Our community was startled last Friday evening about 7 o'clock p.m. by the receipt by our townsman J.L. Ackerman, of a telegram announcing the death of Mrs. John Brown caused by a runaway team. The particulars of the sad affair, as we learn them, are as follows: Mrs. Brown was out calling in the afternoon, the last place she stopped being at the residence of Mrs. W.C. Nicholson, sister of Mr. Brown. It was after 5 o'clock in the evening when she left Mrs. Nicholson's intending to go directly to her home which is in the north end of town. When about opposite the Methodist church the pony she was driving became frightened and started on a run down the street running at great speed. She managed to keep him in the road and after he had run about 80 rods seemed to have gotten him under control. At this time she was seen to reel and soon fell forward to the ground, striking upon her forehead, dislocating her neck. It is thought the excitement caused her to faint. She was seemingly dead when she was picked up. She was carried into a house nearby and medical aid summoned but to no purpose; the spirit had take its flight.
Nov. 13, 1888, she was united in marriage to Mr. John Brown who by this sad occurrence is deprived of his life partner.
Born and reared as she was in this community she was known and loved by everybody for her gentleness, modesty and womanly ways, and many hearts are made sad by her untimely death. To the bereaved and sorrow stricken husband, the father and mother, brothers and sisters and the many mourning friends we tender our sympathy and condolence in this the dark hour of affliction and sorrow.
The funeral took place from the family residence in Crown Point at 11 A.M. Monday April 8. A large . . . [line missing] . . . pay their last respects to one they had learned to love and respect. Rev. D. Tillotson, of Lowell, preached the funeral discourse after which the funeral train wended its way to the cemetery near Crown Point where the remains were deposited, there to sleep the quiet sleep of death until the great resurrection morn, when she will again come forth to meet and greet the loved of earth.
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