This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brown Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mAB.2ACE/2430.1 Message Board Post: CY BROWN DEAD Christian County's Popular Representative Passes Away HE HAD HELD THREE OR FOUR COUNTY OFFICES IN CHRISTIAN--COMMUNITY SHOCKED AT HIS SUDDEN TAKING OFF The Hon. Cyrus M. BROWN, Christian county's representative in the Kentucky Legislature, died at 11 o'clock Sunday night from dysentery at this room on Court street. The community was shocked and grieved, for the end was not expected. There was not a more popular man in the county. In North Christian, his name was a household word. As a stump speaker, he had few peers in the South. He was a very talented man, and a poet and writer of no mean ability. He was born near Crofton in 1848. His father was the Rev. Enoch S. BROWN, a prominent Christian minister. He was graduated at the Princeton, Ky., college, and for a number of years taught school. He served four years as sheriff and six years as circuit clerk of Christian county, and was elected representative last year. He was considered the finest orator in the House. (Source: Earlington Bee, Thur., Aug. 13, 1896)