Father: John Christy Brown
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Mother:Martha Boley Stevens
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Birth date and place: October 8, 1840
Bloomington, Indiana
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Birth date and place:June 18, 1849,
Lancaster, Keokuk County, Iowa
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Death date and place: July 12, 1924,
Chester, thayer, Nebraska
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Death date and place:July 20, 1924,
Chester, Thayer, Nebraska
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Marriage date and place: January 3, 1867, Aledo,
Mercer County, Illinois
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Marriage date and place: January 3, 1867,
Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois
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Parents:James Madison Brown, Nancy Christy
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Parents: James W. Stevens, Mary Jane Jackson
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Notes:John C. Brown was in company A 102, Illinois
Volunteers. He became ill on a forced march from Louisvillle, Kentucky
to Frankfort, Kentucky, near the town of Shelbyville. After going through
several applications for a pension, one was finally granted. The
pension amount in the last year of his life was 50 dollars per month.
He was born in Indiana, but while he was a young man his family moved to
Mercer County, Illinois, near the town of Keithsburg. That town is
now under the Mississippi River, I believe. It was from there that
he joined the Union Army. He was discharged at Chicago in 1865.
Martha's family and her grandmother and her brother and family had moved to Illinois from Iowa sometime after 1850.
In 1870 the Brown family is back in Iowa, and in 1874 they
came to Republic County, Kansas and settled in Liberty Township. His
homestead was proved up in 1879. In 1912 he sold his land and moved
into Chester.
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Children:
Adda May
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December 29, 1867
Mercer County, Illinois
May 9, 1892, Kansas
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Lash Shawn
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Seldon O.
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December 18, 1869
Iowa
November 20, 1957
Oskaloosa, Iowa
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Clara F. Parker
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Wyram O.
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August 17, 1872
Iowa?
December 14, 1913
Kansas or Nebraska
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Myrtle Stroud
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Nora O.
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April 19, 1875
Republic County, Kansas
December 6, 1920
Hebron, thayer, Nebraska
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Frank Rieke
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Henry Otis
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February 1, 1877
Republic County, Kansas
May 19, 1961
Oregon
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Flora Casteel
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Clara Orinda
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January 19, 1879
Republic County, Kansas
July 13, 1944,
Belleville, Kansas
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Lon Pressnall
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Mary Orpha
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January 4, 1881
Republic County, Kansas
January 13, 1957
Centralia, Washington
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Marion Earl Croop
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James Ira
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December 1, 1883
Republic County,Kansas
December 4, 1883
Republic County, Kansas
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buried in Regester Cemetery
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Note: Martha seemed to really like middle names that start with O
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