EV. G. W. BROWN was born October 24,1827, and died November 23, 1896, and was buried at Cedar Grove (now New Hope) in Rockingham county, Virginia. He was set apart to the work of the gospel ministry, November 3, 1876, and at the Central Valley Conference held at the church at Joppa, in 1877, he was received into the Conference as a member of the body. Though he did not take upon himself the obligations of a minister till he had passed the meridian of life, yet he became an able and successful preacher of the gospel. He was considered a strong man, vigorous of intellect, fertile in thought, apt in the presentation of the truths of the blessed gospel of the Son of God. His ministerial labors extended over a period of twenty years. He labored in Rockingham and the counties contiguous thereto.

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