Sanilac County MI Archives Obituaries.....Brown, Mary Jane January 22, 1915
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Cass City Chronicle - Jan. 29, 1915
BEREAVEMENT DOUBLY SAD
Mrs. J. E. Brown of Cumber Died Eleven Days After Son.
(Contributed).

Mary Jane Brown of Cumber died Jan. 22 and was buried Jan. 25 after a short 
illness of eight days from pneumonia. Her death came as a shock to the 
community in which she lived as she had been in good health previously.  

Just eleven days before her death she had lost a son from the same dread 
disease, and as she had been constantly and untiringly caring for him during 
his sickness and being broken hearted at his death, it seemed she had little 
energy to throw off the disease when it came to her.  

Mrs. Brown, whose maiden name was Mary Jane Irvine, was born in Norfolk 
county, Ontario, and married James E. Brown of the same place.  They came to 
Sanilac county in 1880 with their one child and settled on the farm near 
Cumber. They went through the forest fire of 1881 losing all they had, but 
being of a courageous spirit and having faith in the land of their choice, 
they started again and built up their present comfortable and spacious home 
and reared their nine children, four daughters and five sons, all of whom with 
their father (except James at whose funeral she contracted her present 
illness) were able to be with her during her last sickness and did all that 
love and devotion and unceasing care could do to bring her back to health. But 
the All Wise Father had ordered it differently and on Friday morning she 
passed peacefully away to her rest.  

In faith, Mrs. Brown had always been a Methodist and was always interested in 
any good work that was for the uplift and betterment of the community. She was 
a valued member of the Ladies' Aid society of the church and W. C. T, U.  She 
was one of a family of ten children, seven sisters and two brothers.  The 
sisters were Mrs. Nell Osterby of Johnstown, New York; Mrs. Elgin Mason 
Simcoe, Ont.; Mrs. Jack Howard, Brantford, Ont.; Mrs. (Dr) Park, Chesley, 
Ont., who died in 1903; Mrs. J. W. Williams Of Winnipeg, who predeceased
her just six months ago and Mrs. Wesley Schuyler and Mrs. Arthur Porter of 
Jarvis, Ontario, who were with her at the time of her death. The brothers are 
Robert of Hagersville, Ont., and Lindsay on the old homestead with an aged 
mother.  Her father died about fourteen years ago.

Cass City Chronicle, Cass City, Mich., Friday, January 29, 1915
 
SOURCE:  Rawson Library
 
http://newspapers.rawson.lib.mi.us/chronicle/ccc1915%20(e)/issues/01-29-
1915_1.pdf

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