Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Brown, Hiram September 11, 1921
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Monday, September 12, 1921
Hiram Brown, 82, one of the oldest residents of North Plains township, died at 
the farm residence at 2 o’clock Sunday morning, where he has lived ever since 
his birth.  He suffered an attack of apoplexy two years ago and never 
recovered.  Death was due in part to this cause. 

Having lived in North Plains all his life, Mr. Brown was one of the foremost 
boosters of anything that was for the community’s good.  He was foremost in 
efforts to build the North Plains Union church and was one of the first to 
advocate good schools for that township.  Mr. Brown’s father was one of the 
first settlers in Ionia county.  He was the oldest pioneers of North Plains 
township.  The tree still stands near the present Brown residence under which 
Mr. Brown’s parents camped the first night after arriving at the place where 
they made their home.  Mr. Brown, himself, has never lost the right to vote in 
the same precinct.

Mr. Brown’s higher education was obtained at Olivet college and M.A.C.  He was 
a student in the latter institution when the war broke out.   Upon joining the 
Northern forces Mr. Brown was assigned to the navy as an attaché of the Lower 
Mississippi squadron.  His only son is William Mason Brown, with whom he has 
long made his home.

Funeral services for Mr. Brown will be held Tuesday at 2 o’clock at the North 
Plains Union church, Rev. C. R. Strobridge of Yale will officiate.  Burial 
will be under the auspices of Lyons lodge No. 37, F.&A.M. at North Plains 
cemetery.


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