Rowan County NcArchives Obituaries.....Brandon, Col. John May 3, 1837 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Suzzette Yandle yandles2@charter.net January 12, 2008, 7:51 pm Genealogical Abstracts from Newspapers of the German Reformed Church, 1830-1839, Barbara Manning author, Heritage Books, 1992 Rowan Co NC Col. John Brandon of Rowan Co NC was accidentally killed in Salisbury NC on Wednesday 03 May 1837 while felling a tree, it crushed him to death about 4 pm and he died about 11pm the same evening; [looks like his death first published in Salisbury NC on the 6th of May; notice published 17 May 1837. Additional Comments: Some NC Deaths from the book “Genealogical Abstracts from Newspapers of the German Reformed Church 1830-1839”, by Barbara Manning; extracts from the newspaper The Weekly Messenger of the German Reformed Church, published in Chambersburg, PA. “Notice” refers to the date of publication in The Weekly Messenger of the German Reformed Church. Added information by this submitter is in brackets [ ]. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/rowan/obits/b/brandon513nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb