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Obediah Brown II

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Obediah Brown II

Birth
Death
3 Dec 1861 (aged 50)
Burial
Ferrelview, Platte County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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Son of Obediah Brown (the first)
Obediah Brown II killed by Silas Gordon, accidental shooting

Pg 320 text 'Annals of Platte co MO by Paxton' which is digitized online. In that text he is Obed Brown.
Dec 3 1861
Obed Brown and Silas Gordon were friends but Brown was drunk. In the middle of Main Street, Gordon was standing with the breech of his musket resting on the ground. Brown worried Gordon with his drunken talk, and Gordon pushed the barrel of the musket against Brown's head. The latter staggered and went off to a shed and lay down. A fire was built for his comfort, but in the morning he was unconscious, and died the 6th inst. Obed Brown was a son of Obed Brown and was a man of sound judgement and an industrious, honest and successful farmer. He married in Indiana in 1832, Eliza Grover, daughter of the Indian missionary Joel Grover. She was a sister of Levina Whitlock and of the distinguished D.A.N. Grover, of KS. She was born Sept 13 1815 and died at Kansas City May 10 1893. Children:
Lorinda Brown m. Robert Robinson and died in Mississippi; 4 cdn
Maria Brown m. Richard Dunlap. Live in Texas; 5 cdn
Missouri Brown b. Nov 25 1842 m. July 4 1867 Thomas C Jacks b. 1842, son of Sidney: Ch: Garnet Dec 19 1877
Oscar Brown m. July 6 1866 Kate Kuykendall
Amanda m. Robert S. Nunnelley Oct 6 1868
Laura Brown b. July 27__m. Apr 4 1872 David Bullock
Alice Brown m. Eli J Arnold. Live in Oklahoma; 3 cdn
Dan Brown m. June 13 1883 Sallie Crain. Live at the old Brown homestead on Wildcat Creek; 3 cdn
Son of Obediah Brown (the first)
Obediah Brown II killed by Silas Gordon, accidental shooting

Pg 320 text 'Annals of Platte co MO by Paxton' which is digitized online. In that text he is Obed Brown.
Dec 3 1861
Obed Brown and Silas Gordon were friends but Brown was drunk. In the middle of Main Street, Gordon was standing with the breech of his musket resting on the ground. Brown worried Gordon with his drunken talk, and Gordon pushed the barrel of the musket against Brown's head. The latter staggered and went off to a shed and lay down. A fire was built for his comfort, but in the morning he was unconscious, and died the 6th inst. Obed Brown was a son of Obed Brown and was a man of sound judgement and an industrious, honest and successful farmer. He married in Indiana in 1832, Eliza Grover, daughter of the Indian missionary Joel Grover. She was a sister of Levina Whitlock and of the distinguished D.A.N. Grover, of KS. She was born Sept 13 1815 and died at Kansas City May 10 1893. Children:
Lorinda Brown m. Robert Robinson and died in Mississippi; 4 cdn
Maria Brown m. Richard Dunlap. Live in Texas; 5 cdn
Missouri Brown b. Nov 25 1842 m. July 4 1867 Thomas C Jacks b. 1842, son of Sidney: Ch: Garnet Dec 19 1877
Oscar Brown m. July 6 1866 Kate Kuykendall
Amanda m. Robert S. Nunnelley Oct 6 1868
Laura Brown b. July 27__m. Apr 4 1872 David Bullock
Alice Brown m. Eli J Arnold. Live in Oklahoma; 3 cdn
Dan Brown m. June 13 1883 Sallie Crain. Live at the old Brown homestead on Wildcat Creek; 3 cdn


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