Ella H. Whitton (1889-1957)

Ella H. Whitton was born on 7 November 1889 in New Jersey. She died on 10 December 1957 in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware from subarachnoid hemorrhage. She is buried in Silverbrook Cemetery & Memorial Park in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware. She married Joseph Brown on 15 April 1910 in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware.

Ella H. Whitton's grave marker

Ella H. Whitton's death certificate

The Morning News, 12 Oct 1957

Funeral services for Mrs. Ella H. Brown, 68, wife of Joseph Brown, 1608 Lancaster Avenue, will be held at 1 p.m. tomorrow at the McCrery Funeral Home, 2700 Washington Street, where friends may call tonight after 7. Interment will be at Silverbrook Cemetery.

   Mrs. Brown died Tuesday night in Wilmington General Hospital after an illness of two weeks. Born in New Jersey, she had lived in Wilmington for 50 years. She was a member of the Jefferson Lodge, Independent Order of Reindeer.

   In addition to her husband, she is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Harold Williams, Wilmington, and Mrs. William Hahn, Easton, Pa.; a son, William T. Brown, New Castle; her mother, Mrs. William Whitton, Pittman, N. J.; two sisters, Mrs. Leonard Hering and Mrs. John Johnson, both of Glassboro, N. J., and two granddaughters, Miss Sandra Jean Hahn, Easton, and Miss Barbara Ann Brown, New Castle.

PARENTS

William Whitton

Harriet R. Hood

SPOUSE

Joseph S. Brown

CHILDREN

Hattie Ellen Brown

Ella May Brown

William Thomas Brown

SOURCES

• 1900 census, Pennsanken, Camden, New Jersey
• 1910 census, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware
• 1920 census, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware
• 1930 census, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware
• 1940 census, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware
• The Morning News (Wilmington, Delaware) 12 October 1957
• Delaware Vital Records 
• Find A Grave