Sept. 10, 1936 Herald
Mrs. Eliza T. Brown Buried
Services Held At St. Paul's Church
Thursday Morning Largely
Attended
Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza Brown, pioneer resident of Stearns County who passed away in this city on August 30th, were held in St. Paul's Catholic Church Thursday, September 3, and the thronged church together with the hundreds of people who viewed the remains at her home attested to the love and esteem in which the lady was held.
A Solemn Requiem High Mass was celebrated. Rt. Rev. Monsignor August Plachta, Rector Mayer, of Our Lady of Angels Catholic Church was Deacon of the Mass and Reverend Vincent Fettgather, of Brooten, Minn. was Subdeacon of the Mass. the funeral sermon was preached by Rt. Rev. Monsignor Plachta.
The three priests accompanied the remains to Calvary Cemetery where the Ritual for the Dead was recited.
Mrs. Eliza T. Brown was born near Ottawa, Canada, March 21st, 1856. Her father was John Rooney. Her mother's maiden name was Eleanor Tracy. More than 70 years ago, she came with her parents to what is now the Padua district in this county. Here later the young lady was married to John A. Brown and with him built up the farm known today as the Old Brown Farm. On this farm their ten children were born.
Besides the ten children the deceased is survived by one sister, Mrs. Catherine McKenna, Seattle,Wa., and by thirty-one grand children and seven great grand children.
The active pall bearers were Mr. Thomas Kinsella and the following nephews of the deceased: George and Frank Brown, William Riley, Joseph Egan and Frank Hoffman.
Honorary pall bearers were Dr. J.A.Dubois, J.F. Cooper, O.W. Winslow, William M. P?, Henry Borgmann all of Sauk Centre and Mr. Charles Riley, Sedan. Minnesota --- Contributed by: Timothy Ahles
Obituary, originally published 4 Sep 1936, Sauk Centre Herald
Mrs. Eliza Brown
On Sunday, August 30th, Mrs. Eliza Brown, for 74 years a resident of this community, passed away at her home in this city. In her passing this community lost one of it's oldest pioneers and at the same time one of its most interesting and most beloved ladies.
Born in the Gatineau River district in Ontario, Canada in 1854, she saw as a little girl, her father Patrick Rooney, a lumber contractor, clear the timber for their home on the Gatineau River on what is today part of the site of the city of Ottawa. She witnessed the logging on that famous river in the days when a man who could ride a log on the Gatineau was a riverman indeed.
In 1862 when Eliza Brown was 8 years of age her father and mother ( nee Eleanor Tracy ) migrated to Minnesota by ox team, taking up a homestead in the Town of Raymond, this county. The Catholic church in Padua today is situated on part of this original homestead and she herself planted some of the trees that now adorn the churchyard. The old Red River Trail passed their home and here the young lady for years saw the ox teams, freight laden plod their weary way towards the reaches of the Red River Valley and the Dakotas.
On September 10th, 1872, she was married to John A. Brown, a young man who had seen service on the Mississippi River packets transporting supplies for the Union soldiers during the civil war. On this work he was a fellow laborer and a friend of the man who was later to become the greatest railway man of the northwest, James J. Hill.
The young couple settled on the farm that is today known as the Old Brown Farm, four miles south of Padua. On this farm ten children were born to them, all of whom have grown to maturity and all of whom survive except John A. Jr., whose sudden death in July of last year shocked this city.
Those left to mourn her loss are four sons, William A. and Henry H., Sauk Centre; George F., of Forest Grove, Montana; Thomas A., of Billings, Montana and five daughters, Mrs. R. B. Kinsella, Mrs. Walter E. Benson, Mrs. R. J. Malloy and Miss Emily Brown, all of Sauk Centre, Mrs. T. W. Hughes, Spokane, Washington and one sister, Ms. Catherine McKenna, of Seattle, Washington.
Solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated at St. Paul's Catholic church this morning and the burial took place in the family plat in Calvary Cemetery. Details will appear in next week's issue of the Herald.
Truly does this community mourn the loss of this estimable lady. Her life as a early pioneer might truthfully stand out as a beacon light to people of successive generations, to those who know only the trials of their own times. Her life was a life of fortitude and courage. It was her indomitable pioneer spirit, the spirit of the ox-team and covered wagon days, that prompted her to carry on when in 1893 her husband died, leaving her with ten...
Contributor: Randall Rooney - [email protected]
Mrs. Eliza T. Brown Buried
Services Held At St. Paul's Church
Thursday Morning Largely
Attended
Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza Brown, pioneer resident of Stearns County who passed away in this city on August 30th, were held in St. Paul's Catholic Church Thursday, September 3, and the thronged church together with the hundreds of people who viewed the remains at her home attested to the love and esteem in which the lady was held.
A Solemn Requiem High Mass was celebrated. Rt. Rev. Monsignor August Plachta, Rector Mayer, of Our Lady of Angels Catholic Church was Deacon of the Mass and Reverend Vincent Fettgather, of Brooten, Minn. was Subdeacon of the Mass. the funeral sermon was preached by Rt. Rev. Monsignor Plachta.
The three priests accompanied the remains to Calvary Cemetery where the Ritual for the Dead was recited.
Mrs. Eliza T. Brown was born near Ottawa, Canada, March 21st, 1856. Her father was John Rooney. Her mother's maiden name was Eleanor Tracy. More than 70 years ago, she came with her parents to what is now the Padua district in this county. Here later the young lady was married to John A. Brown and with him built up the farm known today as the Old Brown Farm. On this farm their ten children were born.
Besides the ten children the deceased is survived by one sister, Mrs. Catherine McKenna, Seattle,Wa., and by thirty-one grand children and seven great grand children.
The active pall bearers were Mr. Thomas Kinsella and the following nephews of the deceased: George and Frank Brown, William Riley, Joseph Egan and Frank Hoffman.
Honorary pall bearers were Dr. J.A.Dubois, J.F. Cooper, O.W. Winslow, William M. P?, Henry Borgmann all of Sauk Centre and Mr. Charles Riley, Sedan. Minnesota --- Contributed by: Timothy Ahles
Obituary, originally published 4 Sep 1936, Sauk Centre Herald
Mrs. Eliza Brown
On Sunday, August 30th, Mrs. Eliza Brown, for 74 years a resident of this community, passed away at her home in this city. In her passing this community lost one of it's oldest pioneers and at the same time one of its most interesting and most beloved ladies.
Born in the Gatineau River district in Ontario, Canada in 1854, she saw as a little girl, her father Patrick Rooney, a lumber contractor, clear the timber for their home on the Gatineau River on what is today part of the site of the city of Ottawa. She witnessed the logging on that famous river in the days when a man who could ride a log on the Gatineau was a riverman indeed.
In 1862 when Eliza Brown was 8 years of age her father and mother ( nee Eleanor Tracy ) migrated to Minnesota by ox team, taking up a homestead in the Town of Raymond, this county. The Catholic church in Padua today is situated on part of this original homestead and she herself planted some of the trees that now adorn the churchyard. The old Red River Trail passed their home and here the young lady for years saw the ox teams, freight laden plod their weary way towards the reaches of the Red River Valley and the Dakotas.
On September 10th, 1872, she was married to John A. Brown, a young man who had seen service on the Mississippi River packets transporting supplies for the Union soldiers during the civil war. On this work he was a fellow laborer and a friend of the man who was later to become the greatest railway man of the northwest, James J. Hill.
The young couple settled on the farm that is today known as the Old Brown Farm, four miles south of Padua. On this farm ten children were born to them, all of whom have grown to maturity and all of whom survive except John A. Jr., whose sudden death in July of last year shocked this city.
Those left to mourn her loss are four sons, William A. and Henry H., Sauk Centre; George F., of Forest Grove, Montana; Thomas A., of Billings, Montana and five daughters, Mrs. R. B. Kinsella, Mrs. Walter E. Benson, Mrs. R. J. Malloy and Miss Emily Brown, all of Sauk Centre, Mrs. T. W. Hughes, Spokane, Washington and one sister, Ms. Catherine McKenna, of Seattle, Washington.
Solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated at St. Paul's Catholic church this morning and the burial took place in the family plat in Calvary Cemetery. Details will appear in next week's issue of the Herald.
Truly does this community mourn the loss of this estimable lady. Her life as a early pioneer might truthfully stand out as a beacon light to people of successive generations, to those who know only the trials of their own times. Her life was a life of fortitude and courage. It was her indomitable pioneer spirit, the spirit of the ox-team and covered wagon days, that prompted her to carry on when in 1893 her husband died, leaving her with ten...
