BURIAL: Just west of D.S. Brainard monument at Riverside Cemetery and immediately next to Nellie and Russell's gravestones.

OBIT: Name: Brainard, Robert Leslie
Date: August 1, 1921
Source: Source unknown; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #009.
Notes: Brainard-Robert Leslie, beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. Russel Brainard, and brother of Mrs. B. J. Norris; private Marine Headquarters Company, Fifth Regiment, who died June 13, 1918 of wounds received in action at Chateau Thierry, France. Military funeral from the residence of his parents, 2223 Broadview, Tuesday, Aug. 2, at 2:30 p. m.

CENSUS: 1910 census specifies that he was the adopted son of Russell Brainard.