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Thomas Clarence "Tommy" Brown

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December 20, 1876 - June 2, 1958

Thomas Brown Rites Friday

DALLAS (Special) - Funeral services for Thomas Clarence Brown, 81, who died Monday in a Dallas hospital, will be at 3 p.m. Friday at Bollman Funeral Chapel. Sydney Gaither will officiate. Burial will be at Brown's Cemetery near Dallas.

Brown, a lifetime resident of Dallas, had been ill for nine days. He was born December 20, 1876, his parents being Mr. and Mrs. John Green Brown, early settlers.

Brown married Lulla Morgan in Dallas in 1899, who died in 1938. He was also preceded in death by their two year old daughter, Addie Evaline in 1900.

Surviving are a brother, W. H. Brown, Portland, and seven nieces and nephews.

Published in The Capital Journal of Salem, Oregon on Wednesday, June 4th, 1958 • Page 26.

OBITUARY:

Thomas Clarence Brown, native born Polk county man and descendant of early pioneers, died Monday at the Dallas hospital. He would have been 82 next September. Tommy had been in failing health for several years but had been on the street downtown only a few days previously. He died only nine hours after being taken to the hospital. He had been at the Evans Nursing Home over a period of years. 

He was born Sept. 20, 1876, son of John G. and Rachel Whitney Brown. His grandfather was William C. Brown, early day merchant of Cynthian and Dallas. He married Lula Vera Morgan in Dallas in 1899. She died here in 1938. Tommy had operated a farm just north of the city on the Coast highway for a number of years, but sold it and retired after his wife's death. Until the last couple of years he had been a familiar figure on the streets.

Tommy is survived by one brother, W.H. Brown, now residing in Portland, seven nieces and nephews. Services will be Friday at 3 pm at the Bollman Funeral chapel with Rev. Sydney Gaither officiating. Burial will be in the Brown family cemetery on Polk Station road.

Published in the Polk County Itemizer Observer on Monmouth, Oregon on Thursday, June 5, 1958.

NOTES:

MARRIAGE - T.C. Brown & Lulu V. Morgan md 15 Aug 1898, Polk Co, Oregon

1910 OR CENSUS - Thomas C. Brown, age 33, occupation farmer, b. Oregon, is enumerated with his wife of 9 years, Lulu V., age 32, mother of 1 child not living, b. Oregon.

DEATH CERTIFICATE:

OSBH DC (Polk County 1959) #7412 - Thomas Clarence Brown, male, farmer, widowed; b. 20 Sept 1876 in Dallas, Oregon, d. 2 Jun 1958 in Dallas, Oregon (1400 Birch) at the age of 81 years, name of  father John Green Brown, maiden name of mother Rachel Eveline Whitney, interment Brown Cemetery, informant William H. Brown, brother.

PHOTOGRAPH - The picture of Thomas Clarence is shown courtesy of David Kromer.

From the PolkCountyCemetery.org website.