Brown, William Hickman LAST: Brown FIRST: William MID: Hickman GENDER: M MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE:  BORN: 26 May 1872 DIED: 8 Dec 1960 BURIED: 12 Dec 1960 (William C. Brown Cemetery) OCCUPATION:   BIRTH PLACE:  Dallas, Polk Co, Oregon DEATH PLACE: Dallas, Polk Co., Oregon NOTES:  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. 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 INSCRIPTION:  Brown William H. 1872 Father 1960 [shares marker with Jennie G.] 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 CONTACTS:  ROW:    IMAGES: