More early Brown pictures

 This is Issac Watt Brown with his granddaughters, Anna and May (May is Dolph's mom). I got this picture from Dolph's Aunt Beth. Later I tried to borrow it again to get a better copy, but one of her children had taken it and couldn't find it. Sorry it's not a better picture. I think it is the only one of Issac.

Issac (Ike) was born 4 Aug 1844 in Palestine, Crawford, Illinois and died 7 Jan 1921 at the Old Soldier's Home in Roseburg, Oregon. He married Charlotte Kelly, born in 1851 (either in Canada or Wisconsin - depends on which census you look at) on 21 Jun 1868 in Leavenworth, Brown, Minnesota.  She died 7 Jul 1922 in Silverton, OR.  They had nine children. Dolph's grandfather, John, was the third child. In military papers dated 6 April 1915, Issac states that he doesn't know where Charlotte is and he hasn't lived with her for 20 years.

Dolph and I went to the Oregon State Archives in Salem and found Charlotte's death certificate. It stated that she was buried in the Bethany Cemetery in Silverton. We went to Silverton and (with friends) walked the cemetery and could not find her grave...although there were a number of graves marked "occupied". With some investigation, we found the following story...
In the 1930s, the Bethany Cemetery had been sold to one of the local undertakers. He, not liking the unevenness of the ground there, decided to smooth it out. In doing so, he made a map of the cemetery showing where each grave was placed. He then took up the stones and smoothed the ground. While this was being done, the map of the graveyard was lost. Thus the stones with no inscription and just the word "occupied. We just have to have faith that Charlotte is really there!
Karen, I think you will see the resemblance to the present day Browns...John, Betty, etc.

This picture looks like it was taken about the same time. This is Anna on the left, Oscar, and Dolph's mom, May. Oscar was born in 1902, Anna in 1905 & May in 1907 (all in Sweet Home, Oregon)

I can see that their personalities had already developed at that early age!