Ohio

Towns of :  Canton - New Berlin / North Canton - Wooster
Counties of:  Stark - Wayne - Columbiana

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Brown Family in Ohio

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1. Merrills, Hawleys & Browns  (c.1915)
2. The Young & Brown families - About 1909
3. The Brown children, c. 1910
4. Will L. Brown family at Meyers lake, August 1911
5. New Berlin Freshmen, including Terry Brown - 21-FEB-1911
6. Terry Brown at age 21, 21-OCT-1916
7. Group of soldiers from World War I including Terry Brown
8. Marion Brown and her mother Maude - 1919
9. Brown family and friends at Lake-O-Springs, 1923
10. Will L. Brown, 'playing' muscle man
11. The Brown's and Moreheads at the Niagara River, circa 1948.
12. Ruth Brown (nee Kimble) and Pauline Brown ,1923
13. Ruth Brown (nee Kimble) and Pauline Brown, Winter 1923
14. Ruth, Pauline and Marion posing as the 'No Evil' triplets, 1924
15. Will L. Brown with cane and pipe
16. Will Lincoln Brown, with pipe and cane, 1955
17. Will L. Brown Family, c. 1928
18. Terry Brown and Car
19. Fun Fotos of Pauline, Marion & Terry Brown plus Two Spouses
20. Terry Brown - 1954

Some of the Merrills, Hawleys & Browns.  L to R: (1) Della Merrill (nee Hawley) and (2) Alva Merrill, (3) Agnes S. Brown, (4) Net (Nettie) L. Hayward (nee Hawley and previous marriage Titus), (5) Nina (Anirah Agnes) Morehead (nee Hayward), (6) Maude Brown (nee Jeffrey), and (7) Marion Brown (later Erbland) (c.1915)  Agnes was the sister of Will Brown, the daughter-in-law of Maude Brown and the Aunt of Marion Brown. Net Hawley was married to Stephen Titus in 1880 and to A. Jay Hayward in 1907.

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The Young and Brown families - Back Row: Charles Young, Albert Young, Will Brown.  Middle Row: Pauline Young, Terry Brown, Marion Brown, Maude Brown (nee Jeffrey), Pauline Brown  Front Row: Mildred Young, Irvin Young, Kingsley Brown   The Young's were neighbours and good friends of the Browns.  This photo was taken about 1909 and was printed on a postcard that was never mailed.
 
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Children of Will & Maude Brown, circa 1910. L to R: Kingsley, Marion, Pauline and Terry.

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Will L. Brown family at Meyers Lake park, Jackson Twp, Stark County, Ohio in August 1911. Front Row L to R: Pauline, Marion, Will and Kingsley. Back Row L to R: Maude and Terry.  Terry later became an enthusiastic amateur photographer and enjoyed taking slides of his travels as well as 3D transparencies. A copy of one of his 3D photos is presented here in a format for free viewing in parallel eye mode and as a grayscale anaglyph.

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"T B -  New Berlin Freshmen, Feb. 21, 1911" is written on the reverse side of the source photograph. The initials "T B -" stand for Terry Brown, who is in this image. Terry Brown was born 6-MAY-1895, which would have made him 15 years of age on this date in 1911.  Terry is the boy near the center of the photo, just below and to the left (facing the picture) of a boy in a dark high-necked sweater.  The boy in the sweater is standing a little distance above the left shoulder of Terry.  Compare Terry in this image with Terry in the above photo, taken 7 months later, in August 1911.  It appears that he may be wearing the same suit.

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Terry Will Brown, son of Will L Brown and Maude Jeffrey is shown here at age 21 years. On the back of the source photo is written "Terry 21 Oct 1916". Judging from the background, this photo appears to have been taken at the Brown home in Jackson Twp., Stark County, Ohio. It was probably just before Terry departed to join the Army, where he was a cook, serving in France during WWI.

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This group of soldiers from World War I includes Terry Will Brown at the lower left.  The source photo is not marked and the identity of the other soldiers is not known.

