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John Martin Brown
29 Jun 1824 – 13 Oct 1888
| Birth | 29 Jun 1824 |
| Death | 13 Oct 1888 |
| Cemetery | Ogden City Cemetery Ogden , Weber County , Utah , USA |
| Added by | SMS on 26 Jul 2024 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32296617 |
Bio
Son of Capt. James Brown and Martha Stephens Married Nancy Ann Foutz, 25 January 1841, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois Married Lovina Wilson, 23 October 1854, Ogden, Weber, Utah Married Louise Ann Wilson, 23 October 1854, Ogden, Weber, Utah Married Almeda Wilson, 23 October 1864, Ogden, Weber, Utah Biography. John Martin Brown the eldest son of Capt. James Brown and Martha Stephens Brown was born June 29, 1824, in Rowan County, North Carolina. There were eight sons and one daughter in the family. He lived at this place, working on his father's farm, and helping to make hemp rope, until he was nine years of age. In 1833 the family came to Brown County, Illinois, a thousand-mile journey, which was made with horses and wagons. His father being a school teacher it was under his teachings that John learned the rudiments of reading and writing. After living in Brown County for two years, the family moved to Adams County, Ill., where his father entered into farming on a large scale. This new country and the land had to be cleared of timber before it could be cultivated. This was accomplished by girdling the trees so they would die, then cutting them down and putting them in piles then burning them. After this land was cultivated and crops were grown the produce was shipped to Quincy, Ill. on the Mississippi River. Wild meat, such as deer, wild turkey, partridge, possum, coon, quail, and wild hogs were plentiful. Therefore, it was from this supply that they were able to obtain fresh meat for summer and dried meat for their winter use. In this part of the country were salt licks, left from the receding of an ancient sea, and it was here that the deer would go to drink and get salt and this made it convenient for the hunters. They also made bird traps from small poles to catch wild turkeys. They would leave a string of corn leading to the trap and the turkey would eat the corn finally falling into the trap. After the land was cultivated and they had raised sufficient corn to feed hogs they raised domesticated ones, but it was necessary to keep them penned to keep the wild hogs from killing them. It was also necessary to watch the pens at night and keep firebrands burning to keep away prairie wolves. At times they drove large turtles into brush fires and roasted them. At one time they caught one and raised it in the swill barrel. During the summer the hogs were turned out in the forest and fed on nuts in the weeds, which consisted mostly of oak and hazel brush. In the evening they fed them corn. At feeding time they managed to get them home by calling in a loud voice "pig-ooh" and soon they would hear the pigs grunt and here they would come running for their corn. Their home was a log cabin, such as Daniel Boone lived in. On their farming, they raised corn, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, and beans. They were very glad when they were able to raise these luxuries, as they got tired of living on wild meat. It was necessary to travel ten to fifteen miles on horseback with saddle bags over a rough crooked road in order to get the corn to the mill to have it ground into corn meal. This would take one or two days, as the only mills available were hand mills. The miller received his pay by taking his toll of corn. His mother always milked the cow and when she was confined to bed with a new baby, the lot fell to John M., now a boy of fourteen or fifteen years of age. He put on his mother's dress and sunbonnet, thinking he would fool the cow, but when she saw him she ran away. One event he remembered well was the death of his mother. They lived in a log cabin which had a loft of plank floor where dried fruit was kept. His mother died of childbirth and he said at the time he heard beautiful singing, which seemed to come from the loft. This was on Sept. 28, 1840. In the spring of 1836, after the Mormons had been expelled from Missouri and had begun to settle in Illinois, his parents heard the gospel preached and soon thereafter were converted and all the family was baptized in 1838.
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Family
Parents
Spouse
- Nancy Ann Foutz Pearson 1826–1894
- Lovina Wilson Brown 1830–1901 FaG
- Louisa Ann Wilson Brown 1831–1903 FaG
- Alameda Eliza Wilson Brown 1836–1922 FaG
Siblings
- CPL Alexander Brown 1826–1910 FaG
- Pvt Jesse Sowell Brown 1829–1905 FaG
- Nancy Brown Sanford 1830–1895 FaG
- Daniel Brown 1832–1864 FaG
- James Morehead Brown 1834–1924 FaG
- William Brown 1836–1904 FaG
- Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Brown 1838–1864 FaG
- Moroni Brown 1840–1916 FaG
- Alma Foutz Brown 1842–1842 FaG
- James Harvey Brown 1846–1912 FaG
- Mary Eliza Brown Critchlow 1847–1903 FaG
- Esther Ellen Brown Dee 1849–1893 FaG
- Mary Ann "Polly" Brown Leonard 1853–1927 FaG
- Phoebe Adelaide Brown Snyder 1855–1930 FaG
- Joseph Smith Brown 1856–1903 FaG
- Charles David Brown 1856–1926 FaG
- Josephine Vilate Brown Newman 1858–1917 FaG
- James Fredrick Brown Sr 1859–1923 FaG
- Augustus Hezikiah Brown 1862–1916 FaG
- Orson Pratt Brown 1863–1946 FaG
Children
- Jacob Henry Brown 1847–1910
- Elma Brown Hyland 1859–1917 FaG
- John Martin Brown II 1860–1938 FaG
- Louisa Brown Stone 1861–1898 FaG
- George Brown 1862–1886 FaG
- Alvin Brown 1863–1945 FaG
- Mary Ann Brown Wilson 1865–1901 FaG
- Nancy Ann "Honey" Brown Young Martin Hawkins 1865–1934 FaG
- Andrew Jackson Brown 1867–1888 FaG
- William Brown 1868–1939 FaG
- Lovina Brown Firkins 1870–1944 FaG
- Caroline Brown Madsen 1873–1929 FaG
- Eveline Brown Sibbett 1874–1908 FaG
- Charles Brown 1874–1960 FaG
- Calvin C Brown 1875–1938 FaG
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