Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
SpouseMinerva Ellen Jones
BirthWilmington, Clinton Co., OH, USA
Deathabt 1884
Children
1 FLeona Brown
2 FAda Brown
4 MRoy Brown (Twin)
5 MRob Brown (Twin)
Census1880, USA, OH, Highland Co., Penn Age: 2
Census1900, USA, WY, Johnson Co., Buffalo Age: 22
Census1910, USA, NE, Lancaster Co., Lincoln Ward 7, Age: 32
Census1920, USA, WY, Johnson Co., Election District 2 Age: 42
Census1930, USA, WY, Johnson Co., Buffalo Age: 52
Census1940, USA, WY, Johnson Co., Buffalo Age: 62
Census1950, USA, WY, Johnson Co., Buffalo Age: 72
Death13 Oct 1957, Buffalo, Johnson Co., WY, USA2 Age: 80
Burial17 Oct 1957, Buffalo, Johnson Co., WY, USA
MemoWillow Grove Cemetery
SpouseMartha Curtis Bothwell (1878-1957)
Marriage9 Oct 1905, Lincoln, Lancaster Co., NE, USA3,161,6, Lincoln (NE) Journal Star 10/9/1905 Page 8 (license issued),1707
ChildrenWilbur Russell (1907-1969)
Frances Allen (1912-1984)
Charles Richard “Charlie” (1914-2002)
Notes for William Riley Brown
william had three wives. The first apparently died in childbirth, along with the child. Minerva was the second. Very little is known of the third.
Notes for Wilbur (NMI) (Child 6)
The eldest of six children.
According to a biography compiled by his son, Wilbur Russell Brown, Wilbur joined the Sells Bros. circus for a season as a roustabout at age 16 or 17, around 1893 or 1894. In 1893 he went to work for Sam Beard at New Vienna, OH for about two years, then worked a year with his uncle, John Quincy Brown, as a stone mason. Next he did farm work for Lode Harris in Eaton, OH, for about a year before getting a job with a telephone crew building a line from Eaton to Boston, IN. Stayed with the telephone company for a number of years, going to Lincoln, NE, in 1902 where he married Martha Curtis Bothwell in 1905. Later worked as a motorman and a lineman for the Lincoln Traction Co., then the Citizen’s Railway before moving to a homestead on Crazy Woman, WY in 1916 and then into Buffalo proper in 1921.
According to a biography compiled by his son, Wilbur Russell Brown, Wilbur joined the Sells Bros. circus for a season as a roustabout at age 16 or 17, around 1893 or 1894. In 1893 he went to work for Sam Beard at New Vienna, OH for about two years, then worked a year with his uncle, John Quincy Brown, as a stone mason. Next he did farm work for Lode Harris in Eaton, OH, for about a year before getting a job with a telephone crew building a line from Eaton to Boston, IN. Stayed with the telephone company for a number of years, going to Lincoln, NE, in 1902 where he married Martha Curtis Bothwell in 1905. Later worked as a motorman and a lineman for the Lincoln Traction Co., then the Citizen’s Railway before moving to a homestead on Crazy Woman, WY in 1916 and then into Buffalo proper in 1921.