Death of Charles S. Brown.

"The death of this young man, the son of our fellow citizen, Mr. W.J. Brown, Sr., was a shock and sorrow to our whole community. He bore the name of CHARLES SCOTT, for Chancellor Scott, an honored citizen of Jackson in the early days. He died on Monday morning in the thirty-first year of his age, and in the midst of a career that promised great usefulness and honor. Born and reared in Jackson, he had many friends, warm and appreciative, who feel in his unexpected and untimely death a sore personal bereavement. He was gifted in no ordinary degree. His mind was quick even to brilliancy, which, united with an analytical exactness and discernment, gave him an intellectual equipment for the highest position. Never did a warmer, more generous heart beat in human breast. This attached to him friends with hooks of steel. Fascinating and courtly in manners, he had the bearing everywhere of the true gentleman. Liberal and unselfish, his hand was never withheld from any good cause to the full measure of his ability.
"In the line of his profession, pharmacy, he had accomplishments and ability, that commanded lucrative positions, and might have given him the largest success. He was a child of the Sunday School, and when a boy in his early teens he became a member of the Methodist church. In that relation, he was active and useful. In January last he was married to Miss Mattie Van Hook, accomplished young lady of this city, who, with a babe of only a few weeks, are left to mourn his early departure. There wedded life was strikingly beautiful, and the sympathies of our entire community go out to the heart widowed so young. He was buried from the Methodist church on Tuesday afternoon, the solemn ceremonies attended by a large concourse of sorrowing relations and friends."

~ The Clarion, Jackson, Mississippi, November 14, 1883.