Frank Austin

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Frank Austin

Date of Birth: 1855

Born In: Missouri

Age: 66

Occupation: Laborer

Marital Status: Divorced

Died: 15 Feb 1921

Cause of Death: Mitral insufficiency of the heart

Death Location: J. N. Poole Residence

Burial Plot: 26

FindaGrave ID: 243747741

Obituary

FRANK AUSTIN, VICTIM OF HEART TROUBLE.
Frank Austin, a well known colored resident of Redwood City for over thirty years, died suddenly last Monday morning while at work in the warehouse of the John W. Poole Drayage Company on Washington street. Death was due to heart trouble. according to Dr. J. L Ross who performed an autopsy on the body at the parlors of the James Crowe Company later in the day.
Austin had been working for the Poole Draying Company for a number of years. He was industrious and quiet and trustworthy and highly thought of by his employer.
He was born in the Southern States, his father and mother being slaves. The deceased delighted in telling of his experience in the days before the War, of what a fine master he had and how kind he was to all his slaves.
Austin was 69 years of age. He leave a wife, from who he is separted, and one son, Frank Austin, Jr., whos home is in Marysville

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