Contra Costa County CA Archives Obituaries.....Brown, Lawrence M. August 1, 1877
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The Contra Costa Gazette, August 4, 1877
The Contra Costa Gazette (Martinez), August 4, 1877 (Saturday).  Page 2, Column 
6.
“DIED. BROWN – In Martinez, August 1st, Lawrence M. Brown, aged 44 years, 6 
months and 13 days.” END  

AND

The Contra Costa Gazette (Martinez), August 4, 1877 (Saturday).  Page 3, Column 
2.

“DEATH OF A PIONEER RESIDENT.  Lawrence M. Brown, Esq., who died at his 
residence in Martinez on Wednesday morning [August 1] last, after a protracted 
and trying illness, was the youngest of the children of Hon. Elam Brown of 
Lafayette, and one of the earliest pioneer residents of the county, having 
removed here with his father and family in 1847, from San Jose, where they 
arrived late in the preceding year, after the long, and then hazardous journey 
over the plains.  Lawrence was then a boy of but thirteen years, and all the 
thirty years since then, as boy and man, he has lived with the people of this 
county, to nearly all of whom he was personally known, and they will long 
cherish a rememberance [sic] of his gentle and amiable qualities of character.  
The deceased leaves a widowed wife [Mary], two sons [Eugene and Cornelius], his 
venerable father, now eighty years of age, two brothers, Judge Thomas A. Brown 
and ex-Sheriff Warren Brown, and a sister, Mrs. N[apoleon] B[onaparte] Smith, 
together with many other relatives and friends to mourn his decease in the 
prime of manhood.

The funeral on Friday [August 3] was largely attended by friends from various 
portions of the county, the Pacheco Lodge of Odd Fellows directing the 
observances in accordance with the ritual and forms of the order, the religious 
services being held at the Congregational church, Rev. Mr. Tuthill officiating, 
and delivering an appropriate funeral discourse.” END  [Burial in Alhambra 
Cemetery, Martinez]

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