Obituary of Alonzo Brown, Blissfield, Lenawee County, Michigan

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ALONZO BROWN

From Blissfield Advance Friday December 21, 1888, as 
published in the Lenawee County Family Researchers 
newsletter

***sorry, I don't have issue readily available.

ALONZO BROWN

Alonzo Brown was born in Leeds County, Ontario, June 11, 
1820, and departed this life December 5, 1888, and 
therefore was aged 68 years, 5 months, and 25 days.  He 
leaves a widow, ten children, and twenty grandchildren to 
mourn his loss.  He was the eldest of a family of seven 
children, three girls and four boys, two brothers and two 
sisters still surviving him in Canada, near his birthplace. 
 Alonzo, being  of a naturally roving disposition, 
emigrated to the State of Michigan at the age of 28 years. 
 Limited in means, he had to put up with the hardships of 
pioneer life.  Shortly after he came to Ogden, he purchased 
and cleared the old homestead on section 11, where he 
resided until about 6 years ago, when his health failed and 
he moved to the village of Blissfield, and there he lived 
until his death.

He was a strong temperance advocate and one of the first to 
organize a temperance sentiment in this vicinity. 
 Regardless of the customs of his boyhood days he was never 
known to take a drink of intoxicants at the bar during his 
life.   He embraced religion at the old home, Ontario, at 
the early age of 18 years took up family worship at his 
father's home circle, and has kept up family worship until 
a wise Father saw fit to call him home.   As regards 
truthfulness and veracity no one was more precise than he. 
 If there was anything disgusting to him it was a person 
that did not regard his word.  As a conceller he was wise, 
religiously as well as financially.  And the best of all, 
he left a record behind that is worthy of example.



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