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The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, November 6, 1887
pg. 4

LITTLE JENNIE
Last Sunday evening at 25 minutes to 5 o'clock the pure soul of little Jennie Browell winged its way to its heavenly home. God, in his inscrutable wisdom, has transplanted to the garden of Paradise this beautiful little innocent, whose brief stay on earth was the cause of so much joy and happiness to those who knew her. She was 2 years old at the time of her death, and her short life was filled with so many bright incidents that her taking away was all the more keenly felt by her parents and friends.
The funeral took place Monday. A sad circumstance connected with the death of little Jennie Browell is the fact that her father, Mr. John Browell, was in California at the time, and was prevented by ill health from being present at the death of his little one.

....The little 4-year-old daughter of Mrs. Browell, living on Bond street, died yesterday afternoon of diphtheria and was buried today in Oakwood Cemetery. Mr. Browell was formerly an engineer on the Missouri Pacific out of Denison, but is now of California, and found it impossible to be present at the death of his child....

The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, November 13, 1887
pg. 4

In last week's Gazetteeer appeared an obituary notice of little Jennie Browell, who died at the residence of her mother, on Bond street, on Sunday, October 30th. In that notice it was stated that the father, Mr. John Browell was absent in California and was unable to be present at the death of his child. The death of her little daughter was a sad blow to Mrs. Browell, and in her misery and grief, after laying her little darling away, she determined to leave Denison and join her husband who has been running an engine on a road out of Needles, California. She had matured her plans and was disposing of her effects preparatory to starting with her remaining 2 children for the scene of her husband's labors, when, on Sunday, she received a telegram which crushed out this last hope and ray of consolation, and added the last drop to her cup of bitterness and despair. It contained the information that her husband was dead - killed in a railroad wreck, and that his remains would be forwarded to Denison for interment.
The remains of Mr. John Browell arrived in the city Thursday morning and were conveyed to the Presbyterian Church, Burnett avenue, where the funeral services were held, after which a large concourse of friends of the deceased and of the almost broken widow attended the remains to Oakwood Cemetery, where the interment took place. The Gazetteer joins with a sympathetic community in extending condolence to the bereaved family in this most poignant affliction.