WILLIAMS COUNTY OHIO - OBIT: BROWN, Father Nicholas (d. 1895)
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The Lima News

DIED

Father Nicholas Brown, in St. Joseph township, Williams County, O., on March
25th, 1895. He was born Sept. 21, 1811 in Niederkerchen, in a portion of 
country then belonging to France but now to Germany and is known as Rhein 
Bavaria. He was dedicated to the Lord by holy baptism in infancy; when a 
young man he was religiously educated and by confirmation admitted to full 
membership to the German Reformed Church to which he faithfully adhered (?) 
until death. He was married to Miss Catherine Brown on March 30th, 1837, and 
with his then young wife emigrated to the United States of America in the 
same year and lived at ? about five years in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, then 
came to Williams county.

Their marriage was blessed with 9 children of which 5 died as well as his 
wife some years ago, and 4 children are yet living and ? grandchildren and ? 
greatgrandchildren to ? mourn the loss of their beloved father and 
grandfather. His age was 84 years, 6 months, 4 days. The funeral took place 
on Thursday ?, the 28th and was well attended. Rev. A. M. ? of ?, O. His text 
was 1 Thess 4 14 (?). Those who believe in Christ ? that will bring with him. 
The remains were deposited in a cemetery a little east of his residence. 
(poem at bottom illegible)