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Obituary	JAMES L. BRAWN Early on the morning of April 21st This, the oldest citizen of Dexter, and holder of the “Post Cane,” passed from the scenes of earth. He was apparently as well as usual and was up, and about the place at an early He had gone out of the house and not returning as soon as was expected search was begun and he was found but a little distance away lying straight upon his back without a bruise or trace of struggle to mark his passing from earth. He and his wife who is some years his junior in age had been unable carry on the active work of life and had come to make their home with Mr. L. S. Trundy on a little farm he had pur- Chased just north of the village that He might care for them. They had been kind to him when he was but a boarder with them, and when they were no longer able to work and there was none to care for them, just as if he had been a son, he bought the little place and brought them to it, and there they lived til Mr. Brawn’s death and there the widow continues to live. Although Mr. Trundy is not related to him in any way, and though hav- ing no family of his own, he has cared for them with a tenderness and liberality most commendable. The three of them made a family, sharing as they could the numerous home and household duties. Mr. Trundy has declined any assistance which could wound a sensitive nature and he pro- vided an entirely fitting funeral for him whom he was wont to call "Uncle Jim”. James L. Brawn was born at Mill- Burn, Me., March 29, 1820, and was 91 years, 21 days old at his death. He moved to Wisconsin in early life and was a teamster of both horse and ox, and said to be superior. He married Miss Mary E. Harriman about 1864. Some ten years later he %0