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- Datus Fitch BROWN, oldest son of Deacon Erastus and
Maleta DAVIS BROWN,
- was born November 28, 1858, on a farm four miles east of
Milton, and died at his home in Denver, Colo., December 21, 1913.
His boyhood days were spent on the farm and he was educated
in Milton graduating from Milton college in 1882. Soon after
his graduation he went to Dakota where he entered business in
Redfield. He was married at Wonewoc, Wis., February 3, 1882,
to Ellen E. ZUILL of Rock Prairie, who has been a loving
and devoted wife, tenderly caring for him up to the hour of his
death. To them were born three children, Leta Mary who died
in infancy, Edith Mary and Cleon Datus, who with the wife and
two sisters, Eva S. BROWN and Mrs. Bertha B. OSBORN,
of Long Beach, Cal., mourn his loss.
- He held positions of trust in St. Paul, Cleveland and Albany
but in October 1909, the
- family removed to Denver where, in partnership with his son,
he entered the wholesale hardware business. Several weeks before
his death he was taken seriously ill with blood pressure and
hardening of the arteries, and after long weeks of patient suffering
the spirit took its flight to the eternal home.
- From infancy he was blessed with a cheerful, kindly, winsome,
sunny disposition.
- None knew him but to love him. In the home he was everything
that a faithful husband and devoted father could be. To his
sisters and younger brother, who preceded him to the better land
but two years before, he was both father and brother and the
esteem in which he was held by all his friends and associates
was testified by the many beautiful floral tributes sent both
before and after his death. Also the many letters and telegrams
sent to the bereaved ones which have been such a comfort to them.
- He was baptized by Eld. Darwin MAXSON when but eleven
years of age and united
- with the Milton S.D.B. church. In his last days he talked
of his heavenly home and said he was ready to go if it was the
Father's will. Short but beautiful services were held at the
home, conducted by the Rev. Coyle of the Presbyterian church
and the remains were laid to rest in Fairmount cemetery near
Denver. [Thursday edition, p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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