Beckwith, H. W. History of Fountain County, Indiana. Chicago: HH Hill,
1881, p. 450 451
Joseph Brown, farmer, Attica, was the fourth
child in a family of ten children, by Michael and
Hester (Lutz) Brown, and was born in Wythe
county, Virginia, July 19, 1804. His grandfather,
Andrew Brown, was a soldier in the war of the
revolution. In 1815 his father emigrated to
Warren county, Ohio, and settled with his family
near Lebanon. On February 27, 1827, Mr. Brown was
married to Lucy Johnson. In 1829 he came west,
and stopped in Tippecanoe county until the
following season, when he moved to Fountain
county, and bought and improved the eighty acres
of land on which he now lives, in Davis township.
This is E. 1/2 of S.E.1/4 Sec. 32, T. 22, R 6.
Subsequently he made additions to his farm. In
1832, owing to the low state of his wifes
health, and in compliance to importunities of
relations, he went back to Ohio with his wife,
where she died in three weeks and three days
after their arrival, her death occurring October
18. He remained there two years, but prior to his
return was married to Sarah Camblin. This event
took place January 5, 1834, and the next fall
they came to their home in Indiana. By his first
wife Mr. Brown had two sons and one daughter, as
follows: William, Hester Ann, wife of Nelson
Cavitt, of Iroquois county, Illinois; and James
J., an interesting child which was living with
his grandparents in Ohio, and died there in its
third or fourth year. His second wife was the
mother of three sons and three daughters: Mary
Eleanor, Michael, Lucy Jane, Sarah, Joseph, and
George C. All but Lucy Jane died in infancy. She
married William Thomas Dickerson, who enlisted
September 12, 1861, in Co. K, 33rd Ind. Vols.,
and served to the end of the war. He was captured
and confined four months in Libby prison, and
then exchanged. He reenlisted as a veteran
volunteer, and was mustered as such March 9,
1864. He served on the Atlanta campaign, the
march to the sea, and the campaign of the
Carolinas, doing duty continuously, until at the
battle of Bentonville he received a very severe
wound in his lower jaw. This seriously impaired
his health, and was instrumental in producing his
death, which occurred November 9, 1877. His last
muster out from the military service was on June
26, 1865. Mr. Browns second wife died February
14, 1865. He married again August 2, 1866, Louisa
J. Dickerson, who died Monday, December 2, 1878.
Mr. Brown at one time owned 336 acres of land,
but he has given to his children and reduced his
estate to 200, nearly all of which is under
cultivation and in a good state of improvement.
He cleared about 100 acres. The only democratic
vote he ever cast was for Gen. Jackson for
president in 1828. As the next election he voted
with the Clay men, and after that, whig party
having assumed a definite organization, he acted
with that until it was superseded by the
republican. He has belonged to the latter since.
For fifty years he has been a devout Christian
and faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal
church. He has acceptably filled the office of
class-leader, steward, and church trustee. Uncle
Joe, as he is reverently called by everyone, is
indeed a father in Israel, whose pious life will
long be remembered as a sweet savor of good
things. His last two wives were communicants in the same church.
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