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Death of Sadie Brown (1972)

Also Sadie McGahn Brown obituary

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

TypeEvent
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era

Summary

Sadie Brown was killed by a car while crossing a street in Hart, Michigan, on October 28, 1972. The notice says she had lived on Beaver Island in summers since 1958 and attended the Beaver Island Christian Church while there.

Evidence and limits

The newspaper reports burial at Pellston but does not provide a cemetery name, accident investigation, or civil death record.

See also

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, October–November 1972, “Mrs. Sadie Brown.”
    Reports that Brown was struck and killed while crossing a street in Hart on October 28, gives her former name as Sadie McGahn, and says she lived on Beaver Island in summers after 1958; burial was at Pellston.