Patterson Cemetery District 

Obits listing for 1912

Submitted by Gale Stroud 18 Aug 2007

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Brown George D 120418 p1
Whiskey Causes Another Death;  The body of George D. Brown of  Grayson, who is supposed to have either fallen or
jumped out of a boat into the San Joaquin river about a week ago, was found three miles below Grayson Tuesday
morning of last week. says the Modesto Herald. The funeral will be held today at the chapel of Bowker & Wood,
interment being made in the family plot in the Citizens' cemetery.  Brown and a companion named Boyle were on a
fishing trip below Grayson at the time of the drowning. Both men are said to have been intoxicated and according to
Doyle the accident happened while he was lying in the bottom of the boat asleep. When he awoke Brown and one of the
oars were missing and the boat was drifting. As soon as Doyle could get to land he notified the neighbors, who started a
search for the body, which was continued intermittently until the corpse was found Tuesday.  The dead man was a son of
ex-Supervisor Brown, formerly a prominent resident of the Grayson section, who died about two years ago. A brother of
the dead man resides at Grayson, his step-mother at Stockton and he has several brothers and sisters living in Oregon.
The family formerly owned considerable land on the West Side.