Turner County, SD Biographies.....Brown, R. P. August 2, 1829 - July 1896
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

R. P. BROWN, deceased, formerly a resident of Parker township, Turner county, where
he was engaged in farming, was a native of Canada, and was born near London, August
2, 1829. When he attained the age of seventeen years he came to Illinois, and
settled near Elgin on a farm, and there he was married September 28, 1850, to Miss
Lydia J. Collins, by which union he was the parent of seven children, five sons and
two daughters, viz.: Frank L., Charles E., Marian A., Addie C., Nathan C., Fred R.
and George H. Mrs. Brown died in July, 1879, and he was subsequently married to Mrs.
M. J. Wright, the widow of Thomas Wright, after which he continued to reside in
South Elgin, Ill. In September, 1886, he came with his family to Turner county,
Dak., and located where Mrs. Brown now lives, He was a Republican in politics up to
within twelve or fourteen years of his demise, when he joined the Prohibition party.
Religiously, he was a member of the Free Methodist church, which denomination he
joined when it was first organized, and also assisted in erecting the first Free
Methodist church building ever built. He passed to his reward beyond the grave in
July, 1896.

Mrs. Brown, his widow, who survives him, was born in Greenbriar county, W. Va.,
October 3, 1844. She was a daughter of Michael and Sarah (Thompson) Shaver, both of
whom were natives of West Virginia. The latter now lives with her daughter, our
subject, in Turner county. Mrs. Brown accompanied her parents to Illinois, when
about five years of age, and seven years later her father died there, leaving a
family of seven children, the eldest of whom was but fourteen years old. She was
twelve years of age, and assisted materially in the support of the family in
connection with her elder brother, who, although a cripple, was nevertheless able to
do quite a little toward the support of his brothers and sisters. She taught school
most of the time, which occupation she followed off and on for a period of ten
years. Her first marriage occurred April 5, 1876, Mr. Thomas Wright being the groom.
He died December 15, 1877, and she returned to the occupation of teaching. In 18S0
she went to Nebraska to take a school, and was there married in Thayer county,
November 16th of the same year, to Mr. Brown. With him she returned to and located
at South Elgin, Ill., as above stated. They were blessed with one son, Elmer J.
Brown, who was born in Illinois, July 31, 1886.

Mrs. Brown is the owner of 160 acres of land, which she rents, and is a member of
the Free Methodist church, in which she has been an active worker, and is now a
class leader. She is president of the W. C. T. U., and was also a member of that
organization while a resident of South Elgin, which accomplished such noble work in
the cause at that place.


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