Post-mortem of Clyde Burl Brown Jr. [1927-1934]

Photograph

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Greene Connections

Name/Title

Post-mortem of Clyde Burl Brown Jr. [1927-1934]

Entry/Object ID

2006.1.80

Description

Post-mortem photograph of Clyde Burl Brown Jr. [1927-1934] - son of Clyde Burl Brown Sr. and Sarah Watson. Clyde was accidentally shot by a neighbor, Fred Fordyce, who was helping Clyde's father to control groundhogs around the Brown home. Original, candid.

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

Brown, Clyde Burl (Jr.) [1927-1934]

Collection

Katherine Jane (Throckmorton) Toothman Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1934

Lexicon

Search Terms

Brown family, Funerals, Post-mortem photography, Watson family

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

TOOK_AN002_0019

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Watson-Anderson Series - Katherine Jane (Throckmorton) Toothman Collection

Notes

The Watson-Anderson Series photographs were most likely passed from Robert Watson [1847-1942] and his wife, Catharine Anderson [1848-1933] to their daughter Ella May (Watson) Throckmorton [1893-1988] and her husband, Robert Lawrence Throckmorton, Sr. [1889-1964] to their daughter, Katherine Jane (Throckmorton) Toothman who owned and shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2006. Source Citation: Post-mortem photograph of Clyde Burl Brown Jr. [1927-1934]; item no. TOOK_AN002_0019, Katherine Jane (Throckmorton) Toothman Collection; Greene Connections Archives Project (GreeneConnections.com).