William M. Brown

Birth Date

1829-10-30

Death Date

1915-07-06

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Eli Brown and Nancy Brown. Married to Hester Ann Trayler Brown in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in October 1852. Father of Nancy Brown, Sarah Brown, Eli Brown, Mildred Brown, and Florence Brown. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1850. Farmer in Princeton in 1860. Employed John Armstrong as a farmhand in Princeton in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 78B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 91-2.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Fisher Spring, p. 127A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Caldwell County Marriages, Film #000546372, p. 12.
"William Murry Brown (1829-1915)," Find A Grave, Memorial #79995532, accessed June 9, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79995532.

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