The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-23
FAMILY REUNION
A NOTABLE AFFAIR."
Children From All Parts Of the United
states Gather After Thirty
Years separa-
tion.
HELD NEAR v1NCENNEs
Average Age or Ten Children Is Fifty.
One Years-Pioneer
Family Of the
County.

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One Of the most beautiful and in
teresting family reunions ever held
In Lee county was held at the home
Of the mother, about twelve miles
east OF Keoleik on the farm of the
late Andrew Wyllie. 1t was the re-
union of the family of w. r. and
Amanda T. Brown, consisting Of ten
children coming together from dis
ant parts of the United States after
an absence of thirty years, to forget
for time the cares of life and once
more recall the little medicines Of
their child life.
Time had whitened the hairs of
nearly all OF the children, and those
who had not seen each other for thir
t. years could scarcely recognize each
other. 1t was meeting OF ten gray
haired children with an aged white !
haired mother, the father, w r.
Brown, having passed from this life
thirty-one years ago.
W. r. Brown and Amanda F. Hinson
were united in marriage at Sandusky, |
Lee county, Iowa, sixty-two years ago.
Ten children were born and all are
still living, the average age of which
is fifty-one years. and aside from the
appearance Of gray hairs there is
nothing to indicate that any Of them
have any thought of old age. The
mother Is seventy-eight years of age
and is in good health. She prides her.
self on being able not only to rejoice
over six sons and four daughters but
also of fifty-one grandchildren and
eighteen great grandchildren There
was present at the reunion seventy
three descendants Sixteen chickens
were consumed during the day and
other delicious foods in corresponding
proportion.
Biographical Sketch.
A short biogral hical sketch Of the
family present is. as follows:
Amanda T. Brown, the mother. was
!, In Tennessee March Z, 1885, and
!; married at the age of sixteen, in
Lee county, Iowa.
The Oldest child, p. E. Brown, was
born March 80. 1853, In Scotland coun
ty, Mo. For many years he followed
the trade Of carpenter, but in later
years has devoted his time to farming.
He married early in life the daughter
of Johnathan Webster an old pio-
neer of Clark county, Mo. He owns a
farm near Revere, Mo-, and has nine
children and thirteen grandchildren
Mary A. Brown-Sweet, wife of NJ.
E. Sweet, was born i'll Scotland coun-
ty, Mo-. March Is, 1855. She has one
child, living and one deceased. Mr..
and Mrs Sweet live on their farm
near Vincennes, Iowa.
Mark Brown was born March
1857. He is a farmer and lives near
Hugo, Colorado, where he owns and
farms large tract of land, proving
that the dry lands of that section >can
be made to produce bountiful crops.
He Is authority on dry farming, and
Notwithstanding the fact that he owns
one OF the finest farms in Clark coun,
ty, Mo-, prefers to live in and help to
develop his Colorado farm. He mar
ried daughter of Josiah Cannon an
old pioneer of Clark county, Mo-, and
after the death of his wife's father
bought the old homestead which he
still owns
William Wallace Brown was horr
August 16. 1859, in Lee county. Iowa
and has spent his entire life within
q radius of fifty miles from where he
was born He lives in Kahoka, Mo.
where he has lived for the past thirt!
years He is bricklayer and plas
terer and is at the top Of his trade
R. B. Brown was born Novembe
80, 1861 His home is in Seattle
Washington, having emigrated t,
to that state in 1884. where he ha
ever since resided. He has neve
married and has the distinction o
being the only bachelor Of the family
and the first to go west to grow u
with the country" He is a lawye
by profession, and for twenty year
has given his entire time to his chic:
en- profession in the state of hi
choice.
Flora Brown Martin, wife of Cal
tain g. l.. Martin, of Quincy, ILL.,, wa
born In Lee county, Iowa, on Decen
Der &c, 1863. Captain and Mrs. Mar
in have no children, and live !
Quincy, Ill.
A. J. Brown was born in Lee couI
ty, Iowa, March 8, 1865. He lives ]
Spokane, Wash, where he has live
for twenty-six years. He is col
tractor and builder Of distinction an
ability
Amanda E. Brown-Arnold, wife {
William Arnold, was born March
1868, in Clark county. Mo. She live
on a farm near Revere, Mo-, and
the mother of seven children.
f. NJ. Brown was born in Va
Buren, county, Iowa. June 2, 1871 II
home is in Phoenix, Arizona. He
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