Jul-28-2018
Husband: Ammi Almanzia Brown
Born: Sep-13-1829 in Boston, MA 1
Died: Jun-20-1899 in Orting, Pierce Co, WA 2,3 (see note 1)
Buried: in Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery, Orting, Pierce Co, WA 3,4
Resided: from May 1897 in Orting, Pierce Co, WA (see note 2)
Resided: Jun 1893 - May 1897 in Montesano, Chehalis (now Grays Harbor) Co, WA
Resided: 1888 in Escondido, San Diego Co, CA 5 (see note 3)
Resided: 1885 in Aldrich Twp, Wadena Co, MN 6
Resided: 1881 in Verndale, Wadena Co, MN 7
Resided: 1874 in Elmira, Chemung Co, NY 8 (see note 4)
Census: 1870 in Guilford, Chenango Co, NY
Resided: 1869 in New Berlin, Chenango Co, NY 9
Resided: 1862 in Palmyra, Jefferson Co, WI 10
Census: 1860 in Crawford Co, WI
Census: 1855 in Butternuts, Otsego Co, NY
Census: 1840 in Burlington, Otsego Co, NY
Occupation: carpenter 6,7,5,9
Military: Aug-22-1862 - Jul-26-1865 Cpl, Co A, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, Civil War 11,12
Father: Ammi Tufts Brown (1799 - 1874)
Mother: Annis ___ (1801 - )
Other spouse 1
Other spouse 3
Other spouse 4
Notes
Wife: Almira Sanders 6,13
Married: btwn 1860-1870 (see note 5)
Born: ca 1843 in New York 14
Died: ca 1887 in Minnesota 15
Resided: 1885 in Aldrich Twp, Wadena Co, MN 16
Census: 1881 in Verndale, Wadena Co, MN 7
Census: 1870 in Guilford, Chenango Co, NY
Census: 1850, 1860 in Norwich, Chenango Co, NY
Father: Henry J. Sanders (1806 - )
Mother: Olive L. Mowry (1814 - )
Notes
M Child 1: Addison Avery Brown
Born: Aug- 1-1881 in Verndale, Wadena Co, MN 17,18
Died: Jan-13-1954 in Youngstown, Mahoning Co, OH
Buried: in Lake Park Cemetery, Youngstown, OH 19
Resided: in Youngstown, Mahoning Co, OH 13
Resided: 1910 - 1943 in West Union, Doddridge Co, WV 13,20,21
Census: 1920 in Wabash (West Union), Doddridge Co, WV
Resided: 1893 - 1910 in Chehalis County (now Grays Harbor Co), WA 22,18
Census: 1910 in Montesano, Chehalis (now Grays Harbor) Co, WA
Census: 1900 in Satsop, Chehalis (now Grays Harbor) Co, WA
Census: 1885 in Aldrich Twp, Wadena Co, MN
Resided: originally in Verndale, Wadena Co, MN
Occupation: glass-blower (in WV), steel mill worker (in OH) 13
Wife: Nancy Lou "Babe" Haught b. Jan-19-1884 d. Sep-23-1977
Married: Dec-20-1910 in West Union, Doddridge Co, WV 23,24
Sources:
(1) 1885 Minnesota Census, Identified as A. A. Brown, age 53, birthplace Massachusetts. Wife: Almira, age 41, birthplace
New York. Son: Addison (misspelled Adison), age 3, birthplace Minnesota.
(2) Death Record - Online, Identified as Ammi (?) A. Brown, 69, white male, born in Massachusetts, father's name Brown,
father's birthplace (blank), mother's name and birthplace (blank), marital status illegible but appears to be married,
occupation carpenter, resident of Soldiers Home; died June 20 1899 at Soldiers Home Orting, cause of death
apoplexy.
(Washington Deaths, 1891-1907, an online database at Ancestry.com), Pierce County (Washington) Death Register, p. 71,
Record No. 2960.
(3) http://home.comcast.net/~suvcw1/cemetery/graves/orting.pdf.
(4) Findagrave.com.
(5) California Voter Registrations, 1866-1898, Ancestry.com.
(6) 1885 Minnesota Census.
(7) Birth record of son.
(8) City Directory, From Boyd's 1874 City Directory of Elmira, New York: "Brown, Ammi A., carpenter, h 258 W Hudson " The
key to abbreviations indicates that the "h" stands for
house.
http://www.joycetice.com/director/1874p058.htm.
(9) City Directory.
(10) Civil War Service Records, .
(11) Headstone, The military headstone reads: "Corp'l A. A. Brown, Co A, 1st Wis H.A."
Officers of the Wisconsin 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment were Colonel Charles C. Meservey; Lieutenant Colonel Jacob T.
Foster; and Majors Charles C. Meservey, L. H. Drury, Richard W. Hubbell and David C. Fulton. The regiment originated in
Dec 1861 as a detached company of 2nd Wisconsin Infantry and was stationed at Fort Cass. On Aug 28 1862, a detachment
of 40 men, with three pieces of artillery, was sent to garrison Fort Buffalo, an exposed post, where it repulsed an
enemy attack. It returned to Fort Cass in Sep 1862, moved to Fort Ellsworth in November, and was transferred to Fort
Worth in May 1863. In Jun 1863, Capt. Meservey was authorized to recruit a battalion of four batteries of heavy
artillery, using the original battery as a basis. Battery A moved in October from Fort Worth to Battery Rodgers, where
it remained until May 1864, and was then transferred to Fort Willard (Fort Willard Circle and Glen Drive, off Fort Hunt
Road, Alexandria, VA). It returned to Battery Rodgers in August and was mustered out at Washington on Aug 18 1865. The
entire regiment's original strength was 1,777, with gains by recruits (407), draft (4) and reentlistments (29) bringting
to total to 2,217. Losses were by death (73), desertion (70), transfer (28), discharge (223), unaccounted for (3), and
mustered out (1,820). (Sources: "Civil War Regiments from Wisconsin," by Lt. Col. Jerome A. Watrous, originally
published in 1908 by Federal Publishing Company, reprinted in 2003 by eBooksOnDisk.com, pp. 106-107;
http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unwiarty.htm
)
http://www.dodgejeffgen.com/archive/PalmyraCivilWar.htm.
(12) Civil War Service Records, , Documents obtained from the Wisconsin Historical Society: Descriptive Roll
of Company A, First Regiment, contained the following entry: Ammi A. Brown, age 32, married, residence Palymyra,
occupation carpenter, eyes blue, hair brown, complexion sandy, height 5' 7-1/2", rank Private, enlisted Aug 22 1862 at
Palmyra by Lt. Caleb Hunt, term of service 3 years, mustered in on Aug 30 1862 at Madison, mustered out on Jun 26 1865
at Battery Rodgers, Virginia.
(13) Immediate family.
(14) 1850 Census, Note: Earl Perry Crandall, citing NBV : VARS' Records; Vol II, p. 171, reports Almira's birth as Mar 18
1845 in Plainfield, Otsego Co, NY. But this was actually for a different person, Almira Saunders, daughter of William
M. Saunders & Catherine Beedle.
(15) Presumed, In an affidavit filed by son Addison in 1935 to establish his date of birth, he stated that his mother had
died when he was about age six. This would put her death in about 1887 or 1888. In 1915, in an application for
membership in the Modern Woodmen of America, a fraternal benificiary society, Addison stated that his mother died at age
44 of "inflammation of bowels." The location was probably in Minnesota, since Almira was there for the 1885 Census,
husband Ammi is known from a land purchase to have been there in 1890, and his move to Washington State occurred in
1893.
(16) 1885 Minnesota Census, Her age listed as 35, her birthplace as New York, her father's birthplace as Connecticut, her
mother's birthplace as New York, and her residence as Aldrich Township, Wadena
County.
(17) Minnesota Birth Index, 1935-2002 (online database), Ancestry.com and Minnesota Dept of Health.
(18) 1910 Census, Chehalis County (now known as Grays Harbor County), Washington.
(19) Headstone, Sect U,Lot 3,Grv 1.
(20) 1920 Census, Doddridge County, WV (West Union District).
(21) 1930 Census, Doddridge County, WV (West Union District).
(22) 1900 Census.
(23) Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV, Identified as Addison Brown, 29, b. Waudina Co Minnesota, res.
Chehalis Co Washington; and Babe Haught, 23, b. & res. in Doddridge Co. Married Dec 20 1910 in West Union by John T.
Hickman, Minister of the M. E. Church. MR p. 388.
(24) Newspaper wedding announcement, West Union Record, Friday, Jan 6 1911, quoted in its entirety: "Married in Fairview. A
wedding was solemnized at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Foley in the Fairview addition on Dec 27, 1910. The parties to
the contract were Mr. A. A. Brown, of the State of Washington, and Miss Babe Haught, the sister of Mrs. Foley, and a
daughter of Mr. D. M. Haught, of near Oxford. The groom is a native of the afar off Northwest, and has only been here a
few weeks, but after choosing a West Virginia girl for a wife, he has decided to settle among the West Virginia hills
and make this state his home. Here's congratulations to Mr. Brown and his bride." (Note: Marriage record shows that
the actual date of the wedding was Dec 20 1910.)
Event Notes
Note (1) at the Washington Soldiers Home
Note (2) Washington Soldiers Home
Note (3) "The Great Register of San Diego County for 1890" contains the following
entry:
Ammi A. Brown, age 57, nativity Massachusetts, occupation carpenter, local
residence Escondido, date of registration Feb 13 1888.
Note (4) 258 W. Hudson Street, occupation carpenter
http://www.joycetice.com/director/1874p058.htm
Note (5) The 1860 Census shows Ammi with his first wife, Deborah, but he was with
Almira in the 1870 Census.
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