page_title: Uriah Brown
section_title: Illness, death and interment
hierarchical_section_title: Uriah Brown / Illness, death and interment
context_page_description: Uriah H. Brown was a United States soldier who fought with the Union Army during the American Civil War as a member of Company G, 30th Ohio Infantry. He received the Medal of Honor, his country's highest award for bravery during combat, for his actions during the Battle of Vicksburg in Mississippi on 22 May 1863. That award was conferred on August 15, 1894.
context_section_description: Shortly after the turn of the century, a federal census taker documented that Brown was still a farmer and still residing with his second wife, Sarah, in Hanover Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and also noted that Brown's daughter, Alice, was also living with him. Shown on that year's census as "Ella A. Brown", she was described as having been born in West Virginia in September 1882. That year's census taker also noted that Brown had been married to his second wife, Sarah, for only 16 years (wed circa 1884), and that she had never given birth to any children during their marriage, thereby confirming that Brown had, in fact, been married twice.
  In 1906, Brown was awarded a U.S. Civil War Pension of $12 per month; that rate was then raised to $25 per month when his pension was reissued in 1913. In subsequent years, his pension rate continued to rise steadily in recognition of the increasing level of disability he was experiencing as a direct result of the wounds he sustained in combat during the Civil War. By 1927, he was collecting a pension of $100 per month, which included "a special pension of $10 per month under Act of April 27, 1916, providing for Medal of Honor Roll", according to his United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Card. Still residing with his second wife, and Ella Brown (his daughter from his first marriage) in Hanover Township in 1910, Brown continued to farm the land.
   On February 11, 1918, he was admitted to the U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, Ohio, where he was diagnosed as suffering from arteriosclerosis and myocarditis, as well as an "old injury to head". His admissions ledger entry also noted that he was 5'7" tall with dark hair, blue eyes and a fair complexion, that he was separated from his wife at this time, that he had been employed as a mason prior to his admission to the soldiers' home, and that his nearest living relative was his nephew, John L. Ramsey, who lived in Hollidays Cove, West Virginia. He was then discharged from the home, at his own request, on March 25 of that same year.
  During the fall of 1924, his daughter, Ella, died in Hollidays Cove, West Virginia. Following her death on October 19, her remains were returned to Pennsylvania, and interred at the Paris Cemetery in Washington County.
  Suffering from nephritis, Brown finally succumbed to complications from the disease in Hollidays Cove on January 24, 1927. His widow served as the informant on his death certificate. His remains were returned to Pennsylvania, and interred at the Paris Cemetery in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
caption: U.S. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Dayton, Ohio (G. F. Gates, c. early 1900s).
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