Walter Elby Brownlow (1899-1952) - Find a Grave Memorial

Walter Elby Brownlow

Birth

18 Sep 1899

Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, USA

Death

13 Jun 1952 (aged 52)

Nevada, Vernon County, Missouri, USA

Burial

Nevada State Hospital #03 Cemetery

Nevada, Vernon County, Missouri, USA Add to Map

Plot

SEC. 3 ROWS 15 BY

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WALTER BROWNLOW son of LeRoy B. Brownlow and Rebecca Ellen Cook. He was a Shoe Cobbler. He was in the State Hospital-Nevada, MO for 16+ yrs. He died of Pulmonary Tuberculosis. He had been married 2 times and had 3 children.

Inscription

Correction by Dee:
All burials in this cemetery are marked. They are flat stones with a name inscription on them.
The stones have been covered over by years of mowing the grass, and are quite logically laid out and evenly spaced. It takes a little digging but the stones are easily found. There is also a map with the names and burial locations on the campus of what used to be Insane Asylumn #3. It is a large framed map. The gentleman I spoke with was a caretaker of the grounds when it was still the asylum. He told me that there were stones for every person buried in that cemetery up to and including the day they closed the asylum. He was extremely proud of that fact as it's unusal for an insane asylum to do it, usually they were buried in common graves.