Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Brothers, Albert 1923
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The Belding Banner-News, Wednesday, November 14, 1923


Al Brothers, aged about 73 years, a well known Orleans resident, who lived 
alone in his home near Chadwick, was found dead on the floor of his home Sunday 
morning, by Fred Wheeler, a neighbor and friend, who had gone to Mr. Brothers’ 
home to pay him some wages due for work and also to visit with him for a short 
time.

Brothers had been working for Mr. Chadwick in potato digging and on Saturday, 
November 3, had gone home, telling Mr. Wheeler that he would return again 
Monday morning for work.  Brothers failed to show up all during the week and 
after waiting for a week for him to show up, Mr. Wheeler decided to go over to 
the man’s home and pay him for what work he had done and visit with him for a 
short time.  Wheeler reached the house where Brothers lived at about 11 o’clock 
and tried one of the doors and found it locked.  While going around the house, 
he looked into one of the windows and saw Mr. Brothers lying on the floor.  He 
then went around to the kitchen and entered.

Brothers lay with his face down on the floor.  He was fully dressed and from 
all appearances had entered the house and was about to pass from his kitchen 
into the bedroom when he was stricken.  His head lay partly in the bedroom, 
with his hat about a foot away, where it had rolled when he fell and the rest 
of his body was in the kitchen.

Mr. Wheeler notified neighbors and relatives of the dead man and Justice George 
Hill, of Orleans impaneled a coroner’s jury of the following men who held the 
inquest: Frank Treynor, Harris Bolster, Glen Sprague, Floyd Dickerson and Alf. 
Parker.  The verdict was that deceased came to his death as a result of an 
attack of heart failure and that death had undoubtedly taken place on Friday of 
last week.

No one had seen or talked with Brothers since the Sunday before and Mrs. 
Parker, the nearest neighbor, says that she had not noticed any smoke coming 
from the house chimney, nor had she observed any sign of life around the place 
since Sunday, but Ermon Marshall, a nephew by marriage of the dead man, says 
that he came past the place on Thursday night and saw a light there at that 
time.  This would indicate that Brothers was still with the living on Thursday 
night and that he had got up and dressed himself Friday morning.  This is 
entirely guesswork, however and some think that the man had been dead for about 
a week before he was found.

Undertaker Fruce Fales was called and took charge of the body.  He brought it 
to the Wick-Fales undertaking rooms.  The funeral was held on Tuesday afternoon 
at two o’clock at the home of his sister, Mrs. Wm. Wheeler, Rev. H. E. Curch, 
pastor of the Church of Christ of this city, officiating and burial was in 
Green’s cemetery.

Mr. Brothers had never married and came to Chadwick about 25 years ago from 
Sand Lake where the family lived until that time.


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