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Surnames: BROWN/WHEELER from Ohio and Indiana
Classification: Query
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Looking for someone who might recognized this family in Grant County, Mills Township from
1900>
1900:
son-in-law of T.F. Whee;ler in Indiana, Grant aCounty:
Series: T623 Roll: 373 Page: 6
Surname GivenName Age Sex Race Birthplace State County Location Year BROWN
LEANDER 34 M W IN IN GRANT CENTER TWP 1900, Sheet 6B, ED #24, Sup. Dist 11; Hiram
Andrew; Center Township, 14th June, 1900
If this is the correct Brown listed as the Brother-in-law of T.F. Wheeler in the article
copy on T.F. Wheeler’ s accident in 1903, the only female in the home is named Susanna age
?? born in December and a widow with 14 children and 11 living. She was born in Ohio.
This Leander Brown is listed as single and born in 1866, age 34 , b. in Indiana of Ohio
parents. He is a farmer. T.F. Wheeler was to have fallen from a scaffold while helping
his son-in-law, Leander Brown, with work on a barn.
Leander Brown Sr. lives in Clay Township and in another county; HAMILTON County.
1910 Census, Mill TWP., Grant County, Indiana
Series: T624 Roll: 351 Page: 5 \27th April, 1910; Sup. D. #11, ED#68, Sheet 5, last line
(#50) of Sheet 5A; cont. sheet 5B
Enumerator: Elmer E. Heal
Brown, Leander/44/married 9 years. Indiana/VA/Indiana/farmer/general farm.
Next page: (in Grant County Infirmary)
Elsie M./wife/30 married 9 years/ 6 children and 6 living/OH/OH/OH
CHILDREN:
Samuel T./son/7/Indiana/OH/OH
Josephine M.daughter/7/Indiana/OH/OH
Crystal F./daughter/4/IN/OH/OH
Harry H/son/3/IN/OH/OH
Jennie G./daughter/2/s/IN/OH/OH
James H/son/8/12th/IN/OH/OH