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Joseph August Brown

Birth: 28 Jul 1892
Death: 1961 (aged 68–69)
Burial: Elmwood Cemetery

Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 37.0218496, Longitude: -95.6188163
Memorial ID: 34962086 View Source

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Parents

Sealy L. Brown

1862–1926
Johanna "Josie" Ragan Brown

1864–1936

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Bessie L Estes Brown

1893–1980

Siblings

Thomas Langford Brown

1885–1930
Edwin McKinley "Ted" Brown

1894–1979
Mary Emily Brown Stumbaugh

1907–1987

Children

James Brown

1915–2006
Dorothy L. Brown Walthall

1916–2008
Edwin A. "Jack" Brown

1918–1989
SSGT Warren Eugene Brown

1921–1943
Joseph August Brown Jr

1922–1995

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Maintained by: Eugene R. Walthall
Originally Created by: Will
Added: Mar 18, 2009
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34962086/joseph_august-brown: accessed ), memorial page for Joseph August Brown (28 Jul 1892–1961), Find a Grave Memorial ID 34962086, citing Elmwood Cemetery, Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas, USA; Maintained by Eugene R. Walthall (contributor 48256152).

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Here are brothers Tom and Joe Brown. Joe is seated.

This photo was taken in Coffeyville Kansas.

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Unlike his older brother Tom, Joe was a rebellious youth. His wedding came as a surprise to his parents, but he did well in landing Bessie Estes.

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This appeared in the Coffeyville Journal on 6-25-1920.

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This is a tree chart from the Estes family. In the lower left part of the diagram is a paragraph that describes a link between the Estes family and the Brown family that goes back friendship formed in California in the mid-1870's.

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This is Brown's Produce, my grandfather's feed store in Mound Valley Kansas. Look closely and you can see that he is standing on the old brick sidewalk in front of the store. The doorway off to the left side of the photo opened to a stairway which led to an upstairs hallway.

The upstairs area is where my grandparents lived. They also owned a house in Coffeyville which they eventually retired to.

Back in the old days the upstairs area was occupied by a doctor. At the top of the stairs was a hallway with three doors which led to five rooms, all of which were connected so that the doc could have several activities going on simultaneously and move from room to room as needed.

There was an old brick out-house behind the building. In the summertime it was infested with wasps and flies. In the winter, it was a frigid experience.

Getting to the outhouse at night was rather difficult and unsafe. There were two ways to get there:

1. Go down the front stairs, out the door and walk a hundred feet or so down the alley.
2. Go out the back door upstairs and take a wooden walkway across the roof to get to the rickety wooden exterior stairway leading down to the alleyway.

So... chamber pots were used. Aah...the good old days!!!!!

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Here are Joe and Bess in front of the store. This was taken on Easter Sunday in 1953.

Reflected in widow are images of the structures across the street - the wide, wide street.

In 1980, I drove to Mound Valley and found that this old building had been torn down. Nothing was left of it.

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Be sure to click on this photo to enlarge it. You will then be able to better see the truck backed-up to the Bushnell building (Brown's Produce).

This photo is from 1951. The view is looking East. Punkin Creek was about a mile or so in the distance.

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This is an overlap of pages 16 and 29 from a book about the history of Mound Vally. The book was published in 1979.

Here is Doctor Vaughn who offices once occupied the five rooms above the retail area, which in 1945 would become "Brown's Produce". If you will take time to read the above information, you will find that Mound Vally had 3 doctors in it's early days. Three!

It seems odd to me that a small community like this would have 3 doctors. But then, it also says that the people of Mound Valley were quenching their thirst with water from Pumpkin Creek - water which made them "develop a constant thirst"!

Ah, the "good old days...

I came across the book while browsing in the history shelves of the Denver Public Library.

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This appeared in the Coffeyville Journal on February 19, 1921.

My mother mentioned Josie's visits, but never said a word about Sealy visiting. I doubt that he did.

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My cousin, Russ Brown, sent me this years ago.

Russ notes that: "Grandpa Joe Brown was the only one that would catch for Walter when they had the fair in Coffeyville Park".

Walter Johnson was FAST!

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Joseph August Brown

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Sealy L. Brown

Johanna "Josie" Ragan Brown

Bessie L Estes Brown

Thomas Langford Brown

Edwin McKinley "Ted" Brown

Mary Emily Brown Stumbaugh

James Brown

Dorothy L. Brown Walthall

Edwin A. "Jack" Brown

SSGT Warren Eugene Brown