Samuel Brown & Family

Archibald Brown, born 1769 Connaught, Ireland was living in South Carolina 1790-1800. Then he was living in Boone and Nicholas County, Kentucky until [his] death in 1865. His son, Samuel Brown, was born in Nicholas County, Kentucky on March 6, 1813. He married Nancy Caldwell on May 9, 1835. They had eight children in Kentucky before moving to Indiana. They were Robert W., born 1834, John Alexander, born 1838 (my great grandparent [who] died in Kansas,) Sarah, born 1841, Lavin, born 1842, James M., born 1845, Nancy, born 1847, Columbus O., born 1847, Alvin, born 1849. Then it looks like they moved to Clinton Township, Boone County, Indiana in 1851 or 1852. They had five more children there. Martha, born 1852, Mary, born 1854, Margaret E., born 1856, Maria, born 1858, Della, born 1859. I got all this from census and family charts. It looks like Nancy Margaret (Caldwell) Brown died in Clinton Township in 1888 at the age of 72. Samuel is found on the 1860, 1870, and 1880 census in Clinton Township, Boone County, Indiana. I found him on the 1900 census living with his daughter, Sarah Erganbright, in Eel River Township, Hendricks County, Indiana. The date I have from my Grandmother's chart is November 19, 1900 for his death. It may be that he is buried in Hendricks County and not Boone. I am not sure how they would have done it back then. If they would have taken him [to be buried] next to his wife. I am sure that she would be buried in Clinton Township. I think their farm was just west of Elizaville from the 1878 plat book from this site [Boone County Genealogy, INGenWeb].

I descend from Archibald Brown as such: Archibald Brown > Samuel Brown > John Alexander Brown > Alvin W. Brown > Lee J. Brown > Elvin L. Brown.

Note from County Coordinator, T. Stover: Samuel and Nancy Brown were both found buried in Hopewell Cemetery, Clinton Township, Boone County, Indiana: Samuel Brown, born 1813, died 1900; Nancy M. Brown born 1816, died 1888, wife of Samuel. Source: "Cemeteries of Boone County, Indiana, Vol I," by Rosemary Peterman and Marilyn Walker, 1990.

Written & Submitted by: Elvin Brown and edited by, T. Stover - December 15, 2006