- Date
- 1972-10-28
- Kind
- Death
- Participants
- Sadie McGahn Brown (deceased)
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communityreligionheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island
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
- 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.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1972-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eleven-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1972-10_Beaver-Beacon
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Death of Sadie Brown, 1972”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/death-of-sadie-brown-1972/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October–November 1972, “Mrs. Sadie Brown.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
Last revised 2026-08-03. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.
BibTeX for “Death of Sadie Brown, 1972”RIS for “Death of Sadie Brown, 1972”