John Wallace Brown

Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 29 August 1911, page 5

The funeral of John Brown, retired Sergeant of the "Fighting Sixth" who committed suicide early yesterday morning at the home of Louis Leicht, 176 Ft Thomas av. was held this afternoon at the chapel in Evergreen. Interment was in the soldiers and sailors lot.

A trumpeter from the Cincinnati Recruiting Station and a firing squad from the Ohio National Guard were secured to give him a military funeral. Rev John G Schaiebly of Grace M E Church, Newport, conducted the service. It was found at the inquest that Brown was a widower and that his wife died years ago in Ashtabula, Ohio. His effects were turned over to Chief of Louis Cook to be given to the infirmary inmates.

 

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