Occupation: farmer.
After the death of their mother, he and his sister Eliza were taken to Indiana (1866c) by their uncle, James Holladay, Jr., and raised in that family. We have lost track of William for a time during the period when he was a young man -- at which time the 1870 census shows that the Holladay family (and Eliza Brown, William's sister) resided in Shawnee Twp., Fountain Co., Indiana.
By 1877 (Eliza's marriage date), she was living in East Lynn, Vermilion Co., Illinois -- less than two miles from Fountain Creek Twp., Iroquois Co., Illinois where William was later married in 1886. Both of these places in Illinois are about thirty miles northwest of the location in Indiana where the Holladay family had earlier lived. Moreover, on the 1880 census for Butler Township, Vermilion Co., Illinois, near East Lynn, there appears William Brown, farmhand with the William Arnold family. This William Brown and both of his parents were born in New Jersey. Also, after his marriage in 1886 to Maggie Evans (found on the 1880 census, Fountain Creek Twp., Iroquois Co., IL) the Brown family lived until 1908 in Cissna Park, Iroquois
Co., Illinois -- less than ten miles further to the northwest of East Lynn.All of this points to the likelihood that William had remained in that part of Indiana and Illinois. Further evidence of that is provided by the presence in a Holladay family picture album of tintypes of a young man identified as "Will Brown, Lyde Frye's brother".
William Nelson Brown was known in some Idaho records as "Nelson" Brown. His cattle brand there consisted of an N and a B, joined together as a single symbol. On his son Edgar's death certificate, he was called "Nelson" Brown.
Died in a logging accident in Stevens Co., WA near Colville.
William H. Nelson was the employer of Ebenezer Brown, father of William Nelson Brown, at the time of Ebenezer's marriage to Millicent Holladay, mother of William N. Brown.
Resided Salem Co., NJ; Indiana?; Vermilion Co., IL; Cissna Park, Iroquois Co., IL; Smith Prairie, Elmore Co., ID; and (with his son Walter and family) in Colville, Stevens Co., WA.
His father and mother were Baptists; his wife was affiliated with the Methodists; he became affiliated with Seventh Day Adventists in his last years.
Maggie was named for the two great grandmothers that are known to us: Margaret Watson and Margaret Mitchell.
Maggie Evans had 12 half brothers and half sisters born between 1867 and 1889, children of William Greene Mowry and Elizabeth (Evans) Mowry.
All of the evidence points to the probability that Maggie Evans was born as an illegitimate child:
Maggie Evans, in her application for a marriage license, gives for her father's name "Charles Evans". This was her grandfather's name as well. Nowhere else have we found this name listed as that of the father of Maggie. In the 1910 census, Maggie is quoted as saying her father was born in the U.S. Her husband states on Maggie's death certificate that the name of her father is "unknown".Maggie's mother, Elizabeth Evans, was either 14 or 15 years of age when Maggie was born:
1. Maggie was born either 22 Aug 1858 (according to her death certificate) or 22 Aug 1859 (according to a Bible record of J. Walter Brown). The year 1859 is consistent with all known censuses -- 1880, 1900, 1910. Maggie has not been found on census records of 1860 and 1870.
2. Elizabeth Evans was born either 6 Nov 1843 (according to her tombstone) or 6 Nov 1844 (according to the Bible Record of Wm. Greene Mowry and Elizabeth Evans Mowry). The census records show her as apparently having been born, variously, in 1843, 1844, 1845. She could not, however, have been born in Nov 1845 or in Nov 1844 since her brother, John, was born 23 Jun 1845. Clearly, then, her birth must have been 6 Nov 1843 (in agreement with her tombstone).
Leona Bachman told us in 1989 that she was always led to believe that the house
on the corner of Mt. Hope and Strimple Roads which she and her husband bought in
1925 had been built by two Conway brothers from Cincinnati. Perhaps one of
these brothers was Alva, as this was the house in which his parents lived.Occupation: Policeman, 25 years, Cincinnati, OH.
