Biography of Henry Brown, pages 645 / 646.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Henry Brown was born in Knox County, Ohio, and in 1837 came with his family, 
consisting of a wife and three children, from Marion County, Ohio, to De Kalb 
County, Ind., and settled on section 11, Jackson Township.  The next winter 
he was obliged to go seventy miles for corn, for which he paid $1 a bushel.  
He improved a farm of eighty acres, residing here till his death.  He married 
Aseneth Knight in Ohio, and to them were born six children, three in Ohio---
Burton; Leander, died Oct. 2, 1871; Mary Ann, died Sept. 22, 1840; two died 
in infancy, and Milas, born July 15, 1839.  Mrs. Brown died July 23, 1844, in 
the thirty-fourth year of her age.  In 1847 Mr. Brown married Agnes Cooper, 
and to them were born six children---Samaria, wife of P.C. Wyrick; Samuel, 
Amaziah, Henry C., Dinah and Levi.  Mrs. Brown died Oct. 17, 1872, aged 
forty years, and Mr. Brown March 18, 1879, aged sixty-nine years.  The 
tornado that swept over the country in 1841 entirely destroyed Mr. Brown’s 
house.  The little son Milas, and a little cousin, a child of William 
Munroe, were the only occupants of the house at the time.  A bread-trough 
made of half a log scooped out stood on the end, and the door, which was 
torn from its hinges, feel over and rested on the trough directly over the 
children. This was covered with the debris.  When this was dug away and an 
opening mad, the eldest one immediately asked, “Can we come out now?”

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