| Name |
William Monroe Brown |
| Birth |
2 April 1869, Gaston Co, NC15,14,57 |
| Census |
26 June 1900, Cherryville, Gaston Co,
NC51, ED 74, SD 8,
Sheet 20-A, dwelling 346, family 348 |
| Census |
8 April 1930, White's Twp, Bertie Co,
NC248 |
| Death |
27 October 1951, Cherryville, Gaston
Co, NC57 |
| Burial |
1 November 1951, Cherryville, Gaston
Co, NC57, St. John's Lutheran Church |
| Occupation |
carpenter (wagon repair),
farmer51, ED 74, SD
8, Sheet 20-A, dwelling 346, family
348 |
| Father |
Robert
Gilbreath Brown (1839-1939) |
| Mother |
Susan L.
Froneberger (1841-1934) |
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| Notes for William Monroe Brown |
Willie lost his hearing as a small child,
probably due to meningitis. As a teen he attended the North
Carolina School for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind in Raleigh,
North Carolina41. Supposedly he met his
wife Minnie, who was also deaf, through a travelling
preacher, who "fixed them up".
After his wife died due to complications from childbirth he
moved back home with his parents50, ED 53, SD 91, Sheet 2-A, dwelling
5, family 6. His unmarried sisters Emma and
Clemmie basically raised his four children, especially Bill
who was only three weeks old when Minnie died.
He remarried in 1923 after his children were mostly grown,
and had three more children with his second wife Cora. Cora
was considerably younger than Willie. He lived in Bertie
County for a time and farmed there248. Possibly because of
his deafness, in his later years he became somewhat
fanatical and religious.
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