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Easton Express, Friday, January 3, 1936, Page 1
Robert F. Brown, Well-Known Market Gardener, Dies of Injuries
Forks Township Man was Hurt in Monroe County Auto Crash
Robert Franklin Brown, 49, a market gardener, of 28 South Second Street,
this city, who was injured in a collision of automobiles at Tannersville,
Monroe County, on Sunday, December 22, died last evening at 9:45 in
the General Hospital Stroudsburg. Twelve ribs were fractured and his
lung was punctured.
Mr. Brown was a passenger in a car driven by John G. Lane of Seipsville,
which was proceeding north on the Lakawanna Trail when it was struck
by a machine driven by Frank Walter of Tannersville. According to the
statement of a State highway patrolman, Walter cut in front of the
Lane car to go into a driveway. Lane in an effort to avoid a Collison,
pulled his car off the highway, hit the Walter car a glancing blow
and then crashed into a tree. The Walter car suffered only slight damages
but the Lane car was badly wrecked by it's impact with the tree. Brown
was the only one who was injured.
Mr. Brown was born in Forks township, this county on September 21,
1886 and was a son of the late Charles and Martha Sandt Brown. He was
graduated from Lafayette College in 1910 and for the past 20 years
had been engaged in business as a market gardener in Easton and also
maintained a stand at the Circle Market.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Edna Vivian Brown and by two sisters,
Mrs. Victor Schleicher and Mrs. Aaron Lazarus, of Forks Township. He
was a member of the Lutheran Congregation of Forks Church and of Vanderveer
Lodge, No. 1005, I. O. O. F., and the Jacksonian Democratic Association
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