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Note: Information from Lucille Warner via Nancy Zimmerman Dunham: "Lewis Henry Brown was born in Michigan, September 30, 1873. Wilbur Brown told me the following stories about his father Lewis: 'When Lewis was a young man he came from Lenawee County with his father, Sylvester, in a heavy four-wheel buggy pulled by two horses going through the towns of Clare and Harrison. The timber in Roscommon County was so thick sometimes they couldn't see the sun through the pines for two days at a time. A black and tan coon dog, one game cock and hen accompanied them on their journey. When the horses got thirsty they would fill a pail with water from a creek. They would stop now and then to let the horses graze along the trail.' 'Lewis piled lumber in Torch Lake.' 'Lewis played the dulicmer but no one knew it until one day his son, Wilbur, walked in the house and heard him playing. When he discovered Wilbur watching him, that was the end of playing the dulicmer.' Here's an excerpt from the Charlevoix Courier, Wednesday, August 6, 1919 - Ironton: 'Lewis Brown is building a new home.' He was married to Winnifred Mary Greenman, March 1, 1899 at Bellaire. She was born May 17, 1879 in Antrim County. They owned a farm near Ironton. Lewis was noted for his fighting roosters. They had eight children: Forrest J., Eva Mae, Margery Emaline, Wilbur Sylvester, Ernest Leroy, Bessie Belle, Agnes Winnifred Mary, and Percy Lewis Henry. THey moved to East Jordan shortly before his sudden death, January 6, 1953 at the age of 79 of a heart attack. Winnifred died January 14, 1966." --------------------------------- Sources: Other : MI 1900 Census, Vol 14, ED 18, Sheet 6B, Line 51, 6/11/1900
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