Charles mother Mariette bore: William 1847-1849, Charles DeLoss, Sarah born June 1850 married William Brown, Castarah 1852-1925 married Joeseph Matthews, Stephen 1856-1895, married Ida Adamson. He has two half-sister's Alice Brower Shaul, Flora Brower and two half -brothers George and Frank Brower.
Charles married Fannie on November 9, 1881 in Custer County, NE.
Charles had nicknames for his sisters-in-law, referring to one as Old Black Sal and another as Aunt Screamer who had ten children.
He purchased the Thadeus Auer farm comprised of 160 acres one mile west of Haverhill. Charles never learned to drive a car but walked to Haverhill daily to play pitch. He subscribed to several political newspapers as well as the Wichita Eagle. His wife never dared throw out. Charles kept the back issues in the hall that led to the stairway upstairs.
In the late teens or 20's his party lost an election and even though he hated to used the telephone, he called one of his pitch buddies Jim Glade and told him Jim the country's gone to hell and hung up the phone. His political affiliation unknown, his father Hammond Healy Brower was a Democrat.
Charles was a member of the Masonic Lodge and when his youngest daughter Clin worked in Chicago, she bought him a Masonic Ring. When Clin presented it to her dad, he was so moved that he wept.
Charles attended Bayles Commercial College in Keokuk, Iowa., where he received the degree of "Master of Accountants." He came to Nebraska as a young man and settled in Fillmore County with his brother Douglas. later they homesteaded in Custer County in 1879 and batched until Charles Married Fannie Sillivan in 1881 in Ord, NE. Doughlas lived with them near Sargent until he married. Charles served several terms as the township assessor. The people whom he assessed were chiefly the Bohemians in the surrounding hills. He joined the Masonic Lodge in 1876.
All eight of the Charles Brower Children were born on the Nebraska Farm. The first four were born in the Sod House or the Dug-Out. In 1893 a new frame house was built and the last four children were born there.
Douglas Brower is the only one of the family who is buried in the Sargent Cemetery. He died in 1895.
Stories compiled by Geneva Simpson Basore, Carolyn Williams and Robert Simpson.
Charles married Fannie on November 9, 1881 in Custer County, NE.
Charles had nicknames for his sisters-in-law, referring to one as Old Black Sal and another as Aunt Screamer who had ten children.
He purchased the Thadeus Auer farm comprised of 160 acres one mile west of Haverhill. Charles never learned to drive a car but walked to Haverhill daily to play pitch. He subscribed to several political newspapers as well as the Wichita Eagle. His wife never dared throw out. Charles kept the back issues in the hall that led to the stairway upstairs.
In the late teens or 20's his party lost an election and even though he hated to used the telephone, he called one of his pitch buddies Jim Glade and told him Jim the country's gone to hell and hung up the phone. His political affiliation unknown, his father Hammond Healy Brower was a Democrat.
Charles was a member of the Masonic Lodge and when his youngest daughter Clin worked in Chicago, she bought him a Masonic Ring. When Clin presented it to her dad, he was so moved that he wept.
Charles attended Bayles Commercial College in Keokuk, Iowa., where he received the degree of "Master of Accountants." He came to Nebraska as a young man and settled in Fillmore County with his brother Douglas. later they homesteaded in Custer County in 1879 and batched until Charles Married Fannie Sillivan in 1881 in Ord, NE. Doughlas lived with them near Sargent until he married. Charles served several terms as the township assessor. The people whom he assessed were chiefly the Bohemians in the surrounding hills. He joined the Masonic Lodge in 1876.
All eight of the Charles Brower Children were born on the Nebraska Farm. The first four were born in the Sod House or the Dug-Out. In 1893 a new frame house was built and the last four children were born there.
Douglas Brower is the only one of the family who is buried in the Sargent Cemetery. He died in 1895.
Stories compiled by Geneva Simpson Basore, Carolyn Williams and Robert Simpson.
Charles mother Mariette bore: William 1847-1849, Charles DeLoss, Sarah born June 1850 married William Brown, Castarah 1852-1925 married Joeseph Matthews, Stephen 1856-1895, married Ida Adamson. He has two half-sister's Alice Brower Shaul, Flora Brower and two half -brothers George and Frank Brower.
