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Brown, William Hickman
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| LAST NAME: Brown
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FIRST NAME: William
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MIDDLE NAME: Hickman
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NICKNAME: Billy
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| BORN: 26 May 1872
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DIED: 8 Dec 1960
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BURIED: 12 Dec 1960 (William C. Brown Cemetery)
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| BIRTH PLACE: Dallas, Polk Co, Oregon
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| DEATH PLACE: Dallas, Polk Co., Oregon
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MARRIAGE - W.H. Brown & Gertrude Paul md 23 Nov 1896, Polk Co, Oregon
1930 OR CENSUS - William H. Brown, age 57, occupation laborer, b. Oregon, is enumerated with wife Gertrude, age 51, b. Oregon, along with Betta H., age 16, b. Oregon, John G., age 13, b. Oregon, and Reva R., age 8, b. Oregon.
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DEATH CERTIFICATE:
OSBH DC (Polk County 1960) #16519 - William Hickman Brown, male, farmer, widowed, b 26 May 1872 in Dallas, Oregon, d. 8 Dec 1960 in Dallas, Oregon (Dallas Nursing Home) at the age of 88 years, name of father John G. Brown, maiden name of mother Evelyn Rachel Whitney, interment Brown Cemetery, undertaker Bollman Funeral Home, informant John G. Brown, son.
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OBITUARY:
William Hickman (Uncle Billy) Brown, 88, died last Thursday at the Dallas Rest Home where he had been a patient for about a year and a half. Except for a few months in Portland he had spent his entire life in Dallas.
Mr. Brown was born in Dallas May 26, 1872, son of John G. and Evelyn Rachel Whitney Brown. He was a grandson of W.C. Brown, colorful early day merchant of Cynthian and Dallas. He married Jennie G. Paul at Dallas Nov 26, 1893. She died here April 14, 1959.
Mr. Brown had many reminiscences of early day Dallas and its residents. His parents’ home had been on the highway in North Dallas, across from the Union Oil Co plant. He was a member of the Baptist church. Surviving are seven children, five daughters and two sons, Mrs. Leone Bouyear, Portland; Paul W. Brown, Salem; Mrs. Ivan C. Miller, Kelso, Wash; Mrs. Sara F. Holt, Mrs. Retta Allister and Mrs. Harrison Lockling, all Salem, and John G. Brown, Ruth, Calif. There are 19 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren.
Services were Monday at 2 o’clock at Bollman Funeral Chapel. Burial was in the Brown family cemetery on Polk Station road.
Itemizer Observer, Thursday, December 15, 1960, II:3:6-7
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INSCRIPTION:
Brown
William H.
1872 Father 1960
[shares marker with Jennie G.]
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SOURCES:
Branigar Survey
Saucy Survey & Photographs
Polk Co, Oregon, Marriage Records
OSBH DC (Polk County 1960) #16519
1930 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Salt Creek, ED 15, sheet 2A)
IO 15 Dec 1960, II:3:6-7
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