Divorced from Jennie C. Conway on 18 Oct 1899. Did not provide sufficient
support, apparently, for the raising of the children. Jennie worked as a
seamstress after the divorce. There were several very touching letters now in
our possession from a twelve or thirteen year old Stella to her father asking
that he send the support money he owed.Died of pneumonia. Buried Section 15, Lot 144 of the Spring Grove Cemetery, near
Cumminsville and near the home where his children were born.Name: Alvah Conway
Residence: Crosby, Hamilton, Ohio
Birth date: 1864
Birth place: Ohio, United States
Relationship to head-of-household: Son
Spouse name:
Spouse birth place:
Father name: Thomas Conway
Father birth place: New York, United States
Mother name: Martha Conway
Mother birth place: Ohio, United States
Race or color (expanded): White
Ethnicity: American
Gender: Male
Marital status: Single
Age: 16 years
Occupation: LaborerCollection: 1880 United States Census
Name: Alva B Conway
Titles:
Residence: Cincinnati City, Hamilton, Ohio
Birth date: May 1864
Birth place: OHIO
Relationship to head-of-household: Self
Spouse name: Nellie A Conway
Spouse birth place: Ohio
Father birth place: OHIO
Mother birth place: OHIO
Gender: Male
Marital status: Married
Years married: 0
Estimated marriage year: 1900Collection: 1900 United States Census
Birthname was probably Jane, after her maternal grandmother.
Divorced from Alva Barnes Conway on 18 Oct 1899. Did not receive sufficient
support, apparently, for the raising of the children. Jennie worked as a
seamstress after the divorce. There were several very touching letters now in
our possession from a twelve or thirteen year old Stella to her father asking
that he send the support money he owed. Jennie also received some support from
her uncle, Thomas Jefferson Brown, before he died in 1911.Jennie died 25 Mar 1913 of carcinoma of the stomach. Her brother-in-law, Harry
C. Slete was the undertaker. Burial was in Spring Grove Cemetery -- Section 15,
Lot 250 -- and not in Wesleyan Cemetery as stated on the Certificate of Death.info from the 1880 US census:
Name: Jenney Charlton
Residence: Morgan, Butler, Ohio
Birth date: 1866
Birth place: Ohio, United States
Relationship to head-of-household: Daughter
Father name: James Charlton
Father birth place: Ohio, United States
Mother name: Jane Charlton
Mother birth place: Ohio, United States
Race or color (expanded): White
Ethnicity: American
Gender: Female
Marital status: Single
Age: 14 years
Occupation: At School
NARA film number: T9-0996
Page: 185
Page letter: D
Entry number: 1117
Film number: 1254996
Collection: 1880 United States Census
Affiliated with the Baptist Church.
Farmer. Owned a farm adjacent to that of his father, John P. Burroughs, in
Brookfield Township, northeast of Brookfield, Linn County, MO.After 1897 Hope (Bunch) and David P. Murrain lived directly across the road from
Marion Burroughs, whose wife Carrie had died in 1891. After the death of David
in 1909, Marion and Hope were married and had one more child, "Lois", and they
apparently also raised the (younger) Murrain children.Marion's stepchildren by his second marriage to Hope were:
Frances "Fannie" B. Murrain b. Sep 1895, d. 21 May 1976, dsp.
Cora E. (Murrain) Novak b. 6 Jul 1897.
David "Bud" W. Murrain b. 1 Jun 1899, d. 19 May 1981.
Gilliam Murrain b. 1 May 1901, d. 24 Oct 1961.
Alpha (Murrain) Grandstaff Mott Schmidt Long b. 1 Apr 1909/10,
d. 20 Apr 1968.
13. Caroline Effie "Carrie" Brown
nickname "Carrie". G. Roy Burroughs, son of Marion and Carrie (Brown)
Burroughs, apparently did not know that his mother's actual name was Caroline.
The marriage license and tombstone inscription show her as being "Carrie E.";
family tradition was that she was "Carrie Effie Burroughs". Additionally, the
first daughter of G. Roy Burroughs and wife Edith was named "Carrie Mildred".Obituary: "The Brookfield Gazette", Brookfield, MO, Friday, November 13, 1891.
Died, at her home three miles north of this city, Monday last, Mrs. Marian
Burris [sic] Marion Burroughs. The funeral occurred from the house Tuesday,
conducted by Rev. McPhetrich. The remains were interred in Rose Hill Cemetery.Carrie died of tuberculosis as did later her brother Willie. Much later her
son G. Roy Burroughs died in the state TB hospital at Salem, Oregon with this
disease as a contributory cause of death.