James Edward Brooks (1876 - 1909)

Fairs-15, my 1st cousin 1x removed, who died January 2, 2021, told me in a phone conversation that he died running the Boston Marathon. Her article on her mother, Eleanor Brooks, says that he died as a result of getting pneumonia during a marathon, but she isn't specific. The 1909 Boston Marathon was notorious for being 97 degrees, but it was also held on April 19, so too late if the death date of April 2 is correct, and if it was caught the previous year, then he had it for nearly a year before he died. I tried to find other marathons held around that time. The 1909 New York City Marathon was held April 3, so that would also require an incorrect death date. lynn_goedert93 submitted some photos of newspaper clippings to Ancestry, but I can't access them as a non-paying member, and when I tried to message her, I got told that there was no existing acvcount with that name.