DeKalb County Indiana Obituary
Joel Brand
Contributed by Judy Richter
Thursday,
August 29,
1878
Joel Brand, of Smithfield,
died at his residence in the south-west part of that township, at an
early hour
on Tuesday morning, the 27th instant. Mr.
Brand had been sick only a short time,
his disease being pneumonia, or lung fever.
He leaves a wife and family, the children all being grown up to
manhood
and womanhood.