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From: Walter Farwell <>
Subject: Mrs. D.W. "Lot" Brown
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:06:49 -0700

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Surname: Frost, Brown, Ellis, Leighton
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THE SIDNEY ARGUS-HERALD, February 21, 1929.--Alice Vernelia Brown.--The
grim reaper called Death has come again into our midst and selected one
of the few remaining citizens who have lived in Sidney over fifty years.
Following an attack of pneumonia, which had its inception last Friday,
Mrs. D.W. Brown died at her home Monday evening about 10:30 o'clock at
the mature age of 81 years 6 months and 16 days. For nearly sixty years
she had been a part of Sidney

Alice Vernelia Frost was born at Rutland, Vermont, August 3, 1847. At the
age of 23 she came to Sidney with Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Lewis who bought
the old Cromwell house and for whom she worked for about a year. She was
united in marriage to D.W. Brown at Sidney on September 21, 1871, the marriage
ceremony being read by Jacob Moomaw in the home of J.J. Brown, an uncle
of the groom. To this union three children were born, all of whom, together
with their father, survive her. These are Mrs. Reese B. Ellis and Mrs.
W.S. Leighton, both of Council Bluffs, and Chandler A. Brown of Seattle,
Washington.

Mrs. Brown joined the Methodist church at an early age and was an active
and interested worker in the Sidney church for many years. Her home, however,
came first. She was a home-body, in her more mature years seldom leaving
its portals, but in that home her friends ever found a welcome such as
a princess might offer, and from its doors she dispensed a charity that
was lavish even beyond her means. Few of the older people in Sidney have
not cause to remember the skillful and unselfish ministrations of this
good women in an hour when the world seemed dark beyond hope.

Funeral services were conducted from the Methodist church yesterday afternoon
by Rev. G. S. Nichols, pastor, and interment was in the home cemetery.

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