Person:William Brown (638)

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Name William Brown
Alt Name William James Brown
Gender Male
Birth[1] 30 Dec 1743 Culpeper County, Virginia
Marriage Bef 1795 to Elizabeth Duddleson
Death[1] 1829 Putnamville, Putnam County, Indiana
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  1. 1.0 1.1 Find A Grave.

    William James Brown
    Birth 30 Dec 1743
    Culpeper County, Virginia, USA
    Death 1829 (aged 85–86)
    Putnamville, Putnam County, Indiana, USA
    Burial: Putnamville Cemetery
    Putnamville, Putnam County, Indiana, USA

    Elizabeth and William Brown had 9 children Sarah, Fanny, Samuel Thomas, Bentley James, Mary, Matilda. Harriet

    I believe William may have been married before Elizabeth
    William was 24 years older then Elizabeth by the dates

    William was married in Virginia and migrated to Garrard County, Kentucky about 1805/1806. From there he moved to Warren Township, Putnam County, Indiana in about 1827

    In 1970 William Brown and wife, Elizabeth, were removed from a small burial site on his farm property located in the W1/2 of the NE1/4 of Section 6 T13N R4W in Warren Township, Putnam County, Indiana. They were reburied in the Putnamville Cemetery, Putnamville. On the certificate allowing for the reburial, it stated that he died in 1829 at age 86

    William Brown is memorialized on a bronze plaque in the Greencastle, IN courthouse

    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11205386/william-james-brown