Robert Harrison Brown was born in Booneville, Saline County, Missouri, He was second child of George Mason Brown-1824 to 1861, killed in battle of Boonville with his brother in Missouri, and his mother Sarah A Brown/Alexander- 1828 to 1917. Robert had three brothers, four sisters and a half,sister, After his father was killed in Cival war his mother married his fathers second cousin Thomas Jefferson Brown Jr. in 1870, Then 1n 1871 Robert moved with the rest of the family and mother and stepfather to Marion, Douglas County, Kansas where he met and Married Elizabeth (Kitty) Catherine Brown/Marker March 17 1880. Then March 3 1881, they had their first son, who was born in Nottingham, Wells, Indiana, where her mother lived. Then on February 23 1983 they had a daughter in Marion Douglas County Kansas. 1885 Kansas Census shows initials as S. C. or L. C. I thought she was named after mother and grandmother, Sarah Catherine, that is what I put on ancestry, then everyone did, then found a relative that had birth date and name in family Bible, still
can't make out what it says could be Lucy, which is what my Aunt who was born in 1914 thought. I think they called her Lucy Catherine, which she was probably named after her mother Elizabeth Catherine and they nick named her Lucy instead of Lizzy, So I call her Sarah Catherine "Lucy" Brown. Then on November 10 1884 they had another son, George Mason Brown in Ottawa, Franklin Kansas, Then on January 11 1887 they had another daughter, Jennie Brown, No one knows if she had a middle name. They had her in Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas. then they moved to Appanoose, Franklin County Kansas. Anyway that is where Robert Harrison was farming, I don't know if he owned land or if it was for someone else. Then about 1894 Sarah Catherine "Lucy" Brown was killed in farm accident when she was accidentally ran over by a mower. That must of caused great hardship because in Oct 1895 Robert Harrison Brown & Elizabeth Catherine were divorced. Robert Harrison then Moved to Alamota, Lane County, Kansas with his children, bought some land and started farming their where he remained the rest of his years. In 1899 Robert Castleman Brown and Jennie Brown went and lived with mother and step-father. Robert Harrison Brown met Bertha A Lanham and was married in 1908, His Daughter Jennie Brown also married same year to Earl Fisher. Robert Harrison Brown family lived in a sod House, Son Robert Castleman joined Navy about 1909. Then on November 24 1910, his son George Mason Brown met and Married Carrie Etta Brown/Smith and they lived with him. In the middle of March 1914 Robert Harrison and His wife Bertha Moved out of sod house and moved into an old wooden house 1/2 mile north of farm so Mason and Carrie could live by themselves in sod house, they said wood house was a lot colder. Mason signed a petition for a road, and came back and found out it was granted in February 1916, November 4 1916 Robert Harrison Brown's brother was killed by a railroad switching Engine. Robert Harrison Brown Passed Away February 12 1928, at 3:30 P.M. on farm at Alamota, Lane County, Kansas.