BROWN, Emma (Cox)
Date of death: 22 May 1891 – Johnson County, Indiana
Franklin Republican, May 29, 1891
MRS. ISAAC BROWN.
Mrs. Brown, wife of Isaac Brown who is brother of ex-postmaster, Ben. P. Brown, died at the family residence, near Amity, on last Friday evening. For some time she had been a sufferer from the dreaded disease, consumption, but her death was sudden and unexpected. She leaves a husband and a son two years old, besides a large circle of friends to mourn the departure of a true woman. The funeral services were conducted at the Amity Baptist church, Sunday afternoon, by Prof. C. H. Hall. The remains were brought to Greenlawn cemetery for interment.
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, May 29, 1891,
Volume XXXI Number 49, page 3 column 1
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Mrs. Isaac Brown, of Amity, died on last Friday afternoon at 5 o’clock of consumption. While Mrs. Brown had been sick for a long time still her death was unexpected, she having been able to be about until the day of her death. The funeral took place on Sunday afternoon and was very largely attended by relatives and friends. A devoted husband and a little son are left to mourn her loss.
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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, June 5, 1891,
Volume XXXI Number 50, page 6 column 2
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OBITUARY.
Emma Cox Brown departed this life after an illness of about four months on the eve of May 22nd 1891, at her home in Amity, Johnson Co, Ind. She was born in Amity, Dec 2nd 1868, was married to Isaac Brown on Aug. 29th 1888. While in the midst of the joys of life, she was taken with that dread disease, consumption and the grim monster, Death called and she obeyed, leaving a husband and one child besides many aching hearts to mourn her loss.
She was a member of the Amity Baptist church and lived a devoted Christian life, though burdened with the mortality common to all so long as we are upon the earth.
During her sickness she was not heard to murmur or complain, but bore her sickness with a smiling patience until death had sealed her lips.
Here, there is a vacancy; in heaven one more tie; on earth, one less. No mother’s voice is heard speaking a warning word to guide aright the footsteps of her child or impart a word of cheer to the husband and father. No more will her form cross the threshold of your home. She cannot come to you, but you may go to her.
May each member of this family be so guided that they may form an unbroken family circle around the throne of God, there to sing his praise forever.
Funeral services were held at the Amity church by Rev. Hall, from the text which she selected—found in the fifth chapter first verse of 2nd Corinthians: “For we know that if the earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a house not made with hands eternal in the heavens.”
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Link to Emma (Cox) Brown’s grave
Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Marriage Index, 1882–1920, referencing Book 6, age 182, records that Isaac N. Brown married Emma Cox on 29 Aug 1888.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson