Mary Josephine Doyle

GEDCOM Note

Weekly Press, March 4, 1909 ST. JOSEPH DAILY/WEEKLY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAR 4, 1909

SHOCK OF HIS MURDER KILLS THE MOTHER Port Huron, Mich., March 4 - Mrs. Josephine Browning, the aged mother of Gideon Browning, the victim of the famous Rattle Run Methodist church murder, when Rev. John H. Carmichael killed Browning, dismembered his body and cremated it in the church stove, died at her home in that village yesterday. Mrs. Browning had steadily declined since the horror and shock of her son's murder by the crazed minister in the lonely little country church.