Charles married Fannie on November 9, 1881 in Custer County, NE.
Charles had nicknames for his sisters-in-law, referring to one as Old Black Sal and another as Aunt Screamer who had ten children.
He purchased the Thadeus Auer farm comprised of 160 acres one mile west of Haverhill. Charles never learned to drive a car but walked to Haverhill daily to play pitch. He subscribed to several political newspapers as well as the Wichita Eagle. His wife never dared throw out. Charles kept the back issues in the hall that led to the stairway upstairs.
In the late teens or 20's his party lost an election and even though he hated to used the telephone, he called one of his pitch buddies Jim Glade and told him Jim the country's gone to hell and hung up the phone. His political affiliation unknown, his father Hammond Healy Brower was a Democrat.
Charles was a member of the Masonic Lodge and when his youngest daughter Clin worked in Chicago, she bought him a Masonic Ring. When Clin presented it to her dad, he was so moved that he wept.
Charles attended Bayles Commercial College in Keokuk, Iowa., where he received the degree of "Master of Accountants." He came to Nebraska as a young man and settled in Fillmore County with his brother Douglas. later they homesteaded in Custer County in 1879 and batched until Charles Married Fannie Sillivan in 1881 in Ord, NE. Doughlas lived with them near Sargent until he married. Charles served several terms as the township assessor. The people whom he assessed were chiefly the Bohemians in the surrounding hills. He joined the Masonic Lodge in 1876.
All eight of the Charles Brower Children were born on the Nebraska Farm. The first four were born in the Sod House or the Dug-Out. In 1893 a new frame house was built and the last four children were born there.
Douglas Brower is the only one of the family who is buried in the Sargent Cemetery. He died in 1895.
Stories compiled by Geneva Simpson Basore, Carolyn Williams and Robert Simpson.
Charles married Fannie on November 9, 1881 in Custer County, NE.
Charles had nicknames for his sisters-in-law, referring to one as Old Black Sal and another as Aunt Screamer who had ten children.
He purchased the Thadeus Auer farm comprised of 160 acres one mile west of Haverhill. Charles never learned to drive a car but walked to Haverhill daily to play pitch. He subscribed to several political newspapers as well as the Wichita Eagle. His wife never dared throw out. Charles kept the back issues in the hall that led to the stairway upstairs.
In the late teens or 20's his party lost an election and even though he hated to used the telephone, he called one of his pitch buddies Jim Glade and told him Jim the country's gone to hell and hung up the phone. His political affiliation unknown, his father Hammond Healy Brower was a Democrat.
Charles was a member of the Masonic Lodge and when his youngest daughter Clin worked in Chicago, she bought him a Masonic Ring. When Clin presented it to her dad, he was so moved that he wept.
Charles attended Bayles Commercial College in Keokuk, Iowa., where he received the degree of "Master of Accountants." He came to Nebraska as a young man and settled in Fillmore County with his brother Douglas. later they homesteaded in Custer County in 1879 and batched until Charles Married Fannie Sillivan in 1881 in Ord, NE. Doughlas lived with them near Sargent until he married. Charles served several terms as the township assessor. The people whom he assessed were chiefly the Bohemians in the surrounding hills. He joined the Masonic Lodge in 1876.
All eight of the Charles Brower Children were born on the Nebraska Farm. The first four were born in the Sod House or the Dug-Out. In 1893 a new frame house was built and the last four children were born there.
Douglas Brower is the only one of the family who is buried in the Sargent Cemetery. He died in 1895.
Stories compiled by Geneva Simpson Basore, Carolyn Williams and Robert Simpson.
Family Members
Siblings
Half Siblings
Children
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Robert Toombs Brower
1883–1956
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Edith Corbin Brower Simpson
1885–1967
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Hammond I. Brower
1887–1956
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Marcia Casendane "Cassie" Brower Covert
1889–1969
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Stella Maude Brower Catt
1893–1953
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Blanche Brower Knollenberg
1895–1983
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Clarinda Faith "Clin" Brower Burchill
1903–1995
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Lyle Manly "Brub" Brower
1906–1976
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