the death of country brown, part two

Some time back I wrote about the case of longtime outfielder and baseball comedian Elias “Country” Brown, whose real name was apparently Elias Bryant, and how he was murdered by his brother-in-law in the course of an argument on Christmas Day, 1937.  I’ve obtained his death certificate, and it confirms that Elias Bryant was the victim of a “homicidal assault” on that date; but it adds virtually no information about him otherwise, aside from a purported age of 37 at the time of death, and the fact that he had worked for the WPA for about a year.  We also learn that he was buried in the Frederick Douglass Cemetery on Staten Island.