.  Rev. W.W. Hurd pastor of the Lyons M.E. church, 
gave the funeral address and had charge of the ceremony.  The singing was 
tenderly rendered by Mrs. Bradt and Mrs. Cook of Lyons.  The remains were laid 
in their last resting place in a cement vault in Tuttle cemetery.


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