At the home of her son, Henry R. Brown, near Hopkinton City, R. I., April 13, 1885, Mrs. Susan Wilcox Brown, aged 83 years, 3 months, 6 days. When about twelve years of age sister Brown experienced religion and united with the Six Principle Baptists at Wood River. In later years she united with the Second Hopkinton Seventh-day Baptist Church of which she remained an estimable member until death. She was married to Christopher Brown in 1820, and in the following year they began keeping house in the home where she died, they had lived together about sixty years. Mr. Brown died Feb. 13, 1881. Sister Brown was a woman of genuine worth. As a wife and mother she was fondly devoted, as a neighbor, kind and helpful, and as a Christian, faithful and true. She was especially kind to the afflicted and the unfortunate, as was seen in the care she gave her mother-in-law, and others who found cordial welcome in her hospitable home. During her last sickness she was carefully tended by her children and friends. “Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil for thou art with me.” “The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms.” Interment in Oak Grove Cemetery, Ashaway.
L. F. R.
