BREWER, Mora Edward “Morey”

Date of birth:  1874 – Johnson County, Indiana
Date of death: 20 Nov 1899 – Whiteland, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, November 24, 1899,
Volume XL Number 20, page 1 column 4

Local and Personal.

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Edward Brewer, postmaster at White­land, and son of Samuel Brewer, died Monday morning about two o’clock. He had been in his usual health Sunday, attended church and not until late in the evening felt any distress. On previous occasions he had suffered from what seemed neuralgia of the stomach. Sun­day evening, after enduring consider­able pain in the region of his stomach, he went to Dr. Terhune and was given a hypodermic injection of morphine to allay the pain as had been done on previous occasions. Returning home he retired and fell into a slumber. About midnight he awaken­ed, saying “My train is about ready to start,” and call­ing the name of his wife, bid her goodbye. Mrs. Brewer, seeing his con­dition, became alarmed and sent for the physician. However, nothing could be done to revive Mr. Brewer who had relapsed in that condition until two o’­clock when he passed away. Deceased was twenty-five years old and leaves a wife and one little son. Funeral services were held Wednesday morning in the Presbyterian church at Whiteland, con­ducted by Rev. M. L. Pearson.

Link to Mora Edward “Morey” Brewer’s grave

Notes: Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Page No. 40, records that twenty-five-year, four month, twenty-day-old Mora Edward Brewer died from heart failure caused by gastralgia*, duration eight hours, at 2 a.m. on 20 Nov 1899 in Whiteland, Pleasant Township, Johnson County, Indiana. He was male, white and married, a merchant, born in Johnson County. His father’s name was Samuel E. Brewer and his mother’s maiden name Melissa Springer. Both were born in Johnson County, Indiana. He was buried in Greenwood on 22 Nov 1899, undertaker Covert & Covert.

Indiana, United Methodist Church Records, 1837–1970, referencing Whiteland MEC Membership Record, 1893–1908, records in Book VI page 258 that Mora Edward Brewer married Mary Letitia Pearson on 26 Aug 1895. Both were twenty-two-years-old.

The 1880 US Federal Census for Pleasant, Johnson County, Indiana records thirty-seven-year-old, Indiana-born farmer and saw mill operator Samuel E. Brewer, his thirty-five-year-old, Indiana-born wife Melissa A. Brewer and their Indiana-born children, twelve-year-old Annie L., eight-year-old Fannie E. and six-year-old Morey E. Brewer.

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*Gastralgia is gastric pain which has many origins but can be caused by a heart attack.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson