He Died At Red Bank On Saturday

He Had Been Employed by W. A. French & Co. for Sixteen Years and Was a Prominent American Mechanic

William H. Brown of White street died on Saturday night of gastritis, aged forty years. He had been sick four months. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at one o'clock at the first Methodist church. Rev. J. B. Haines, pastor of the church, had charge of the service and he was assisted by Rev. J. K. Manning of Trenton, a former pastor of the Red Bank Baptist church. The body was taken to Mechanicsville, near Freehold, for burial

Mr. Brown was born at Newtown, Pennsylvania. When he was a small boy his parents moved to Keyport. When a young man he worked as clerk in a grocery store at Keyport and later he acted as clerk in a general store at Middletown for five years. When he was twenty years old he married Miss Emeline A. Walling, daughter of Theodore Walling of Mechanicsville. For a year after their marriage he and his wife lived at Elizabeth, where Mr. Brown was employed in the Singer sewing machine factory. From Elizabeth they moved to Red Bank and for the past sixteen years Mr. Brown had been employed by W. A. French & Co. He was a member of the American Mechanics and the Heptasophs lodges. A wife and two children survive him. The children are Archie and Lillie Brown, both of whom live at home.

Mr. Brown was insured for $2,000 in the Heptasophs lodge and for $500 in the American Mechanics lodge. He is the second member of the Heptasophs lodge to die, the first death being that of Frank Woolley of Red Bank, who was drowned over a year ago.

(Per the Death notice Mr. Brown was 40 years and 10 months)

Source: Red Bank Register, Wednesday, Sep 25, 1901

Some additional excellent resources for your research are:

• New Jersey Census, 1772-1890 - Ancestry.com

• Calendar of New Jersey Wills, 1670-1760 - Ancestry.com

• Interment.net - NJ ~ New Jersey Cemetery Transcriptions on the net.

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