Rev. Thomas Dain Brown

BROWN, WILLIAMS, MINERT

Posted By: Marlene Skalberg (email)
Date: 7/29/2015 at 10:04:10

Rev Thomas Dain Brown Aged 93 years, 11 months, 23 days
Villisca Review Last Sunday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Josephine Minert, in Nodaway there fell asleep one of the oldest inhabitants in this part of the country, Rev. T. D. Brown, founder of the first Methodist Church in Villisca as well as in Nodaway, and for sixty-five years a devoted Christian and hard worker for the community in which he lived. His death is a grat blow to the Methodist Churches in this part of the state. Rev. Brown was well known to the old settlers of this and Adams Counties, having come to Iowa in the year of 1865, settling on M. Cowgill’s place south of this city, and his passing evoked many expressions of regret from them. He was born in Lowden County, Virginia, April 9, 1812, while the second great war with England was in progress. Moving to Ohio which was then a western country, when but a boy, he united with the Methodist Church and on the ninth of March 1830, married Miss Mary E. Williams go Highland County, Ohio. To this union were born, twelve children, seven of whom are still living. Before leaving Ohio for this state, he was licensed to exhort, and the license is still in the family’s possession, boars date of 1848. Funeral services over the remains were held at the M. E. Church in Nodaway, Tuesday afternoon and were witnessed by a large assembly of friends. Interment took place in cemetery here.
Adams County Free Press, April 7, 1906, page 7