Crittenden County <br> CW Soldier Obit

Crittenden Press
March 11, 1927

Rutherford Barton Brown

Rutherford Barton Brown, 82 years old, died last Thursday, March 3, at at the home of his son, Pierce Brown, in Curlew. Mr. Brown had been making his home with his son for the past year. Death came after an illness of about two weeks. The deceased man formerly lived in this county but was a native of Wilson County, Tennessee, where he lived until the Civil War. At the age of 17 he enlisted in the Confederate army and served thruout the remainder of the war. Mr. Brown was married to Miss Mary J. Cook of Wilson County, Tennessee.