L.C. BROWN KILLED

L.C. Brown, living south-east of Arlington and one mile from Dale, was fatally injured when his car overturned Sunday afternoon. The accident occurred while returning from the Arlington chautauqua and death resulted at midnight.

It was at first believed that he was not seriously injured as he was perfectly conscious and walked from the machine into the house. He asked repeatedly whether the other members of the party were hurt and it was not until ten o'clock that he commenced to sink. He was unconscious at the time of death.

Besides the victim the car contained his wife, two sons and a Miss Weinholtz. None of the other occupants were injured other than that they received a severe shaking up.

From the most reliable reports we can obtain it seems that Mr. Brown passed a team which he had sold recently and was craning his neck over the side of the car to see it while his wife held the wheel. The car was getting too much gas and when in shutting it off she caused the car to swerve he attempted to right it without looking back. The wheels cramped and the car overturned.

Mr. Brown was born in Connecticut fifty-six years ago and came to Washington county with his parents when but a small boy. He was a prosperous farmer and enjoyed the friendship of a large circle.

Besides his wife, four sons and two daughters survive him.

#2-Published in Enterprise on 15 August 1913

L.C. BROWN KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT

Report of the death of "Lew" Brown in an automobile accident reached Blair early Monday morning and was a violent shock to his many Blair friends. Only a few weeks previously his neighbor, Barney Jungbluth, met his death in a similar manner and in nearly the same locality. A press dispatch to an Omaha paper describes the accident as follows:

An automobile accident, in which one person lost his life and another was seriously injured, occurred near Dale, five miles southeast of Arlington, Sunday evening about 5 o'clock. Having visited the chautauqua in Arlington during the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Brown, living just south of Dale, and their sons, Dave and Earl, and a Miss Weinholz, started for home in an automobile. When a mile from Dale Mr. Brown lost control of the machine and before the trouble could be righted, the automobile turned over, throwing Mr. Brown out in such a way that he struck on his head, causing injuries that resulted in his death at midnight. Mrs. Brown received two serious cuts in the face, but the other occupants of the car escaped injury.

Mr. Brown was born in Connecticut fifty-six years ago and came to Washington county with his parents when but a boy. He was a prosperous farmer and enjoyed the friendship of a large circle.

Besides his wife, four sons and two daughters survive him.

The is the second fatal automobile accident that has occurred here within a short time, B.H.J. Jungbluth, a resident of the same neighborhood, meeting instant death by the ditching of his automobile about two miles from the scene of the one yesterday.

#3-Published in Tribune on 13 August 1913

L.C. BROWN KILLED

An automobile accident in which one person lost his life and another was seriously injured, occurred near Dale, five miles southeast of Arlington, Sunday evening about 5 o'clock. Having visited the chautauqua in Arlington during the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Brown, living just south of Dale, and their sons, Dave and Earl, and a Miss Weinholz, started for home in an automobile. When a mile from Dale, Mr. Brown lost control of the machine and before the trouble could be righted, the automobile turned over, throwing Mr. Brown out in such a way that he struck on his head, causing injuries that resulted in his death at midnight. Mrs. Brown received two serious cuts in the face, but the other occupants of the car escaped injury.

Mr. Brown was born in Connecticut fifty-six years ago and came to Washington county with his parents when but a boy. He was a prosperous farmer and enjoyed the friendship of a large circle.

Besides his wife, four sons and two daughters survive him.

This is the second fatal automobile accident that has occurred here within a short time, B.H.J. Jungbluth, a resident of the same neighborhood, meeting instant death by the ditching of his automobile about two miles from the scene of the one yesterday. The date of the funeral has not been decided upon.

#4 Thursday, August 14, 1913 Arlington Review-Herald, Arlington, Nebraska

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L.C. BROWN KILLED BY AUTO
While Driving Home From Arlington Chautauqua

Though in midst of life we be
Snares of death surround us.
---Martin Luther

For the second time within a little over a month, we are compelled to chronicle the death of another one of Arlington township's prominent farmers and pioneer citizens, in the person of L. C. Brown, who passed away at midnight of Sunday, August 10, following an automobile accident while returning to his home near Dale, with other members of his family, from the Arlington chautauqua.

When just east of Ernest Wager's farm residence, five miles southeast of Arlington, the party met a man driving a team of horses formerly owned by Mr. Brown. His attention being called to the horses, he turned the steering wheel over to Mrs. Brown, who was sitting in the seat beside him, while he looked at the horses, then some distance behind the auto.

In Mrs. Brown's hands the machine commenced to wabble back and forth on the road. This seemed to alarm Mr. Brown, and taking hold of the wheel it is thought that he turned it too suddenly, and as the machine was going at least 20 miles an hour, it turned completely over, throwing Mr. Brown with sufficient force to fracture the bone at the base of the brain, which was the direct cause of death.

In the auto, in addition to Mr. and Mrs. Brown were their two sons, Dave and Earl, and Miss Weibolz, a sister of Mrs. Wm. Hart and Mrs. H. H. Laaker, of this place. They occupied the back seat and escaped injury.

It was at first thought that Mr. Brown's injuries were not serious, as he was able to walk to the car of Hon. Fred Ramser, who followed the Brown from Arlington, assisted by Mr. Ramser and Herman Jungbluth, who resides close by. An Omaha automobile that happened along soon after the accident, conveyed the others to the Brown home. While on his way home in the Ramser car, Mr. Brown talked with the other occupants of the car, and expressed his keen delight when informed that the other members of the party had escaped serious injury.

Dr. Daves was at once called, but nothing could be done for the injured man. At 8 o'clock he became unconscious, he passing away at midnight.

The funeral was held from the house on Wednesday, conducted by Rev.G. M. Couffer, of Arlington. Interment in the Elk City cemetery, a large concourse of people being present to attest their love for him who had long been their friend and neighbor.

Louis C. Brown was born in Waterbury, Conn., August 7, 1867, being three days over 56 years old when death terminated his years of future usefulness. He came to Nebraska in 1868, with his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Brown, they settling on the farm now owned by F. W. Brown It was here that Louis grew to manhood, and January 17. 1880, he led to the altar Miss Alma Kennicut. To this union ten children were born, seven sons and three daughters, all of whom with the wife, survive him, as follows: Walter, William, Ray, Conrad, Alfred, Dave and Earl Brown, Miss Emma Brown, Mrs. Harry Hammang, of Arlington, and Mrs. Chas. Sharp, of Elk City. A brother, F. W. Brown, and two sisters, Mrs. E Wager, of Arlington, and Mrs. Ella Masters, of California, also survive him. In 1889 he purchased the farm on which he has since resided.

Coming to Washington county when but 11years old, his 45 years residence entitles him to be classed among the real pioneers of his section. Mr. Brown was well known to all the older residents of Washington county, and that he was remembered by these hardy pioneers is indicated by the number of them who called up this office during Sunday evening for particulars of the accident, and the expressions of genuine grief when these anxious friends-many of them of different nationality-were later informed that he was dead.

On death Pope wrote:

The world recedes it disappears;
Heaven opens on my eyes; my ears;
With sounds seraphic rings.
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O grave, where is thy victory!
O death, where is thy sting?

~~~ Obituaries courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

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