TITLE:  Jackson DeWitt Brown

SOURCE:  The Keowee Courier

SUBMITTED BY:  Susan Brock-Booker

FORMATTED BY:  Kim Grissom, Jun 2003

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BROWN, Jackson DeWitt 
(1897-1947) Keowee Courier July 25, 1947 Man Dies Of Heart Attack 
Trying To Recover Purse An apparent good turn for a passerby on his 
50th birthday brought tragedy to a resident of Wolf Stake community 
and heartbreak to his family Monday in Walhalla. The man was Jackson 
DeWitt Brown who died instantly of a heart attack on Main Street while 
attempting to aid a Westminster woman recover her billfold which she 
had unknowingly dropped from her pocketbook only several minutes 
before. Mr. Brown and his wife were sitting in their automobile in 
front of a Walhalla jewelry store when they noticed Mrs. John Weldon 
drop a billfold from her pocketbook as she prepared to enter the store.
A young boy saw the billfold, which contained $25 and valuable papers,
on the sidewalk and thinking two negro girls who were passing at the 
monent had dropped it, returned it to them and they continued westward 
up the street. Seeing this, Mr. Brown entered the store and told Mrs. 
Weldon what had occurred. The Westminster woman, finding that her 
billfold actually was missing, started in pursuit of the two girls in 
company of Mr. and Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Brown, remembering her husband's 
heart condition and that he had been warned by physicians not to exert 
himself, suggested he go back to the car while she and the Westminster 
woman went to recover the billfold. This he did, but later followed 
them to assist. The two women halted the girls several blocks further 
up the street and recovered the billfold. The girls told them they 
were taking it to the courthouse to turn it in to officials there. Mrs.
Brown said she turned around just in time to see her husband, then 
about one-half a block away, suddenly stagger and fall. Rushing to his 
side, they tried to revive the Wolf Stake man. Artificial respiration 
was tried immediately, but to no avail. Mr. Brown was said to have 
been under a doctor's care for the past year-and-a-half, and had been 
warned not to exert himself. The excitement and activity involved in 
aiding a fellow-human proved too much for his heart condition. 
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Flora Vaughn Brown; one daughter, Miss 
Joyce Elaine Brown; three sisters, Mrs. Bessie B. Wyatt, Wolf Stake; 
Miss Almedia Brown, Greenville; and Mrs. Claude Tarrant, Seneca; and 
two brothers, P. Ryan Brown, Seneca and Carl A. Brown, Youngstown, O. 
Funeral services will be at Wolf Stake Baptist church Thursday at 3 p. m., 
conducted by Rev. Ernest Sorrells, assisted by Rev. Veldee Elliott
. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Contributed by: Susan 
Brock-Booker, sbrockbooker@aol.com 



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