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Surnames: BROWN, SPARKS
Classification: Query
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I will be coming to Wells County this summer in the hope that I might find the death date
and burial place of Thomas Brown. Thomas Brown was born about 1809 in North Carolina and
lived in Rock Creek Township, Wells County, since 1840. He died between the time of the
1870 and 1880 censuses; in 1881 his farm belongs to his wife Lydia Sparks Brown. This was
70 acres in Section 3, Rock Creek Township. I have been unable to locate a burial site
for him using transcriptions. (Neither do I know where his wife Lydia is buried, or
exactly when she died, although it was after 1881.) Lydia's father George Sparks is
buried in McFadden Cemetery. (She may have died at her son's home in Huntington Co.)
Since I see that Wells Co. death records begin in 1883, does anyone have any advice for
me searching the wills and deed records?