Abner Brown died at Rock Hill, Sullivan county, Oct. 1, of pneumonia, after two weeks' illness, at the age of 72 years, six months and 17 days.
The deceased was born at Glen Wild, and had spent most of his life at Rock Hill. He was a veteran of the Civil War, and a member of the Ratcliff Post, G. A. R., of Monticello.
Besides his wife, the deceased is survived by one son, James, of this city; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Plumstead, of Newburgh; a sister, Mrs. Roxie Merritt, of Summitville, and one brother, [George] Riley Brown, of Bath.
Funeral services will be held at the Rock Hill Church, Sunday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. Interment in the family plot in the cemetery at Rock Hill, N. Y.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Times, Saturday, October 2, 1915
He was the son of Hiram and Mary Brown.
His first wife's name was Caroline. In addition to James and Mary, he had a son, Abraham, who died in 1908.
His surviving wife's name was Sarah. They were married about 1894.
Another sister, Amanda Brown Hubbard, died in 1908.
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Several years before his death, the Middletown Daily Times-Press ran a profile of Mr. Brown:
Rock Hill, Feb. 14, (Special)-Abner Brown, one of the defenders of the Union in that colossal struggle of nearly fifty years ago, is spending his hale, advanced years on the margin of peaceful Fowlwood Lake. As he stands in his doorway, he can see the waters gently leaving its banks, and hear the dreamy, reposeful harmony of its rippling surface. No doubt, amid these calm solitudes, the tide of time often rolls back, and brings to his recollection, more stirring scenes, when the clarion notes of the bugle assailed his ears, and the measured tread of mighty armies, and all the horrid din of battle. The Fifty-sixth New York, which in the course of the war, was many times depleted, and again recruited to its limit, in the fullness of time, claimed Abner Brown as a member. His enlistment took place at Goshen. He was a lad of nineteen then. His father had died previous to this time. The pathetic "good-byes" which had to be said; the tear-stained face of his mother, and her fondly clinging arms, when the crucial moment of a soldier's farewell came, are things of imperishable memory to Abner, as they would be to any brave soldier. The activities of the regiment to which he belonged, were principally confined to Georgia and South Carolina. He fought in the battle of Honey Hill, an affair which lasted for the greater part of two days. In many other conflicts he took valiant part. The worst wound which he received was a sword cut on the scalp, the scar of which he still carries, an eloquent testimonial of dangers encountered in the service of his country. He likes to call to memory and to relate, how, one day, he was privileged to see General Sherman, with his staff and army pass by in that immortal March to the Sea. As, after a storm, one is better able to appreciate the beauty of a smiling, sunlit landscape, so Abner Brown when he thinks of those olden days of tumult and carnage should be, and no doubt is, thankful for the peaceful, pastoral conditions which envelop him in his riper years.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Times-Press, Thursday, February 15, 1912
The deceased was born at Glen Wild, and had spent most of his life at Rock Hill. He was a veteran of the Civil War, and a member of the Ratcliff Post, G. A. R., of Monticello.
Besides his wife, the deceased is survived by one son, James, of this city; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Plumstead, of Newburgh; a sister, Mrs. Roxie Merritt, of Summitville, and one brother, [George] Riley Brown, of Bath.
Funeral services will be held at the Rock Hill Church, Sunday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. Interment in the family plot in the cemetery at Rock Hill, N. Y.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Times, Saturday, October 2, 1915
He was the son of Hiram and Mary Brown.
His first wife's name was Caroline. In addition to James and Mary, he had a son, Abraham, who died in 1908.
His surviving wife's name was Sarah. They were married about 1894.
Another sister, Amanda Brown Hubbard, died in 1908.
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Several years before his death, the Middletown Daily Times-Press ran a profile of Mr. Brown:
Rock Hill, Feb. 14, (Special)-Abner Brown, one of the defenders of the Union in that colossal struggle of nearly fifty years ago, is spending his hale, advanced years on the margin of peaceful Fowlwood Lake. As he stands in his doorway, he can see the waters gently leaving its banks, and hear the dreamy, reposeful harmony of its rippling surface. No doubt, amid these calm solitudes, the tide of time often rolls back, and brings to his recollection, more stirring scenes, when the clarion notes of the bugle assailed his ears, and the measured tread of mighty armies, and all the horrid din of battle. The Fifty-sixth New York, which in the course of the war, was many times depleted, and again recruited to its limit, in the fullness of time, claimed Abner Brown as a member. His enlistment took place at Goshen. He was a lad of nineteen then. His father had died previous to this time. The pathetic "good-byes" which had to be said; the tear-stained face of his mother, and her fondly clinging arms, when the crucial moment of a soldier's farewell came, are things of imperishable memory to Abner, as they would be to any brave soldier. The activities of the regiment to which he belonged, were principally confined to Georgia and South Carolina. He fought in the battle of Honey Hill, an affair which lasted for the greater part of two days. In many other conflicts he took valiant part. The worst wound which he received was a sword cut on the scalp, the scar of which he still carries, an eloquent testimonial of dangers encountered in the service of his country. He likes to call to memory and to relate, how, one day, he was privileged to see General Sherman, with his staff and army pass by in that immortal March to the Sea. As, after a storm, one is better able to appreciate the beauty of a smiling, sunlit landscape, so Abner Brown when he thinks of those olden days of tumult and carnage should be, and no doubt is, thankful for the peaceful, pastoral conditions which envelop him in his riper years.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Times-Press, Thursday, February 15, 1912
Abner Brown died at Rock Hill, Sullivan county, Oct. 1, of pneumonia, after two weeks' illness, at the age of 72 years, six months and 17 days.
