Putnam patriot., 1912-08-09
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 pany k, Eleventh Connecticut voluu- teers, for service in the Civil war, re- maining in the army four years and four months, during which he saw hard fighting on many fields, particu- larly in the blooay struggle at Antie- tam. After the war he returned to Pemfret. During the early years of his life MT. Brown was occupied as \ | shoemaker, but later he engaged in farming and successfully carried on his place for many years. On account of failing health Mir. Brown sold his place few months ago. June 27, ls52, MT. Brown married Phoebe A. Braekett, they passing the siXtieth anniversary of their wedding a little more than month ago. Mir Brown Is survived by his wife, one daughter, Mrs. Harry Burgess, and by one granddaughter, Mrs. Arthur J. Shippee.
 Funeral services were held at, East Putnam Saturday, Rev. George ID. Stanley of the Putnam Methodist church officiating. Burial was in the Putnam Heights cemetery. The bear CTS were Edwin Wood, Charles Will COX, MT Burgess and Arthur J. Shippee.
 ELLEN VICTORIA SESSIONS ALLEN
 Ellen Victoria Sessions Allen was born in Abingdon on April 10th, 1857 She was the daughter of Eliakim Will Jams and Esther Wilkinson Sessions. Educated at Woodstock and later in Norton, now Wheaton Seminary, she early developed a natural taste for the excellent in literature. Her old friends still speak atiectionately of their mem ories of her sunny girlhood in the midst of the social life of the village fifty and sixty years ago. In June, 1861, she married George Allen, aud a few years later moved to the home which they built and where they lived for forty years. Constant friendly intercourse with the elderly people she knew awaken ed in her a regard for the past and her mind became treasure-house of local history. To talk with her was to find the past made present, rich with as- certained facts in endless store, and colored with flashes of otherwise for gotten wit and tales of one or another sturdy or sweet character of long ago.
  A descendant of Roger Williams and John Eliot, her familiarity with genealogy was by no means confined extended over a wide circle of acquaint- anees and friends.
 l As years passed and outside action was denied, her outer interests were ], stronger. No friend was forgotten, no event of the world of affairs escaped her interested comment.
 In June, 1911, was celebrated their golden wedding. The following months brought increasing bodily pain, but she summed the thoughts of opiates with an endurance worthy of her Puritan and Revolutionary ances- tors, who in the dearth of modern sur gery relied on Christian fortitude. To l the last minutes of her life her mind was calm and clear. She fell asleep peacefully on Saturday, August 3rd. | The interment was on Monday after | noon.
 Years ago she had said one day that she wished to have read at her burial service, Dr. Ed win Arnolds famous poem. It was in truth the very mes- sage she would have desired to give her sorrowing family and friends. "Love the inmate, not the room; The wearer, not the garb the plume On the falcon, not the bars
 That kept him from those splendid stars.
 1 am gone before your face | A moments time, a little space. | When ye come where 1 have stepped Ye will wonder why ye wept. Be ye stout of heart and come l Bravely onward to your home. | He who died at Azan sends | This to comfort all his friends