Brown, Leonard



BORN IN: England
DIED: 8/13/1898
AGED: 70
CAUSE OF DEATH: Prostration from heat
DEATH LOCATION: Thermalito, CA

OCCUPATION: Blacksmith

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BURIED IN UNION CEMETERY WITH THE SAME LAST NAME:

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BURIED NEARBY IN PLOT 98:
CURRENT EVENTS:
  • 1831 Reaper (Cyrus McCormick)
  • 1836 Revolver (Samuel Colt)
  • 1845 Texas annexed into U.S.
  • 1846 Mexican-American War
  • 1849 California Gold Rush
  • 1850 California became the 31st State
  • 1860 The Pony Express
  • 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
  • 1861 American Civil War
  • 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
  • 1866 Ku Klux Klan
  • 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
  • 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
  • 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
  • 1876 Baseball's National League
  • 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
  • 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)

OBITUARY ---------------

LEONARD BROWN

Redwood City Democrat

Aug 18, 1898

Leonard Brown an old resident of Mayfield, died at the Odd Fellows Home at Oroville and was buried in Union Cemetery Tuesday, Under the Auspices of Mayfield Lodge in which he was a member. The funeral took place from undertaker Crowe’s parlor. Deceased was the father of Mrs. Edward Beeson. Mr. Brown will be remembered as the old fifer who furnished martial music in this town on many occasions in years past.

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