BROWNE, Joseph J - CW - Putnam

The GAR will conduct funeral services for Joseph J. Browne, 624 E. 12th Street, Civil War veteran and for 14 years secretary and treasurer of the Solders & Sailors’ Monument who died Sunday at the home at 1:30 o’clock this afternoon.  Elden Mills, pastor of the First Friends Church will officiate. Burial will be at Plainfield.  Mr. Browne was born at Waynesville, Ohio in 1846. After obtaining his early education there and in Plainfield he worked on his father’s farm at Waynesville until the Civil War, when he joined the Northern Army.  He served throughout the war in Company B, 180th Ohio volunteer infantry.  One year after the war, he married Miss Rose E. Greist, who died Jan 19, 1911. In 1916 he married Mrs. Gertrude Hardee.  He was employed by the Evans Linseed Oil Company 25 years prior to becoming connected with the Monument Management staff.  He belonged to the First Friends Church and George H. Thomas Post, GAR.  Surviving besides the widow are two daughters, Mrs. Orlando Marine of NY and Mrs. William E. Birdsall of Boston, Mass; two stepdaughters, Miss Mercedes Marion Hardee and Mrs. Glenn J. Pell, both of Indianapolis; four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Active pallbearers will be Edward D. Evans, Birney Spradling, Asher B. Evans, Charlton Carter, Capt. Perley Wimmer and Capt. Clarence Tucker. Honorary pallbearers are George H. Evans, Col Oran Perry, Fred A. Sims, the Rev. Enoch Wood, Col. AB Champton, HH Friedly, Dr. Amos Carter and Lewis Nicoli.

Mr. Browne was a son-in-law of Mrs. WP Wimmer, south Indiana Street, Greencastle.