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Sgt Hezekiah Brown

1838 – 7 Jan 1885

Birth	1838
Death	7 Jan 1885
Cemetery	Wesley Cemetery Eldorado , Saline County , Illinois , USA
Added by	Jamie Farrell Tomlinson on 20 Feb 2013
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105414623

Bio

Born to Timothy and Margery J. (Watson) Brown in about 1838 in Illinois, Hezekiah Brown served for the Union as a Sergeant in the Civil War. He married first to Eliza Ann C. Robinson in 1859 and it is possible she was the mother to Hezekiah's oldest daughter, Frances Tallulah Brown. Apparently Eliza passed away soon after they married and he then married his second wife, Louisa Mertie Crossley in Indiana in 1867. Three more children were born: William Arthur Nathaniel, George William and Charlie Hezekiah. One day in about 1875, Hezekiah left for work and never returned. It was always assumed that he had died while at work at the mill, but through further research I recently found him living in Saline County, Illinois when he applied for a Civil War pension in 1883. When he passed away in 1885, a military headstone was applied for in his name, but the person's name who applied for the headstone was not listed. It is my belief that he abandoned his family and went back to Illinois where he had been born and raised.

Inscription

SGT. HEZEKIAH BROWN CO. H. 56th ILL. INF.

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Family

Parents

• Timothy Brown 1811–1880 FaG

Spouse

• Louisa Mertie Crossley Brown 1844–1891

Siblings

• Isaac Brown 1836–1865 FaG
• Franklin Brown 1840–1911 FaG
• John Brown 1844–1916 FaG
• Thomas J Brown 1849–1902 FaG
• Timothy Brown Jr 1859–1927 FaG
• Elizabeth Brown Schafer 1870–1962 FaG

Children

• Frances Tallulah "Fannie" Brown Prichard 1866–1934
• William Arthur Nathaniel Brown 1868–1937
• George William Brown 1872–1891
• Charley Hesekiah Brown 1875–1956

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