DEATHS - At his residence in Napoleon on Monday morning, the 24th inst., WILLIAM CHASE BROWNELL, aged 49 years, 9 months and 18 days.
WM. C. BROWNELL was one of the Pioneers in the settlement of Henry county. In the fall of 1834, he left, with an amiable and beloved companion and several small children, the comforts and privileges of an old and highly improved part of Eastern New York, to try his fortune in the then almost unbroken wilderness of the Maumee Valley, inhabited chiefly by the uncivilized Wyandot, Ottawa and Pottawatamie Indians. He struggled through the many privations incident to Pioneer life, sustained and cleared by her who had shared with him in prosperity, and now suffered with him in hardship and adversity, with Christian fortitude and resignation, until the year 1842, when her Heavenly Father said, "It is enough - come up higher." Her place in his heart nor home could never be supplied; and upon himself devolved the whole charge of supporting and educating, morally and intellectually, his young family. How that trust has been discharged, let the character of his children, moral, religious and intellectual, answer. As if to repay his care, he has been permitted to see them all arrive at an age capable of sustaining themselves.
Of WM. C. BROWNELL as a Father, Neighbor and Christian, nothing can be said which could increase the respect and esteem of his fellow citizens. He was a noble specimen of that noblest work of God, and honest man, and deservedly had the profound respect of all who knew him.
In his death, the cause of Morality and Religion has lost an advocate who carried into practice all their virtues, Society a useful member, and his Children a kind and good parent.
He died, to use his own words, "in peace," relying upon the Christian's hope.