Brown Sheldon Abbott

Fred married Abbott Cornelia on 13 Jun 1907 in Syracuse, Onondaga County, NY. Cornelia was born on 21 Apr 1878 in Syracuse, Onondaga County, NY; died on 03 Feb 1920 in Denver, Denver County, CO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The family lived in Romulas, Seneca County, NY during the 1880 Federal census. In 1910, he was living in Geneva, Ontario county, NY where John A. Staysa and wife, Juliett, Emmett's sister lived.

Emmett and his children, Gertrude and Fred, were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Ovid, Seneca co., NY in the 1870s. Aslo listed was a Priscilla Brown. Had he remarried to this woman?

Emmett, age 67, is listed in the 1910 census for Geneva, Ontario County, NY as a widower and worked as a porter at a sanitarium.

In 1920, he is living with his son, Fred H. Brown in Denver, CO.
Erasmus moved from NY to Denver, Colorado and was still living there in 1923 as was stated in his brother, Jeff's obituary.

Emmett married Wilson Jennie Delia on 03 Aug 1870 in Romulas, Seneca County, NY. Jennie was born on 22 Apr 1854 in NY; died in 1885 in Romulus, Seneca County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William went by the name of Henry during his life. He married Elenor Jane Townsend,(known by Jane) dau. of Uriah Townsend of Dresden, Yates County,NY. At the time of his marriage, Henry was living in Cameron, NY according to " The Vital Records of Western New York" There is another birthdate of 2 Feb 1815. I don't know which one is correct.

In a letter written from Cameron, March 15, 1880, Charles Loghry, husband to Juliette Brown, sister to Henry; writes to his son, William Henry Harrison Loghry (Henry,the above's namesake) and mentions 'Uncle Henry', William Henry Harrison Brown.



Cameron, March 15, 1880

Well Henry Loghry it has bin A long time since we have heard from you you dont rite very often and today I thaut that I woud rite you a few lines to let you noe that we are in the land of the living but not very smart this winter I have bin qite poorley this winter and lame not abel to doe my chores nor to cut my wood I am giting old and will soon be out of this world and it wont mater how qick if I am prepard for that day that day will surly come prepared or not Ada and her man is with us this winter and will stay with us this year or that is the talk now if nothing hapens. We have had A very warm winter and noe snow it has bin rather unheathy this winter. A grate many old fokes has dropt off this winter some without one moments warning there are several that has dropt dead seting their chair and it stands us in hand to be ready to meet it if we never meet on this earth less try to meet in heaven your unkel Em Brown* is very poorley this winter he lais A bed the most of the time he haint bin from home in nine years he is nothing but skin and bones.
the rest of the family is well but hard up this winter they had their barn burnd and all their hay and grain and it is touf for them this winter I hurd form you unkel Henry Brown* the other day he is bad off he dont noe hardly any thing and the man told me that they had lost ther property he thout it was all used up they sold out but dident saave mutch
that is bad to loes his senses and property to
times is beter this spring that it has bin for sevel years past money is plenty and proptery is chang hands and things looks beter now than they have for some time
Wheat is 140 rie 90 corn 65 oats 50 potatoes 40 Apels from 50 to 65
hay is from $10 to $12 tone
give my best Respects to all the frends and tell them that I would (like) to see them very much I would like to see you and your wife today and have you hear
tell Juliaette* to rite to us I will rite to her before long now Henry rite soon as you git this and till us how you are giting A long

from your father
(signed)
Charles Loghry

* 1. unkel Henry Brown is William Henry Harrison Brown, brother to Juliette, Charles first wife.
2. Juliaette is Charles'granddaughter by William Henry Harrison Loghry and Elizabeth Williams.

At the time the 1870 Federal Census was taken for Torrey, Yates County, it shows that William and Jane were living next door to Wright Brown, Jr., his uncle.

William went by the name of Henry during his life. He married Elenor Jane Townsend,(known by Jane) dau. of Uriah Townsend of Dresden, Yates County,NY. At the time of his marriage, Henry was living in Cameron, NY according to " The Vital Records of Western New York"

William and Jane lived next door to Wright Brown, Jr. and his wife, Emily in Torrey in 1870.

In another data base on Ancestry.com he is listed as being born on 2 Feb. 1815 in Auburn, Cayuga Co., NY.

William married Townsend Elenor Jane on 19 Jan 1840 in Milo, Yates Co, NY. Elenor was born on 27 Nov 1817 in Romulus, Seneca County, NY; died on 23 Nov 1890 in Gorham, Ontario County, NY; was buried in City Hill Cemetery, Torrey, Yates Co., NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elenor Jane, known as "Jane", is buried in City Hill Cemetery, Dresden, Yates
County, NY next to her husband, William "Henry" Harrison Brown, her son, John and Charles Volney; her brothr-in-law and her mother-in -law, Eunice M. Annable Brown.

Jane's father and mother's plot (Uriah and Fanny Townsend) adjoins the W. H Brown plot. Several of her children, Adelaide and Albert H. Brown, are buried in the Townsend plot.

Elenor Jane, known as "Jane", is buried in City Hill Cemetery, Dresden, Yates County, NY next to her husband, William "Henry" Harrison Brown, her son, John V. and Charles Volney, her brothr-in-law and her mother-in -law, Eunice Ette Annable Brown.

Jane's father and mother's plot (Uriah and Fanny Townsend) adjoins the W. H Brown plot. Several of her children, Adelaide and Albert H. Brown, are buried in the Townsend plot.

Jane was living with her daughter, Juliette Brown Staysa in Gorham, Ontario county, NY when she died.