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CIVIL WAR VETERAN
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Leon G. Brown Victim of Heart
Trouble Following Attack
of Pneumonia

   Leon G. Brown, 84 years old, a vet-
eran of the Union army and for many years a well known resident of Huntington died at his home, 220 Bellevue road, at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Heart trouble following pneumonia was the cause of death. Mr. Brown had been ill since December. After an apparent recovery from a pneumonia attack he suffered a relapse from which he was unable to rally.
   Mr. Brown came to Huntington in 1884 from Jamestown, N.Y. During most of his life of almost half a century here he was connected with the lumber business, but in recent years had been in semi-retirement.
   He was a member of Western Star Lodge No. 11, A.F. & A.M., and of Huntington Commandery No. 9, Knights Templar. He was a member of the First Presbyterian church.
   He was a widower, his wife having died in 1913. One son, G. M. Brown,
of the Chesapeake & Ohio freight department, survives him.
   His body was removed to the Arthur Funeral Home and will subsequently be taken to Jamestown, N.Y. for burial.

-The Huntington Herald-Dispatch, Friday Morning, March 1, 1929


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