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From: Cindy Bates <>
Subject: John O. Brown
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 23:02:16 -0400


I am researching the ancestry of Anna R. BROWN, née Rachel A. BROWN (ca.
1846 - 1919). I am having difficulty finding out about where her father,
John O. BROWN, came from (supposedly Massachusetts), who his parents were,
and what happened to him, his wife and children after 1860. Any leads,
additional information? I have put together what I do know below.

Cindy Bates
Boston, Massachusetts

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Anna R. (née Rachel A.) BROWN
b. ca. 1846 prob. in Hamilton
1850 (census) living with [grandparents?] Ephraim and Elizabeth WOODRUFF in
Hanover Twp. and called Rachel A. Brown
1860 (census) living with father and second wife in Hamilton [see below]
m. 1864 Samuel RIDENOUR (1835-1910) (of College Corner, Union Co., Indiana)
in Hamilton by Rev. William Davidson
1870 (census) living Iola, Kansas where Samuel was a wholesale grocer and
druggist with $5500 in real estate and $7000 in personal estate.
1880, 1900, 1910 (census) living Kansas City, Mo. with her husband (they
were quite wealthy)
d. 1919 Minneapolis (while a resident of Washington Hotel in K.C.Mo.)
ch.
Lloyd B., b. Kansas 1870, d. 1901
Blanch, b. Kansas ca. 1877, m. K.C. Claude Albert CARLAT (1866-1948), d.
1936 (3 ch)
John, b. Missouri 1882, d. 1918
[Note: both sons m. and one of them had 2 dau.]

her father:
John O. BROWN
b. ca. 1811 in Massachusetts (per census 1850 and 1860 and corroborated by
his daughter, Anna/Rachel)
m.(1) 1844 Rachel A. WOODRUF by Rev. Thomas E. Thomas, pastor Presbyt.
Church Hamilton
1850 (census) living alone, resident Buckeye House, occupation "druggist",
$2000 in real estate
1855/56 purchased land of John H. Shney[sp?] assignee of Thomas W.
Watinoon[sp?]
1856 purchased land of Mriah Hunsaker
m.(2) 1856 Mary Ann COLLINS (who b. Ohio) in Hamilton by Rev. William
Davidson
1858 purchased land of Fulkerson, Epperson
1860 (census) lists wife as Sarah A. BROWN and three children, occupation
"druggist", $14K in real estate, $4000 in personal estate
1870 (census) not listed anywhere, presumed dead
ch. from m(1):
Rachel Ann (later Anna R.) b. ca. 1846 prob. Hamilton
ch. from m(2) [note similarity of names to Anna's sons]
Loydd G., b. ca. 1858
John, b. 1860

her mother?:
Rachel A. WOODRUFF
b. ca. 1825
m. 1844 John O. BROWN of Mass. by Rev. Thomas E. Thomas, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church of Hamilton.
d. before 1850
Child:
Rachel A. Brown, b. ca. 1846, who was living with Ephraim & Elizabeth
WOODRUFF in 1850, and with John O. Brown and his second wife in 1860.
I suspect that Rachel A. Woodruff may be dau. of Ephraim & Elizabeth
WOODRUFF.

her maternal grandparents (not yet fully established):
Ephraim & Elizabeth (possibly Betsey DIGBY) WOODRUFF (m. 1814? Butler Co.)
He was born in N.J. ca. 1893. They lived in Hanover Twp., Butler Co., Ohio
(census 1830, 1840, 1850).
He was a farmer and d. after the 1850 census. I did not find him in the 1860
census.
Elizabeth or Betsey was b. ca. 1796/7 in Kentucky or Ohio and d. after 1870.
I have one source that says her brother William was the founder of
Lafayette, Indiana in 1825. This William Digby (1802-1864) was born in
Kentucky. Elizabeth was living with her son Ephraim and his family in 1870.
Children b. Hanover Twp. (census records suggest they had as many as eight
children):
William D., 1821-1888
Ephraim L., b. 1829, m. Eliza and was living Hanover in 1870 with 3 ch: Dela
7, Charles 6, and Robert 4
Sarah J., b. ca. 1834
In the 1830 census, Ephraim is living with his wife and 7 children: a male
and a female both 15-20, two females 10-15, a male and a female 5-10, and a
male under 5. In the 1840 census, Ephraim is living with his wife, and 4
children: a male and female both 15-20, a male 5-10, and a female under 5.
In the 1850 census, Ephraim and Elizabeth are living with son E.L. [Ephraim
L.] age 22, Rachel A. Brown age 3, and Sarah J. Woodruff age 16.

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