Probably the Huron Herald, May 1910
ANOTHER OLD SETTLER GONE.
B. M. Brown, who has suffered poor health all winter passed away last Friday afternoon. He was taken sick late in the fall, but did not become dangerously ill till the first week in February, since which time he rapidly declined. On account of his advanced years little could be done to prolong life, and he suffered great pain the past few weeks of his life.
Mr. Brown was one of the most highly respected citizens of this section of the country, and was a man who always had a good word for everybody. He was neither a lodge man nor a church man, but was an ideal neighbor and friend and a patriot during his country’s peril. He reared a large and respectable family and endured the hardship of pioneer life, both in Indiana and on the Kansas prairies.
At his request no funeral sermon was preached but a short memorial service was held at the residence Sunday afternoon conducted by Rev. Mr. Benson of Everest, and the body was laid to rest in the Old Huron cemetery, witnessed by one of the largest crowds that has gathered there in many years.
Benjamin M. Brown was born in Preble county, Ohio, October 1, 1834, and died at Huron, Kansas, April 29, 1910, aged 75 years six months and 25 days.
At the age of nine years he moved to Franklin county, Indiana, then a new country, and settled on a farm. Here he grew to manhood, working in a sawmill and clearing land of heavy timber. He often related that he helped burn logs that were considered useless that in after years would have been sawed into thousands of feet of valuable lumber.
In 1857 he came to Kansas by water, going to Cincinnati on a flat boat, thence by steamer to St. Louis on the Ohio and Mississippi, then up the Missouri to Doniphan, Kansas, where he landed. He pre empted a claim and next year returned to Indiana.
On [//] he enlised in Company A, Seventh Indiana Regiment. The first battle in which he engaged was at Camp Pendleton, Maryland. He also fought at Petersburg and Elkwater, when he was transfered to the light artillery, known as Rigby’s Battery. He was in the battles of Allegheny Heights, McDowell’s Summits, Cross Keys, and the three days battle at Harper’s Ferry, where he was captured on September 4, 18962, and paroled. His regiment was reequipped at Indianapolis under Colonel Wilder and was at the seige of Knoxville, Carter’s Station, Hickman Heights, and others. He was mustered out of the service July 12, 1865.
He was married April 7, 1868, to Missouri E. Weston, and in 1871 moved to Illinois and the following year came to Kansas. They settled on the farm one mile and a half southwest of Huron in 1878, and lived there till three years ago, when they retired and moved to town.
He is survived by the widow and ten children, all of whom were at home during his illness. The surviving children are as follows: C. A. Brown of Everest, W. S. Brown of Long Beach, Cal.; Mrs. John Carey of Norborne, Mo.; Mrs. Lloyd Godfrey of Cleveland, Mo.; Mrs. Claud Riley of Everest; Mrs. A. P. Bunnell of Shannon, and Rolla, Frank and Sherman, at home.
Co. A 7th. Ind. Cav.