The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-01

to as examples. Wealthy C. Brown. widow
of the late John Brown. jr.. lives at their
dusky bay, Ohio. / believe their daughter
Is married. and children of the second gen.
eraticn are in that pleasant home
OF the others, / have SO far kept trace
of the former widow of John K. Cook. who
lives in Chicago, with her son and daughter
by the second marriage. Cooks son lives IN
Connecticut, d provision dealer in one OF
its busiest cities. One sister of Cook lives
in New York city-a rich widow. Another,
unmarried, resides on the family homestead
at Haddam. Conn. Stevens elder brother
still lives at Brookline, Mass. Professor o.
G. Libby, holding the chair of history in
the naob State University T Of Wisconsin sDd absre is are a
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. A brother of Jeremiah. Ander-
son lives at Monterey, CAL. and a nephew,
DIR. Z. K. Westfall, lives at Bushnell, Ill.
There was an elder brother and family in
southern Kansas. Kagi's father and sister
lived there also, and the latter is, I be-
lieve, still alive. A half sister of Merriam
resides in Providence, r. l., and Mrs. s.
H. Brandt, a sister of Leeman, lives in
Charlestown. Mass. William Thompson's
Michigan. Isabella Thompson, a sister of
Henry. William and Dauphin. married Wat
son Brown. Four years after his death she
was remarked to a cousin, Salmon Brown,
a prosperous farmer in Wisconsin, where
she still lives. Watson's son died in his
1Ourtn year.
COLORED MEMBERS OF THE BAND
AS to the colored men, nothing is known
of Anderson's parents and brothers. They
lived in Pennsylvania, and were very un-
kind. When he was fleeing for his life they.
in their fright, refused him assistance. Will
liam Sheridan Leary, as his brother writes
it, has a brother living in Charlotte, N. c..
and practicing law there. An aunt. Mrs.
N--- H.
ID. c. Copeland's brother resides at Topeka,
Kan. Leary's widow is probably still living
in Oberlin. Newly had a slave wife and six
children, all born into bondage. They were
the latter half of the war; Union troops
made this family free. One son lives in
Kansas City. Mo. His brother, Gabriel
Newly, lives in Bridgeport, o.
AS to the burial places of those whose re-
mains are not now at North Elba Shields
Green, known at Rochester as The En-
body is supposed TO have been eaten and
mutilated by hogs beyond recognition and
colored men. Green's body was doubtless
turned over to the Winchester College stu
dents for dissecting purposes. Governor
glewood, n. j., permission to inter it. The
other unknown grave is that of Francis
jackson Merriam. but it is supposed that
the others Cooks body lies in Greenwood
Cemetery. buried by his brother-in-law
INODtTl 1TOWiey. EQWln COppOC was DuTleO
uncles, residents there. The body of Tidd
Is buried in GENITAL Massachusetts at the
home of DR.. Cutter, of Worcester, whose
daughter was his affanced. Barclay Cop
pocs body lies in the soldiers cemetery on
PILOT Knob. Leavenworth, Kan. John A.
Copeland is buried in Oberlin, where the
college, people gave the remains a public
funeral.
THE COLORED LEADER, ANDERSON.
Osborn Perry Anderson, the colored leader,
after serving in the Union army, obtained
a small clerical position in Washington,
where he died late in 1870. His funeral was
attended by Henry Wilson, Frederick Doug
lass and the writer, among others, and the
remains lie in a cemetery owned by the COL
ored churches there.
owen Brown lived to enter mis- sixty-sev-
enth year. and died in 1890 at South Pasa-
dena, Cal, where he is buried. 1t is the de-
sire of Mrs. Ruth Thompson and the other
living members of the Brown family that
their mothers remains and those of Owen
will be glad indeed to have all of the
Harpers Ferry men laid at rest in their
Prehlstorie half acre at the Adirondack
With OWENS name the tally is full. The
twenty-five men made the land shake at
least by their efforts, and certainly verified
the dlctum OF John Browns aggressive pur-
pose, that the way to destroy slavery was
TO make slavery unsafe" The Harper's
Eery. raid reduced the taxable value of
virginia's chattels by at least $15, 600, 900 and
the mems souls, with that of their leader,
went marching on" until the fields of
cnattelism were sown with the bitter salt
of war. Old readers of the Tribune will
recall Edmund Clarence Stedman's ringing
lyric of Nov. "a, 1859, under the title of
"Ossawatomie Brown" The last stanza-
which lies before me in autograph COPY.
had all the keenness of poetic insight when
1t declared that the blood of John Brown
Like the red gore of the dragon
May spring up a vengeful fury. Kissing
through your slave-worn lands,
And old Brown,
OSSawatomie Brown,
May trouble you more than ever, when
you've nailed his coffin down."
And most assuredly he did. The simple
ceremony and the large audience at North
Elba on Aug. 80, the forty-third anniversary
of the slave border battle of Ossawatomie.
was in striking proof thereof.