Holland Evening Sentinel, September 6, 1939

Saugatuck—Sept. 6.

Joshua J. Brown, 95, last Civil War veteran in Saugatuck Township, succumbed at 2:15 p. m. Tuesday at his home here following a five day illness.

For the past two days he has been in a coma, and his condition continued to grow worse until his death. Mr. Brown was injured in an automobile accident about three years ago and never fully recovered. His health was also impaired by the death of a daughter, Mrs. Mabel Soderstrom, who died Dec. 8, 1938.

Funeral services will be held from his home Thursday at 2:30 p.m. with the Rev. Horace E. Maycroft officiating. Masonic rites will be held at the grave. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Saugatuck.

Mr. Brown is survived by one son, James; two daughters, Misses Edith and Ella, all of Saugatuck; two grand children and one great-grandchild. His wife succumbed in 1933.

He was born in Cheboygan, Wisconsin, May 3, 1814, and was graduated from high school there when 17 years old. Soon after his graduation he went to Chicago and was apprentice for three years in a drug store.

When he was 29 years old, he enlisted in the 14^th Illinois Cavalry. He engaged in battles at Atlanta, Resaca, Knoxville, Bran Station, and Strawberry Plains, and was with General Sherman on his march from Atlanta to the sea.

After the war, he returned to Chicago but was advised to spend most of his time out of doors. The Civil War veteran was the oldest coast guard captain and guardsman in the United States. He was the first captain of the coast guard station at Ludington when it was established there many years ago.

Upon leaving the coast guard service, Mr. Brown moved to Saugatuck about 35 years ago. He became a painter and decorator. He retired from business a few years ago.

He was a resident of Chicago at the time of the 1871 fire. Afterwards he married Miss

Eudora Morgan, daughter of the late Captain Sanford Morgan. Five children were born, one dying in infancy.

He was a life member of Saugatuck Lodge, No. 328, F. & A. M. and a member of the "Pap" Thomas Post, of the G. A. R., Chicago, having joined in 1867. He was the only living member of the J. M. Pond Post of Saugatuck.