The deceased was born at Glen Wild, and had spent most of his life at Rock Hill. He was a veteran of the Civil War, and a member of the Ratcliff Post, G. A. R., of Monticello.
Besides his wife, the deceased is survived by one son, James, of this city; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Plumstead, of Newburgh; a sister, Mrs. Roxie Merritt, of Summitville, and one brother, [George] Riley Brown, of Bath.
Funeral services will be held at the Rock Hill Church, Sunday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. Interment in the family plot in the cemetery at Rock Hill, N. Y.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Times, Saturday, October 2, 1915
He was the son of Hiram and Mary Brown.
His first wife's name was Caroline. In addition to James and Mary, he had a son, Abraham, who died in 1908.
His surviving wife's name was Sarah. They were married about 1894.
Another sister, Amanda Brown Hubbard, died in 1908.
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Several years before his death, the Middletown Daily Times-Press ran a profile of Mr. Brown:
Rock Hill, Feb. 14, (Special)-Abner Brown, one of the defenders of the Union in that colossal struggle of nearly fifty years ago, is spending his hale, advanced years on the margin of peaceful Fowlwood Lake. As he stands in his doorway, he can see the waters gently leaving its banks, and hear the dreamy, reposeful harmony of its rippling surface. No doubt, amid these calm solitudes, the tide of time often rolls back, and brings to his recollection, more stirring scenes, when the clarion notes of the bugle assailed his ears, and the measured tread of mighty armies, and all the horrid din of battle. The Fifty-sixth New York, which in the course of the war, was many times depleted, and again recruited to its limit, in the fullness of time, claimed Abner Brown as a member. His enlistment took place at Goshen. He was a lad of nineteen then. His father had died previous to this time. The pathetic "good-byes" which had to be said; the tear-stained face of his mother, and her fondly clinging arms, when the crucial moment of a soldier's farewell came, are things of imperishable memory to Abner, as they would be to any brave soldier. The activities of the regiment to which he belonged, were principally confined to Georgia and South Carolina. He fought in the battle of Honey Hill, an affair which lasted for the greater part of two days. In many other conflicts he took valiant part. The worst wound which he received was a sword cut on the scalp, the scar of which he still carries, an eloquent testimonial of dangers encountered in the service of his country. He likes to call to memory and to relate, how, one day, he was privileged to see General Sherman, with his staff and army pass by in that immortal March to the Sea. As, after a storm, one is better able to appreciate the beauty of a smiling, sunlit landscape, so Abner Brown when he thinks of those olden days of tumult and carnage should be, and no doubt is, thankful for the peaceful, pastoral conditions which envelop him in his riper years.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Times-Press, Thursday, February 15, 1912
The deceased was born at Glen Wild, and had spent most of his life at Rock Hill. He was a veteran of the Civil War, and a member of the Ratcliff Post, G. A. R., of Monticello.
Besides his wife, the deceased is survived by one son, James, of this city; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Plumstead, of Newburgh; a sister, Mrs. Roxie Merritt, of Summitville, and one brother, [George] Riley Brown, of Bath.
Funeral services will be held at the Rock Hill Church, Sunday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. Interment in the family plot in the cemetery at Rock Hill, N. Y.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Times, Saturday, October 2, 1915
He was the son of Hiram and Mary Brown.
His first wife's name was Caroline. In addition to James and Mary, he had a son, Abraham, who died in 1908.
His surviving wife's name was Sarah. They were married about 1894.
Another sister, Amanda Brown Hubbard, died in 1908.
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Several years before his death, the Middletown Daily Times-Press ran a profile of Mr. Brown:
Rock Hill, Feb. 14, (Special)-Abner Brown, one of the defenders of the Union in that colossal struggle of nearly fifty years ago, is spending his hale, advanced years on the margin of peaceful Fowlwood Lake. As he stands in his doorway, he can see the waters gently leaving its banks, and hear the dreamy, reposeful harmony of its rippling surface. No doubt, amid these calm solitudes, the tide of time often rolls back, and brings to his recollection, more stirring scenes, when the clarion notes of the bugle assailed his ears, and the measured tread of mighty armies, and all the horrid din of battle. The Fifty-sixth New York, which in the course of the war, was many times depleted, and again recruited to its limit, in the fullness of time, claimed Abner Brown as a member. His enlistment took place at Goshen. He was a lad of nineteen then. His father had died previous to this time. The pathetic "good-byes" which had to be said; the tear-stained face of his mother, and her fondly clinging arms, when the crucial moment of a soldier's farewell came, are things of imperishable memory to Abner, as they would be to any brave soldier. The activities of the regiment to which he belonged, were principally confined to Georgia and South Carolina. He fought in the battle of Honey Hill, an affair which lasted for the greater part of two days. In many other conflicts he took valiant part. The worst wound which he received was a sword cut on the scalp, the scar of which he still carries, an eloquent testimonial of dangers encountered in the service of his country. He likes to call to memory and to relate, how, one day, he was privileged to see General Sherman, with his staff and army pass by in that immortal March to the Sea. As, after a storm, one is better able to appreciate the beauty of a smiling, sunlit landscape, so Abner Brown when he thinks of those olden days of tumult and carnage should be, and no doubt is, thankful for the peaceful, pastoral conditions which envelop him in his riper years.
--Middletown (NY) Daily Times-Press, Thursday, February 15, 1912
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