New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-18

only two sons remain in the land Of life, There
are are, three married daughters and one ST. still
single. All six now live the Pacific Slope.
Ruth Brown. the eldest daughter, and wife OF
Henry Thompson. lives with their daughter.
Mary. TEACHER In the public schools at South
Pasadena. Cal. She is their only support. for
both are on and feeble though cheerful, bright
and much beloved by neighbors and friends.
Jason. the ,llest living member OF the family.
has Cahif. upon one OF the mountains of the
Coast Range. where he lives almost hermit
life. having adopted daughter who is blind,
ana whom he Is training as musician. He
works on the roads or does other labor when he
has chance but is devoted mainly to work
ing out a model for an airshp, which he be-
lieNes will be a success. He has some married
children. and their families live at or near
Akron, Ohio. but they are unable to help him.
ANNIE BROWN ADAMS's FAMILY.
Annie Brown Adams the tenth child of the
second marriage and of the heroic matron who
buried at North Elha the body of her husband
after Virginia had demonstrated as Victor
Hugo said to me in 1873. that Harper's Ferry
proved that even washington could have
Spartacus" lives in Humboldt County Cal
the mother Of ten children, Of whom seven
ere living. Several married. and grand
children become numerous. She is very
poor, and has a severe struggle Sarah lives
with her sister Ellen Feblinger, Santa CRUZ
County, Cal They are younger. There are
several children. Salmon a young son of Mary
and John Brown. is on a farm at Salem. ore.
whom two at least married and have chill
dren Of their own. All the Browns poor.
This is the best information can obtain, and
nnder 1t there will be found that three genera
lions, over sixty In number. are living out there,
sun the same plain, simple, upright and high
thinking Americans that Emerson In later
years often referred TO as examples Wealthy G.
Brown, widow Of the late John brown, jr. lives
at their vineyard home on Putin Bay Island,
Sandusky Bay, Ohio believe their daughter
Is married and children OF the second genera
tlon are IN that pleasant home.
or the others. | have far kept trace Of the
former widow of John l.. Cook who lives In
Chicago, with her son and daughter by the
second marriage. COOKS son lives in Connect
cut, provision dealer in one Of its busiest
cities. One sister Of Cook lives in New-York
City-a rich widow. Another. unmarried,
sides on the family homestead at I1addam.
Conn. Stevens elder brother still lives at Nor
wch. There are several growing families. one
brother moved to Cincinnati where his eldest
son lives. Another nephew lives at Brookllne.
Mass. Professor O. G.. Libby. holding the chair
OF history in the State University Of Wisconsin.
is nephew of Sergeant Tidd. and there are
other members Of the family still living In
Maine Hazlett has relatives at Indiana Penn.
The COppOcs left brothers and other relatives
who yet live in Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas
brother OF jeremiah Anderson lives at Mon
terey. Cal. and nephew, DR.. Il. *. Westfall,
lives at Bushnell, III. There was an elder
brother and family in Southern Kansas. Kagis
father and sister lived there also and the lat
ter is, l believe, still alive. A half sister OF
Merriam resides in Providence, r. l., and Mrs.
s. II. Brandt, sister Of Leeman, lives in
Charestown Mass William Thompsons widow
married again. and still lives in Michigan.
Isabella Thompson, a sister Of Henry. William
and Dauphin. married Watson Brown -Four
years after his death she remarked TO
cousin, salmon Brown, a prosperous farmer in
Wisconsin. where she still lives. Watsons sen
died in his fourth year.
THE COLORED MEMBERS OF THE BAND
AS TO the cOored men, nothing is known Of
Anderson's parents and brothers. They lived in
Pennsylvania. and were very unknd. When
he was fleeing for his life they in their fright
refused him assistance William Sheridan
Leary, as his brother writes it, has brother
living in Charlotte. y. C.. and practising law
there. An aunt, Mrs. Henrietta l.. Evans, lives
in Washington D. c. Copelands brother resides
at Topeka, Kan. Leary's widow is probably
still living In Oberlin. Newly had slave wife
and six children. all born into bondage. They
were sent to New-Orleans and sold there dur
ing the latter half of the war; Union troops
made this family free. one son lives in Kan
City. Mo His brother, Gabriel Newly lives
in Bridgeport. Ohio
AS to the burial places Of those whose
mains are not now at North Elba, Shields Green,
known at Rochester as The Emperor was
hanged on December -. 1859. Learys body Is
supposed to have been eaten and mutilated by
hogs beyond recognition. and left in the Shen-
andoah River. Both cOlored men, Green's
body doubtless turned over to the Win
chester College students for dissecting purposes.
GOV ernOr Wise refused Mrs Rebecca Spring, Of
EnglewOod. y. j.. permission to inter 1t.
The other unknown grave is that of Francis
Jackson Merriam. but il is supposed that he
died in Mexico Of battle wounds. OF the others
Cooks body lies in Greenwood Cemetery bur"1
by his brother-in-law, Robert Crowley. Edwin
COppOc was buried at Salem, Ohio, by his
grandfather and uncles. residents there. The
body of Tidd il buried in Central Massachusetts
at the home of Dr. Cutter, of Worcester, whose
daughter was his afiianced. Barclay COppoc's
body lies in the Soldiers Cemetery on Pilot
Knob Ieavenworth, Kan. John A. Copeland is
buried in Oherlin. where the college people gave
the remains public funeral
THE COLORED LEADER, ANDERSON
Osborn Perry Anderson the coored leader,
after serving in the Union Army. obtained
small clerical position in Washington, where he
died late in 1870. His funeral was attended 10y
Henry Wilson, Frederick Douglass and the
writer among others, and the remains lie in a
cemetery owned by the colOred churches there.
owen Brown lived to enter his sixty seventh
wear and died in 1890 at South Pasadena Cal,
where he is buried. IT is the desire Of Mrs.
Ruth Thompson and the other living members
of the Brown family that their mothers remains
and those OF owen shall be taken to North
Elba also They will he glad indeed TO have all
of the Harper's Ferry men laid at rest in their
historic half acre at the Adirondack homestead.
With owens name the tally is full The
TWENTY-FIVE men made the land shake at least
by their efforts. and certainly verified the die
tum Of John Browns aggressive purpose-"that
the way to destroy slavery was to make slavery
unsafe" The Harper's Ferry raid reduced the
taxable value of Nirginia's chattels by at least
S15 600 900 and the mems souls, with that OF
their leader went marching on until the fields
~ Chattelsm were sOWn with the bitter salt Of
var Old readers CT The Tribune will recall
Edmund Clarence Stedmans ringing lyric Of
November "a 1859 under the title OF ossa-
,vatomie Brown" The last stanZa, which lies
before me In autograph copy had all the keen
ness of poetic insight when 1t declared that the
blood Of John Brown
Like the red gore " the dragon
MAY sprin9 ND venCeful fury, Kissing through
1Our slave worn lands,
And old Brown,
OssaWatomie Brown
NAV trouble you more than ever, when you've
nailed his coffin down!
And most assuredly he did. The simple cere-
nonv and the large audience at North Elba on
August 80 the forty-thrd anniversary Of the
slave border battle Of Ossawatomie, was an