VA 1st SGT USMC
THE HENRY BULLETIN, Martinsville, Va., Tue., April 12, 1927, p. 4, col. 1 [edited].
With a Marine Corps escort of honor guarding the body, funeral services will be held this afternoon for J. Moss Brown, 33, who died Sunday afternoon following an operation at the League Island Naval Hospital near Philadelphia. Services will be conducted at 3:00 o'clock from the home of J. A. Brown, Church Street, brother of the deceased. American Legion post will be in charge of the funeral. After a service at the hospital, the body will arrive here this morning, accompanied by Mrs. A. M. Hodgson of Richmond, who reached her brother a few hours afer he died Sunday. Another sister, Mrs. P. S. Barrow of Bluefield, W. Va., arrived Monday.
Mr. Brown enlisted in the marine corps at the start of the war and was one of the escorts for President Wilson on his trip to Europe. He was present at the surrender of the German fleet at the close of the war.
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Ref. OAKWOOD CEMETERY LOT INDEX, Third Edn. 1990, Comp. by Martinsville Cemetery Assn., Inc., some burials in Sect. 1, Lot 28: James Moss Brown, died 10 April 1927; Jno. A. Brown, 26 Dec. 1863 - 23 June 1893; John Andrew Brown, 4 June 1890 - 3 Nov. 1974; Mary Jones Brown, 5 Oct. 1895 - 20 Feb. 1977.
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The book, THE BARROW FAMILY OF VIRGINIA, 1620-1972, by Mae Belle Barrow North, page 48, shows that Corinne Brown, a sister of the deceased James Moss Brown, married Peter Spencer Brown. The parents of Peter and Corinne were John Andrew Brown and Pattie Smith. (source:Bruce Locke).
THE HENRY BULLETIN, Martinsville, Va., Tue., April 12, 1927, p. 4, col. 1 [edited].
With a Marine Corps escort of honor guarding the body, funeral services will be held this afternoon for J. Moss Brown, 33, who died Sunday afternoon following an operation at the League Island Naval Hospital near Philadelphia. Services will be conducted at 3:00 o'clock from the home of J. A. Brown, Church Street, brother of the deceased. American Legion post will be in charge of the funeral. After a service at the hospital, the body will arrive here this morning, accompanied by Mrs. A. M. Hodgson of Richmond, who reached her brother a few hours afer he died Sunday. Another sister, Mrs. P. S. Barrow of Bluefield, W. Va., arrived Monday.
Mr. Brown enlisted in the marine corps at the start of the war and was one of the escorts for President Wilson on his trip to Europe. He was present at the surrender of the German fleet at the close of the war.
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Ref. OAKWOOD CEMETERY LOT INDEX, Third Edn. 1990, Comp. by Martinsville Cemetery Assn., Inc., some burials in Sect. 1, Lot 28: James Moss Brown, died 10 April 1927; Jno. A. Brown, 26 Dec. 1863 - 23 June 1893; John Andrew Brown, 4 June 1890 - 3 Nov. 1974; Mary Jones Brown, 5 Oct. 1895 - 20 Feb. 1977.
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The book, THE BARROW FAMILY OF VIRGINIA, 1620-1972, by Mae Belle Barrow North, page 48, shows that Corinne Brown, a sister of the deceased James Moss Brown, married Peter Spencer Brown. The parents of Peter and Corinne were John Andrew Brown and Pattie Smith. (source:Bruce Locke).
VA 1st SGT USMC
THE HENRY BULLETIN, Martinsville, Va., Tue., April 12, 1927, p. 4, col. 1 [edited].
With a Marine Corps escort of honor guarding the body, funeral services will be held this afternoon for J. Moss Brown, 33, who died Sunday afternoon following an operation at the League Island Naval Hospital near Philadelphia. Services will be conducted at 3:00 o'clock from the home of J. A. Brown, Church Street, brother of the deceased. American Legion post will be in charge of the funeral. After a service at the hospital, the body will arrive here this morning, accompanied by Mrs. A. M. Hodgson of Richmond, who reached her brother a few hours afer he died Sunday. Another sister, Mrs. P. S. Barrow of Bluefield, W. Va., arrived Monday.
Mr. Brown enlisted in the marine corps at the start of the war and was one of the escorts for President Wilson on his trip to Europe. He was present at the surrender of the German fleet at the close of the war.
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Ref. OAKWOOD CEMETERY LOT INDEX, Third Edn. 1990, Comp. by Martinsville Cemetery Assn., Inc., some burials in Sect. 1, Lot 28: James Moss Brown, died 10 April 1927; Jno. A. Brown, 26 Dec. 1863 - 23 June 1893; John Andrew Brown, 4 June 1890 - 3 Nov. 1974; Mary Jones Brown, 5 Oct. 1895 - 20 Feb. 1977.
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The book, THE BARROW FAMILY OF VIRGINIA, 1620-1972, by Mae Belle Barrow North, page 48, shows that Corinne Brown, a sister of the deceased James Moss Brown, married Peter Spencer Brown. The parents of Peter and Corinne were John Andrew Brown and Pattie Smith. (source:Bruce Locke).
THE HENRY BULLETIN, Martinsville, Va., Tue., April 12, 1927, p. 4, col. 1 [edited].
With a Marine Corps escort of honor guarding the body, funeral services will be held this afternoon for J. Moss Brown, 33, who died Sunday afternoon following an operation at the League Island Naval Hospital near Philadelphia. Services will be conducted at 3:00 o'clock from the home of J. A. Brown, Church Street, brother of the deceased. American Legion post will be in charge of the funeral. After a service at the hospital, the body will arrive here this morning, accompanied by Mrs. A. M. Hodgson of Richmond, who reached her brother a few hours afer he died Sunday. Another sister, Mrs. P. S. Barrow of Bluefield, W. Va., arrived Monday.
Mr. Brown enlisted in the marine corps at the start of the war and was one of the escorts for President Wilson on his trip to Europe. He was present at the surrender of the German fleet at the close of the war.
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Ref. OAKWOOD CEMETERY LOT INDEX, Third Edn. 1990, Comp. by Martinsville Cemetery Assn., Inc., some burials in Sect. 1, Lot 28: James Moss Brown, died 10 April 1927; Jno. A. Brown, 26 Dec. 1863 - 23 June 1893; John Andrew Brown, 4 June 1890 - 3 Nov. 1974; Mary Jones Brown, 5 Oct. 1895 - 20 Feb. 1977.
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The book, THE BARROW FAMILY OF VIRGINIA, 1620-1972, by Mae Belle Barrow North, page 48, shows that Corinne Brown, a sister of the deceased James Moss Brown, married Peter Spencer Brown. The parents of Peter and Corinne were John Andrew Brown and Pattie Smith. (source:Bruce Locke).
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