Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Brown, James M.  1898
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The Ionia Daily Standard, Thursday, January 5, 1899


One by one the old pioneer landmarks are passing away.  The genial, familiar 
face of Father Brown will no more be seen on our streets.  James M. Brown, 
familiarly known as Father Brown, one of the early settlers of Easton, Ionia 
county, where he has resided the most of the last fifty years, passed from 
labor to refreshment and entered into rest at the home of his daughter, Mrs. 
John Morton in this city, December 20, 1898, in the ninety-fourth year of his 
age.  Father Brown was born at Hackett’s Town, New Jersey, December 8th, 1805, 
and died at Ionia, December 20th, 1898.  Was married to Charlotte McCracken at 
Hackett’s Town in 1828, who died in Easton, July 5th, 1887, in the seventy-
fifth years of her age, and after nearly sixty years of happy married life.

To father and mother Brown were born ten children: 1st. Theodore, who now 
resides in Colorado; 2nd. Harriett L., widow of the late Capt. John Morton, who 
resides in Ionia, and at whose home father Brown died; 3rd. John, who now 
resides at Quincy, Illinois; 4th. Peter, who was killed in Ionia township a few 
years ago by lightning; 5th, James R., a prominent ranchman residing at Wagner, 
Indian Territory; 6th, Mary C., who resides at Detroit; 7th. Charles A., who 
died a few years since in Indiana; 8th. Anna Augusta, wife of Andrew Green of 
Ionia; 9th. Charlotte Josephine, now Mrs. Mills, of Chicago; 10th. Thomas O., 
now residing in Isabella county, Michigan.  All of whom were kind dutiful 
children and good citizens and contributed to making home happy, and of whom 
these loving parents were truly and justly proud.

In the days of Rev. Isaac Errett and the establishing of the Disciple church in 
Ionia, father and mother Brown experienced religion, and became members of the 
Disciple church, and lived and died consistent, true and faithful members of 
the same, and were ornaments to society.  Their remains now rest side by side 
in the old Ionia Cemetery.  Those who knew them best loved them most.


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