Dea. Erastus Brown

DAVIS, THE SETTLERS OF SALEM, WEST VIRGINIA, by Susie Davis Nicholson, Salem, West Virginia, 1992. p. 46

Deacon Erastus Brown died at about one o'clock on the 31st of July, 1892, of compression of the brain, after an illness of thirty-six days, and was mostly unconscious during the time.

He was the son of Fitch and Ruth Brown. being one of nine children, six boys and three girls of whom three boys and two girls survive him.

He was born in Scott, Cortland county, N. Y., Feb. 23, 1826. In 1834 he went with his parents into the State of Indiana; and in 1843 moved to Milton Wis., where he spent the rest of his life, with the exception of four years in Berlin, Wis. He was first married, in December, 1850, to Miss Maleta Davis, with whom he lived till March 18, 1885. They both professed faith in Christ about the same time, under the preaching of Eld. Varnum Hull, and were baptized by Eld. W. C. Whitford in 1856, uniting with the Milton Seventh-day Baptist Church. After the organization of the Milton Junction Church he changed his membership.

On June 16, 1886, he was married to Mrs. Charity Tallett, of West Hallock, Ill. He leaves a wife and four children and many friends to mourn his loss. He was a man of warm and generous impulses, stern integrity of character, earnest Christian zeal, a loving husband and father; a man to be greatly missed everywhere, in the church, in society, and above all in the family; circle in each sphere of influence of his godly life cannot cease to be felt. May God sanctify this affliction to us all.

His funeral was largely attended, conducted by the writer, assisted by Elders G. W. Hills, W. C. and O. U. Whitford. The sermon was based upon the 4th verse of the 39th Psalm: "Lord make me to know mine end. and the measure of my days what it is; that I may know how frail I am." N. Wardner.