BROWN, James Clarence

Date of birth:  23 Nov 1893 – Johnson County, Indiana
Date of death: 5 Oct 1897 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, October 8, 1897,
Volume XXXVIII Number 13, page 1 column 5

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Fatal Accident.

On Tuesday evening about six o’clock a most distressing accident hap­pened at the home of James F. Brown, just south of town on the State road.

During milking time Mr. Brown’s four-year-old son, Clarence, was play­ing in the barn lot, running and climbing about. When Mr. Brown fin­ished up his work he called to the boy and receiving no answer he supposed he had gone to the house, but when he reached there he found the boy had not yet come in. A search for him was at once instituted and he was found lying under a heavy wagon bed, dead. The wagon bed had been leaning up against some lumber and the little fellow had climbed upon it and it had fallen, crushing him under it.

The funeral took place from the res­idence yesterday morning at 10 o’clock, services being conducted by Eld. Fraz­ier.

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Link to James Clarence Brown’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Birth Index, 1882–1920, referencing Book H-3, page 9, records that a white male infant was born to James F. Brown and Lydia Johnson on 23 Nov 1893.

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry