OBIT: John R. BROWN, 1940, Salisbury, Somerset County, PA

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JOHN R. BROWN

  John R. Brown, a native of West Virginia, but for many years a resident of 
Salisbury, Pa., died in the Hazel McGilvery Hospital, Meyersdale, Pa., Friday, 
March 29, 1940, at the age of 83 years, 6 months and 12 days.  He was badly 
afflicted by a chronic catarrhal trouble for some years, but being a large, 
strong man with an unusual tenacity of life, he might have lived considerably 
longer had it not been that he fell down a flight of 14 steps a few days prior 
to his death.
  County Coroner F. E. Sass of Boswell, Pa. pronounced Mr. Brown's death as 
accidental, and gave it as his opinion that the shock of the fall was the 
immediate cause of the aged man's death.  He was a son of Jacob and Elizabeth 
Romesburg Brown, both deceased.  He was also preceded in death by his wife, who 
before her marriage was Miss Clara Glotfelty, born and reared near Salisbury, 
and their eldest daughter, Mrs. Della B. Caldwell.
  He is survived by one daughter, Grace, the wife of Captain Ralph Smith of New 
York City, who for more than a score of years has sailed the seas, both as a 
captain and as pilot of freighting vessels.  The captain is also a former 
resident of Salisbury.
  Some time after the death of Mr. Brown's wife and eldest daughter, he disposed 
of his home and most of his personal effects, and knowing how hard it is for 
persons who have lived to old age in rural communities to adjust themselves to 
city environments, Mr. Brown expressed a desire to live the remainder of his 
life where he could often see many of his old friends.  Mrs. Smith, therefore, 
got him a good rooming place in Grantsville, Md., where old friends from 
Salisbury and other nearby communities in both Pennsylvania and Maryland often 
saw him, and where he was apparently well contented, and often visited by 
friends and relatives.
  Funeral services were held at 4:00 p.m., Sunday, at St. John's Evangelical and 
Reformed Church, in Salisbury, of which Mr. Brown was a faithful member.  The 
services were conducted by his pastor, Rev. A. M. Wright.  The burial 
arrangements were in charge of W. C. Price, mortician, of Meyersdale, with 
interment in the Salisbury I.O.O.F. Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, April 4, 1940