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Died, at Greenleaf, Tuesday, December 14, 1915, Clayton Brown,
Sr., aged 93 years, of pneumonia.
Mr.
Brown is well known at this place and at Greenleaf and
throughout the Society of Friends to the extension of whose
work he has been devoted much of his life. He was born
in Ohio, lived at Paton, Iowa, and in Wisconsin, for many
years, at which places he assisted in establishing the Quaker
colonies, and was also instrumental in the establishment of
the Quaker settlement at Greenleaf. He was twice married
and is survived by his wife and three children, Mrs. W. F.
Went of Payton, Iowa; Mrs. J. Jester, Jr., and W. S. Brown, of
this place, a niece, Mrs. I. S. Binford, and many grand
children and great grand children. Mr. Brown has resided
at Greenleaf for the past eleven years, and his family have
occupied important places in Quaker denomination, and he is
able to trace his ancestry back to the time of Wm. Penn. |
