The morning times., 1897-01-16
JOHN BROWNS DAUGHTER
The Sole Survivor of the Raid
Lives in Poverty.
HER DOMICILE AN OLD SHED
She Has Had Very Bad Luck, Her
Farm in California Being Heavily
Burned Down-An Appeal TO the
Colored People for Aid.

There has been considerable effort made
of late in Washington through interest OF
DR.. Thomas Featherstonhaugh, medical ref
cree of the Pension Bureau, to raise funds
to send to the relief of Mrs. Annie Brown
Adams, q daughter of John Brown, the
famous raider of Harper's Ferry. she is
the sole survivor of the raid and is living
in dire poverty in Humboldt county, Cal
Mrs. Adams is now about sixty years old.
She was sixteen years old at the time Of
her fathers heroic immolation on the altar
of a principle.
The appearance OF a, newspaper article
asking for help for her some weeks ago
caused Col Hinton. who was associated
with her father in Kansas before the raid,
to come out with statement that she was
not the sole survivor of John Bro wn's fam
lily, ard that she was doubtless not in need
and the public was being imposed upon. Dr.
Featherstonhaugh was seen yesterday by
Times reporter, and he said hat Col. Hin
ton had acknowledged that he did not
know anything about the circumstances
of Annie Bro wn Adams, except that she had
living relatives. This is true, but it is also
true that she is the only survivor Of The
raid, as was before published.
IAey are very oois
All the Browns, DR.. Featherstonbaugh
says, are very poor They have never
asked for charity and have avoided puDilc
notice with painful sensitiveness all these.
years since 50. They have had deep
rooted feeling that all Americans were op-
posed to them, and no amount OF argument
has ever been able to root that sentlm ent
from their breasts. Annie Brown Adams
made an unfortunate marriage, Her nus
band was for many years victim OF
drink and never made her a 1ittlng sup
port. She got him to go to the northern
part of California, where he would be away
from bad association, and there she has
struggled to pay for farm. ......t.
She has had very bad luck, and while
she nominaily owns the place, it really
is heavily encumbered with mortgage
Last July her house burned down, and
the crops were a complete failure Iney
have been living in shed IN abJect
poverty for several months. IL Will be
| readily Seen that her relatives are unable
| to help her, since the doctor says that
| her brother, Jason Brown, crippled old
| man seventy-four years of age, is working
| us a common laborer on the section of u
| railroad. She has a sister, MIS-. Thomp-
| son, living at Pasadena, IN old woman, who
| issupported bya daughter, q school teacher.
| This sister and Major Hcratio Rust of
| California both wrote to DR.. Featherston-
| haugh TO interest him in Mrs. Adan.. The
| doctor has for many years been deeply
| interested i'll all that related TO the John
| Brown raid. He has studied up the his
| torical event and has taken pictures of
the relics of the deed Oh the scene. He
| has pictures of the old Kennedy farm
| house. where John Brown gathered his
| forces. 1t still stands in the same spot, five
| miles from Harper's Ferry.
| In speaking OF Annie Brown Adams part
in that event, hn said that she was at
| that time u girl sixteen years old. She