Mobile County AlArchives Obituaries.....Brown, Billy February 1901 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002476 January 22, 2005, 5:31 pm The Marion County Patriot, March 1, 1901 The Marion County Patriot, No. 9 March 1, 1901 Page One Over a Hundred Years Old Mobile, Feb. 25 – Billy Brown, the oldest negro of this vicinity, is dead. Bill was 110 years old and carried papers to prove the fact. He had been very active until a few days ago, when he took a cold, contracted pneumonia and died. His death certificate states his age at 110. He claimed to remember many of the prominent men for a century or more. He had been married three times. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/mobile/obits/ob407brown.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb