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 2
Other spouse 4
Notes
Wife: Deborah S. ___
Married: 1888 in California
Divorced: Nov- 9-1894 in Tacoma, Pierce Co, WA 13
Father:
Mother:
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) Newspaper article, The following item, with the headline "Sanctification," appeared in the Tacoma Daily News of Sep 10
1894, page 3, quoted here in its entirety: "Ammi A. Brown has filed a suit for divorce from Deborah S. Brown, on the
grounds of desertion. They lived together but for three days, and during those three days she refused to be a wife to
him in fact as well as name and then returned to her former home and refused to live with him."
An article in the Nov 12 1894 issue of that newspaper, p. 3, one of several items under the title "City News," stated in
its entirety "Armi [sic] A. Brown has been divorced from Deborah S. Brown."
A slightly more detailed account was printed in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer of Nov 10 1894 in a column titled "Brief
Tacoma News," dateline Tacoma, Nov. 9: "A. A. Brown secured a decree of divorce today from Deborah Brown. They were
married in California in 1888, started on their honeymoon and got as far as Portland, when Mrs. Brown left her new
husband, after just three days of married life."
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
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