Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-23
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''''''N Wv hNuot " SiNhI uNui 90 coi Y
of chore boy and partly from idleness
one bright morning we held burial
service at the house and laid the body
to rest In u grave south of the old
Brown homestead in the edge of the or
chard, but really in the door yard. |
don't know why this place was used.
| could go to it now with ease. We
all felt sorry at this ending, but a
more harrassing experience for his
poor mother was yet in reserve.
Some time in August / think two
| strangers came into the Yellow Creek
district late in the afternoon and
| stopped for the night with Mr.. Cole
who lived south of the farm now
known AS the old Holvey farm. They
! Wfr fun OF questions about
| this one and that one, but made little
progress in pumping Cole. They finally
came out and clearly asked for Dan
| Brown. They were told OF his death
ana given full particulars of his re-
| turn, sickness, death and burial. They
were two officers from New Orleans
VINO sought to arrest Dan for some
| Gffcnsc or other if they found him
living; or if to satisfy themselves of
the identity of the body. They were
extremely suspicious and feared be-
ing ambushed by the Browns. The
them that they declined to believe it.
They looked upon ii as Il part of
plan to divert them from the trail OF
tire living Dan, who hoped thereby to
escape them. They feared for their
lives and under ordinary circum-
stances they might well have done so.
They wanted to talk with some one
who had helped to bury the remains.
So | WAS sent for to give my story.
| was asked all manner of questions
after the manner of modern detectives
and to which gave but little true in
formation beyond saying that Dan
was dead and buried The nexpmorn-
ing they came TO my father and we
went over the ground again. My
father wanted the officers to 90 down
and talk with the Browns, but they
refused. He then went over and talked
with Mrs. Brown and finally got her
consent to dig open the grave that the
body might be Identified by the stran-
gers, After hearing from Mrs. Brown
my memory became very much stron-
ger than the night before. | told them
more of the details of the dead mans
return and sickness.
The end of it all was we all went
down to the orchard, Mr.. Cole, the two
New Orleans men, my father and my
self 1t was a very sad crrand. The
New orleans men vet feared ambush
mcnt and kept close to my father and
Cole, but after some talk became sat
isted of no danger Old Mrs, Brown
wcpt bitterly at the thought of cX-
huming her son but insisted that II
be done If any doubt existed of his
death. After some delay two laborers,
| think Jim IL was one, were called
up from the bottoms and began to re-
cXcavate the earth. We raised the
coffin out of the pit; placed in on the
grass under pear tree and raised
the lid. II was II solemn moment one
| stranger said: Mrs. Brown, Is that
your son Dan?' She looked and answer.
ed, EYES, The other stranger said
IVES, that is the man. l know him.
They then each made such excuses
for the necessity that had forced them
to such means of identification as they
could, and after laying the body back
In the grave quietly departed. We
filled up the grave as kindly as we
could.