MAURY COUNTY, TN - COURT - Death Notice and Obituary for  Joseph Brown
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Death Notice and Obituary of Colonel Joseph Brown
                 of Maury Co. and Giles Co., TN
                                
Nashville Republican Banner, Feb. 6, 1868:

We heard it reported yesterday that the veteran pioneer and Indian fighter 
Col. Joseph Brown of Giles County died during the morning at the advanced 
age of 96 years.

Pulaski Citizen, Pulaski, Tennessee, Feb. 8, 1868:

Died in this county Feb. 4, 1868, Col. Joseph Brown aged 95 years, 6 months 
and 2 days.  Col. Brown immigrated with his father's family  Col. James Brown 
a Revolutionary officer in the North Carolina line to Tennessee in 1788.  His 
father and brothers were massacred by the Indians in that year.  Together with 
his mother and several sisters and he [,they were] captured and held in captivity 
for a long time.  He died on the 58th anniversary of the Cumberland Presbyterian 
Church, of which he was one of the founders, and was a professed Christian 
for 80 years.  He held the first prayer meeting that was ever held in Maury County, 
to which he invited in person, every white inhabitant of the county.  It is impossible 
to portray in a brief notice the many noble traits that adorned the character of the 
deceased, or to give anything like a synopsis of the many daring adventures in 
the service of his country.