Lydia Elvina Knox, daughter of Asa and Minerva Knox, was born in Mercer county on October 24, 1851. In January 1869 she was united in marriage to David Brown. To this union sixteen children were born. The husband and five children have preceded her in death. Those left to mourn her passing are Mrs. Rose Kelsey of Washington, Iowa; William Brown of New Boston; Glen Brown of Eliza; Clem, Clint, Cleve, Earl and Dan Brown of Keithsburg and Mrs. Steve Robbins of this city where she has made her home for the past sixteen years. She also leaves sixty-eight grandchildren and forty great-grandchildren. She leaves one brother, Van Knox, of this city.
Mrs. Brown has spent all her life in Mercer county with exception of one year when she lived in Iowa.
Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon from the Christian church at one o'clock with Rev. Leslie J. Ross officiating. Burial in the Peniel cemetery near Joy.
(Times Record - Aledo, Illinois - March 23, 1932)
Lydia Elvina Knox, daughter of Asa and Minerva Knox, was born in Mercer county on October 24, 1851. In January 1869 she was united in marriage to David Brown. To this union sixteen children were born. The husband and five children have preceded her in death. Those left to mourn her passing are Mrs. Rose Kelsey of Washington, Iowa; William Brown of New Boston; Glen Brown of Eliza; Clem, Clint, Cleve, Earl and Dan Brown of Keithsburg and Mrs. Steve Robbins of this city where she has made her home for the past sixteen years. She also leaves sixty-eight grandchildren and forty great-grandchildren. She leaves one brother, Van Knox, of this city.
Mrs. Brown has spent all her life in Mercer county with exception of one year when she lived in Iowa.
Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon from the Christian church at one o'clock with Rev. Leslie J. Ross officiating. Burial in the Peniel cemetery near Joy.
(Times Record - Aledo, Illinois - March 23, 1932)
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Nancy Rosetta Brown Kiesey
1869–1959
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William Sumner Brown
1876–1937
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Daniel Perkins Brown
1878–1959
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Mina E. Brown Knox
1880–1965
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Clemett Allen Brown
1882–1956
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Asa Cleveland "Cleve" Brown
1886–1959
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Lewis Riley Brown
1888–1961
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Minnie Brown Robbins
1891–1927
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Lily Furn Brown Robbins
1895–1983
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True Clinton "Clint" Brown
1898–1980
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