Kit Carson County, Colorado |
Joseph McKindred 'Mack' and Julia Mabel (Bump) Brown, step-mother Martha E. (Calhoun) Brown , 6 South 50 West
THIS MIGHT BE LYDIA'S FAMILY In 1850 Platte County, Missouri, Henry "Basye" is a tailor 43, with Ceolida 38, both born in Virginia, Elizabeth 18, Ann 14, Thomas 2, Charles 7, Edgar 3, and Alce 1. |
OTHELLO Washington- Fire Chief Robert O. Brown, 42, died Thursday evening in the Ellensburg General hospital after suffering six days from third degree burns received in a grass fire near Othello, Friday, June 24, 1949. Mr. Brown, chief of the Othello volunteer fire department, and four firemen were burned when their truck stalled in the middle of a raging grass fire. The five were rushed to Ellensburg by a special Milwaukee road train. The other four firemen are recovering. Mr. Brown was born April 25, 1907, in Springfield, Mo. He moved with is parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Brown, to Deer Lodge, Mont., in 1917 and resided there for several years. It was there that he met and married Nellie Hamilton on Aug. 19, 1929, at Missoula. He and his wife and child moved to Avery, Idaho, in 1934, and then to Othello in 1943. He was employed by the Milwaukee railroad as an electrician. Mr. Brown is survived by his widow, Nellie; one son, Norman, who is in the navy, and one daughter, Joyce, at home; his mother, Mrs. J. M. Brown, Deer Lodge, Mont.; one brother, Merle Brown of Butte, Mont.; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Sennett at Bremerton; and Mrs. Helen Nelson at Deer Lodge; two half-brothers, Marshall Brown of Deer Lodge, Mont.; and Joseph Brown, Alabama; and three half-sisters, Mrs. Goldie Meals, Missouri; Mrs. Hattie Williams and Mrs. Lydia Denniston of California. He was a member of the Loyal Order of the Moose of Deer Lodge, Mont., a member of the O.E.S. chapter No. 234 of Othello and of the Paul Revere Lodge No. 205 F. and A. M. of Othello. The funeral was conducted by the Rev. Elmer E. Rosenkildte of Connell Tuesday in the Othello Presbyterian church. Pallbearers were brother Masons, John Donley, Manford Stromme, Clarence Gordon, J. J. Valleroy, Ern Hodson and Clarence Showalter. The body was taken to Lind for burial where the F. and A. M. held graveside services. Honeycutt Funeral home of Ellensburg had charge of the arrangements. |
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