Contributor: Randall Rooney - [email protected]
Sept. 10, 1936 Herald
Mrs. Eliza T. Brown Buried
Services Held At St. Paul's Church
Thursday Morning Largely
Attended
Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza Brown, pioneer resident of Stearns County who passed away in this city on August 30th, were held in St. Paul's Catholic Church Thursday, September 3, and the thronged church together with the hundreds of people who viewed the remains at her home attested to the love and esteem in which the lady was held.
A Solemn Requiem High Mass was celebrated. Rt. Rev. Monsignor August Plachta, Rector Mayer, of Our Lady of Angels Catholic Church was Deacon of the Mass and Reverend Vincent Fettgather, of Brooten, Minn. was Subdeacon of the Mass. the funeral sermon was preached by Rt. Rev. Monsignor Plachta.
The three priests accompanied the remains to Calvary Cemetery where the Ritual for the Dead was recited.
Mrs. Eliza T. Brown was born near Ottawa, Canada, March 21st, 1856. Her father was John Rooney. Her mother's maiden name was Eleanor Tracy. More than 70 years ago, she came with her parents to what is now the Padua district in this county. Here later the young lady was married to John A. Brown and with him built up the farm known today as the Old Brown Farm. On this farm their ten children were born.
Besides the ten children the deceased is survived by one sister, Mrs. Catherine McKenna, Seattle,Wa., and by thirty-one grand children and seven great grand children.
The active pall bearers were Mr. Thomas Kinsella and the following nephews of the deceased: George and Frank Brown, William Riley, Joseph Egan and Frank Hoffman.
Honorary pall bearers were Dr. J.A.Dubois, J.F. Cooper, O.W. Winslow, William M. P?, Henry Borgmann all of Sauk Centre and Mr. Charles Riley, Sedan. Minnesota --- Contributed by: Timothy Ahles
Obituary, originally published 4 Sep 1936, Sauk Centre Herald
Mrs. Eliza Brown
On Sunday, August 30th, Mrs. Eliza Brown, for 74 years a resident of this community, passed away at her home in this city. In her passing this community lost one of it's oldest pioneers and at the same time one of its most interesting and most beloved ladies.
Born in the Gatineau River district in Ontario, Canada in 1854, she saw as a little girl, her father Patrick Rooney, a lumber contractor, clear the timber for their home on the Gatineau River on what is today part of the site of the city of Ottawa. She witnessed the logging on that famous river in the days when a man who could ride a log on the Gatineau was a riverman indeed.
In 1862 when Eliza Brown was 8 years of age her father and mother ( nee Eleanor Tracy ) migrated to Minnesota by ox team, taking up a homestead in the Town of Raymond, this county. The Catholic church in Padua today is situated on part of this original homestead and she herself planted some of the trees that now adorn the churchyard. The old Red River Trail passed their home and here the young lady for years saw the ox teams, freight laden plod their weary way towards the reaches of the Red River Valley and the Dakotas.
On September 10th, 1872, she was married to John A. Brown, a young man who had seen service on the Mississippi River packets transporting supplies for the Union soldiers during the civil war. On this work he was a fellow laborer and a friend of the man who was later to become the greatest railway man of the northwest, James J. Hill.
The young couple settled on the farm that is today known as the Old Brown Farm, four miles south of Padua. On this farm ten children were born to them, all of whom have grown to maturity and all of whom survive except John A. Jr., whose sudden death in July of last year shocked this city.
Those left to mourn her loss are four sons, William A. and Henry H., Sauk Centre; George F., of Forest Grove, Montana; Thomas A., of Billings, Montana and five daughters, Mrs. R. B. Kinsella, Mrs. Walter E. Benson, Mrs. R. J. Malloy and Miss Emily Brown, all of Sauk Centre, Mrs. T. W. Hughes, Spokane, Washington and one sister, Ms. Catherine McKenna, of Seattle, Washington.
Solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated at St. Paul's Catholic church this morning and the burial took place in the family plat in Calvary Cemetery. Details will appear in next week's issue of the Herald.
Truly does this community mourn the loss of this estimable lady. Her life as a early pioneer might truthfully stand out as a beacon light to people of successive generations, to those who know only the trials of their own times. Her life was a life of fortitude and courage. It was her indomitable pioneer spirit, the spirit of the ox-team and covered wagon days, that prompted her to carry on when in 1893 her husband died, leaving her with ten...