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Marion Brown (right) and her mother Maude (left) at Lake-O-Springs on April 6, 1919.

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The Brown family at Lake-O-Springs in 1923.  This photo is in a scrapbook that Terry Brown gave to his wife Ruth Brown (nee Kimble) on their 25th anniversary, June 10, 1947.  L to R: Unknown, Kingsley Brown, Will Brown, Maude Brown (nee Jeffrey), Marion Brown, Ruth Brown (nee Kimble), Pauline Brown and Unknown. The two "unknowns" are not part of the Brown family.  There is some thought that the man on the right may be Russ Rudy, the teacher at Roush School but this is far from certain.

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Will L. Brown posing as a 'muscle man'.  According to Will's daughter, Marion, as told to her son, Mardon (the webmaster), Will was just 'fooling around' in this picture and posing as a muscle man.

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The Erblands and Moreheads visited the Niagara river circa 1948.  L to R is Marion Arline Erbland (nee Brown), Donna Erbland, Sam Morehead, Nina (Anirah Agnes) Morehead (nee Hayward), Marsha Erbland and Mardon Erbland. Marion and Nina were 1st cousins. Marion Arline Erbland's father (Will Brown) and Nina's mother (Marion Alice Brown) were brother and sister.  This photograph is taken on the American side of the Niagara River near the Whirlpool.  The Whirlpool Bridge can be seen in the background.

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L to R: Terry Brown's wife, Ruth Brown (nee Kimble), and Pauline Brown. at the Brown home at Lake-O-Springs, Jackson Twp, Stark County, Ohio, 1923.

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Pauline Brown and Ruth Brown (nee Kimble) (L to R).  Photo taken at the Will Brown family home at Lake-O-Springs, Jackson Twp, Stark County, Ohio in 1923.  Ruth married Terry Brown, Pauline's brother.  Notice the ice skates.

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Ruth Brown (nee Kimble), Pauline Brown and Marion Brown posing as "Speak No Evil, See No Evil and Hear No Evil".  Photo taken in 1924, almost certainly at Lake-O-Springs.  The photo was hand-tinted by Ruth's husband, Terry Brown.

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Will Lincoln Brown (b.22-SEP-1863 d.8-OCT-1959) was known as "Papa" by the grandchildren. The "Oh hell!" was probably written on this photo by "Papa". It would have been 'in tune' with his personality to have done so.

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Will Lincoln Brown is shown in this photo from around February, 1955, with his two favourite 'companions': one of his pipes and one of his 'home-made' walking canes.  This photo is very typical of how Will Brown looked in his later years.

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The Will L. Brown Family. L to R: Terry Brown, Ruth Brown (nee Kimble) Maude Brown, Will Brown, Kingsley Brown, Marion Brown, Pauline Brown. This photo was taken at the Brown home at Lake-O-Springs, Jackson Twp., Stark County, Ohio. It was probably taken about 1928.

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Terry Will Brown (b. 6-MAY-1895, d. 30-AUG-1966). Date of the source photo is unknown. On the reverse side of the source photo is written, "-Turkey Eater -", probably in Terry's handwriting.  Was this perhaps a Thanksgiving Day photo?

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'Fun Fotos' were all taken on the same day at the same location.  The first one is Pauline Kolp (nee Brown) & Marion Erbland (nee Brown). Marion is wearing the hat.  Below that is Ruth and Terry Brown.  They were married 10-JUN-1922. Ruth lived at the Fairmount Children's Home on what is now Union Ave. NE in Washington Twp., Stark County, until age five, when she went to live with the Kimble family from Pennsylvania. She was then known as Ruth Kimble until she married Terry. The image on the right is Donald Erbland, husband of Marion.

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Terry Will Brown 1954, preparing for one of his ‘artefact hunting’ expeditions. Terry and his friends used to use home-made metal detectors (before such things were commercially available) to locate and recover old military artifacts such as canon balls. He also used to hunt for and collect arrowheads. This was all done in the years before it was realized that this sort of thing should be the prevue of professional archaeologists, with government control on the artefacts.

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