R. H. BROWN, Obituary, 4 Nov 1924

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Tyler Daily Courier-Times, 4 Nov 1924

R. H. Brown Died 12:35 At Baylor Hospital in Dallas

Just as the Courier-Times goes to press, information reached the city 
of the death of Mr. R. H. Brown, at 12:35 today at Baylor Hospital at
Dallas.

The remains will be brought to Tyler for burial and funeral will be 
tomorrow afternoon, the exact of which had not been determined.

Mr. Brown was carried to Dallas several days ago for treatment, but
the best medical skill in that city was unavailing.  He was one of 
the best known as well as one of the oldest and most highly 
respected citizens of this section of the state.

Mrs. Brown and son, Richard and daughter, Mrs. Gaylord Warner of
Minneapolis were with Mr. Brown when the end came.  Mrs. Sledge 
came home last night to be with her husband who has been sick for
several days with a cold.

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Tyler Daily Courier-Times, 5 Nov 1924

Death Calls R. H. Brown, Well Know Citizen

With the passing of Mr. R. H. Brown, our community loses one of its
most valuable as well as one of its most popular citizens.

Mr. Brown died at 12:35 at Baylor Hospital in Dallas Tuesday 
afternoon after an illness of three weeks.  Mr. Brown was carried 
to Dallas a  few days ago to consult a specialist, but it was 
found that the end was near and his soul passed quietly to his 
Maker in the presence of members of his family and Dallas friends.

The remains were brought back to Tyler last night for interment and 
the funeral will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the First 
Baptist Church.  Interment will be at Oakwood Cemetery.

Mr. R. H. Brown came from a distinguised Virginia family, where he 
was born in 1846.  He was therefore just a few weeks over 78 years 
of age.  He spent his early life in Virginia and when the Civil War 
broke out, he was an early volunteer.  In answering the call of his 
beloved Southland, and followed the fortunes of General Lee though-
out all the dark and trying days of the Virginia campaign.  His 
record was a gallant one as a soldier.  At the close of the war he
came to Texas locating in Tyler in 1871, where he accepted a 
position as clerk in the store of J. H. Brown.  In a few years Mr.
Brown engaged in business for himself and conducted a sucessful
mercantile business here for over fifty years, retiring some eight
or ten years ago.  In a business way Mr. Brown has always been 
identified with progressive and enterprising movements that were
for the good of the community, and his entire business career was 
a successful one from every standpoint.

Mr. Brown was a deeply religious man.  He was a life-time Baptist 
and united with First Baptist church of Tyler in his early life.
He maintained an unbroken membership in that church until the day 
of his death.  He was a Sunday School teacher and member of the 
board of Deacons for a full half century and for a quarter of a 
century he served the board as chairman in a faithful and
efficient way.  All through these years he at all times delighted 
to do the bidding of his Master and no cause was too irksome or 
the tasks too heavy to call out his best services.  Mr. Brown was
one of the liberal contibutors to the Baptist church and to other 
religious causes.  In civic matters he was likewise a liberal
contributor and was always ready to foster any movement that was
for the general good of the community.

Mr. Brown was a high class Christian gentleman of the old South.
Not many of his type are left.  Courtly, kind, courteous, 
chivalrous and generous, our entire community suffers by his going.

Surviving Mr. Brown besides his widow are three children: two 
daughters and one son, Mrs. Albert Sledge of Tyler, and Mrs.
Gaylord Warner of Minneapolis, Minn., and Richard Brown, Jr., of 
Dallas, and one sister, Mrs. T. T. Cotnam of Little Rock, Ark.,
besides several grand children and one great grandchild.