Contributor: Randall Rooney - [email protected]
Mrs. Eliza T. Brown Buried
Services Held At St. Paul's Church
Thursday Morning Largely
Attended
Funeral services for Mrs. Eliza Brown, pioneer resident of Stearns County who passed away in this city on August 30th, were held in St. Paul's Catholic Church Thursday, September 3, and the thronged church together with the hundreds of people who viewed the remains at her home attested to the love and esteem in which the lady was held.
A Solemn Requiem High Mass was celebrated. Rt. Rev. Monsignor August Plachta, Rector Mayer, of Our Lady of Angels Catholic Church was Deacon of the Mass and Reverend Vincent Fettgather, of Brooten, Minn. was Subdeacon of the Mass. the funeral sermon was preached by Rt. Rev. Monsignor Plachta.
The three priests accompanied the remains to Calvary Cemetery where the Ritual for the Dead was recited.
Mrs. Eliza T. Brown was born near Ottawa, Canada, March 21st, 1856. Her father was John Rooney. Her mother's maiden name was Eleanor Tracy. More than 70 years ago, she came with her parents to what is now the Padua district in this county. Here later the young lady was married to John A. Brown and with him built up the farm known today as the Old Brown Farm. On this farm their ten children were born.
Besides the ten children the deceased is survived by one sister, Mrs. Catherine McKenna, Seattle,Wa., and by thirty-one grand children and seven great grand children.
The active pall bearers were Mr. Thomas Kinsella and the following nephews of the deceased: George and Frank Brown, William Riley, Joseph Egan and Frank Hoffman.
Honorary pall bearers were Dr. J.A.Dubois, J.F. Cooper, O.W. Winslow, William M. P?, Henry Borgmann all of Sauk Centre and Mr. Charles Riley, Sedan. Minnesota --- Contributed by: Timothy Ahles
Obituary, originally published 4 Sep 1936, Sauk Centre Herald
Mrs. Eliza Brown
On Sunday, August 30th, Mrs. Eliza Brown, for 74 years a resident of this community, passed away at her home in this city. In her passing this community lost one of it's oldest pioneers and at the same time one of its most interesting and most beloved ladies.
Born in the Gatineau River district in Ontario, Canada in 1854, she saw as a little girl, her father Patrick Rooney, a lumber contractor, clear the timber for their home on the Gatineau River on what is today part of the site of the city of Ottawa. She witnessed the logging on that famous river in the days when a man who could ride a log on the Gatineau was a riverman indeed.
In 1862 when Eliza Brown was 8 years of age her father and mother ( nee Eleanor Tracy ) migrated to Minnesota by ox team, taking up a homestead in the Town of Raymond, this county. The Catholic church in Padua today is situated on part of this original homestead and she herself planted some of the trees that now adorn the churchyard. The old Red River Trail passed their home and here the young lady for years saw the ox teams, freight laden plod their weary way towards the reaches of the Red River Valley and the Dakotas.
On September 10th, 1872, she was married to John A. Brown, a young man who had seen service on the Mississippi River packets transporting supplies for the Union soldiers during the civil war. On this work he was a fellow laborer and a friend of the man who was later to become the greatest railway man of the northwest, James J. Hill.
The young couple settled on the farm that is today known as the Old Brown Farm, four miles south of Padua. On this farm ten children were born to them, all of whom have grown to maturity and all of whom survive except John A. Jr., whose sudden death in July of last year shocked this city.
Those left to mourn her loss are four sons, William A. and Henry H., Sauk Centre; George F., of Forest Grove, Montana; Thomas A., of Billings, Montana and five daughters, Mrs. R. B. Kinsella, Mrs. Walter E. Benson, Mrs. R. J. Malloy and Miss Emily Brown, all of Sauk Centre, Mrs. T. W. Hughes, Spokane, Washington and one sister, Ms. Catherine McKenna, of Seattle, Washington.
Solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated at St. Paul's Catholic church this morning and the burial took place in the family plat in Calvary Cemetery. Details will appear in next week's issue of the Herald.
Truly does this community mourn the loss of this estimable lady. Her life as a early pioneer might truthfully stand out as a beacon light to people of successive generations, to those who know only the trials of their own times. Her life was a life of fortitude and courage. It was her indomitable pioneer spirit, the spirit of the ox-team and covered wagon days, that prompted her to carry on when in 1893 her husband died, leaving her with ten...
Contributor: Randall Rooney - [email protected]
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