Thomas Dunlop BROWN
Birth:
16 Dec 1807
Stewarton, Ayr, Scotland
Death:
20 Mar 1874
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Marriage:
19 Oct 1855
Cedar City, Iron, Utah
Father:
Mother:
Sources:
New.familysearch.org, Dec 2012
Public Member Tree (Ancestry.com)
Utah Death Registers
Find A Grave Memorial
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Utah Death Registers
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Notes:
Juanita Brooks: Journal of the Southern Indian Mission p. 139-42
B: Brooks p.101 quoting T. D. Brown journal
B: The Stewarton Parish Printout does not have the birth record for Thomas D. Brown. This is inexplicable. The Registration of Baptisms of the Parish Kirk of Stewartown from Anno Domini 1747 clearly shows Brown, Thomas son to James Brown weaver in town and Agnes Dunlop his spouse.FHL 1041470.
Excom: 23 Dec 1859 for apostacy and writing anonymous letters
Rebapt: 9 Jan 1862. No place or source.
Excom again: before 1866.
The sealing to Mary Lucretia Willis was cancelled 7 Apr 1920 by Heber J. Grant. No record was found. She was sealed to Samuel Elisha Groves 10 Oct 1865 EH. Brown's blessings were restored 7 April 1920. Thomas D. Brown was resealed to Mary Lucretia Willis 13 Apr 1920. Information from Special Information Section 9 Nov 1992.
Mary Lucretia WILLIS was sealed again 4 Sep 1973 SL (Geraldine Brown Sagers: Cynthia Louise Berry Brown p. 10)
SS: EH sealings p. 54 GS 183374 to Mary Lucretia Willis at Cedar City by Erastus Snow by prior approval of Brigham Young.
Residence: Block 69, plat A, lot 3
ss: Sarah Godwin 19 Oct 1852 Other. what is other?
SS: Sarah Godwin 22 April 1856 EHOUS sealings Book B. p. 79 GS183394. This was second annointing?
End: EH endowments 15 Oct 1852 p. 56 GS 183393
IGI has Birth of Thomas D. Brown, son of Thomas D. Brown and Ester Wardell b. 28 Aug 1865 Sugar House, SLC. This refers to Thomas Daniel Brown (the imposter) and is not ancestral.
D: Salt Lake Tribune March 21, 22 and 24, 1874.
D: Salt Lake Death Records, FHL 26553. Thomas D. Brown #6213, p. 156 14th ward. Son of James Galt and Agnes. b. 16 Dec 1807, Stewarton, Ayrshire, Scotland. D. 20 May 1874 of gastric fever. Interred in D 9 14 platt 61.
Bur: Salt Lake Cem Rec 979.225 S1 V3s p.172
Bur: Photo of headstone, Salt Lake City Cemetery "A Man of fearless integrity." Also buried there is Orson Smith Sherratt. died 1852 age 3 years. Sextons record says he was born 18 Dec 1850 in Iowa. Died 8 Nov 1852 Salt Lake City. The location of the plot is D-9-14-SOROD
MD: Certificate No. 190, Oct 18, 1839, Liverpool.
Census 1870. SLC 14th Ward No. 659
Probate stuff for Salt Lake City is in Utah Valley FHL on the newspaper shelves under 3rd District Court Probate Cases.
Map of downtown Brown property is in map case at SLFHL 979.225/S1 E7 man
Juanita Brooks: Journal of the Southern Indian Mission p. 139-42
B: Brooks p.101 quoting T. D. Brown journal
B: The Stewarton Parish Printout does not have the birth record for Thomas D. Brown. This is inexplicable. The Registration of Baptisms of the Parish Kirk of Stewartown from Anno Domini 1747 clearly shows Brown, Thomas son to James Brown weaver in town and Agnes Dunlop his spouse.FHL 1041470.
Excom: 23 Dec 1859 for apostacy and writing anonymous letters
Rebapt: 9 Jan 1862. No place or source.
Excom: again before 1866. Sealing to Mary Lucretia Willis was cancelled 7 Apr 1920 by Heber J. Grant. No record was found. She was sealed to Samuel Elisha GROVES 10 Oct 1865 EH. Thomas D. Brown was resealed to Mary Lucretia Willis 13 Apr 1920. Information from Special Information Section 9 Nov 1992.
Mary Lucretia WILLIS was sealed again 4 Sep 1973 SL (Geraldine Brown Sagers: Cynthia Louise Berry Brown p. 10)
SS: EH sealings p. 54 GS 183374 to Mary Lucretia Willis at Cedar City by Erastus Snow by prior approval of Brigham Young.
Residence: Block 69, plat A, lot 3
SS: Sarah Godwin EH sealings Book B. p. 79 GS183394
End: EH endowments 15 Oct 1852 p. 56 GS 183393
IGI has Birth of Thomas D. Brown, son of Thomas D. Brown and Ester Wardell b. 28 Aug 1865 Sugar House, SLC. This refers to Thomas Daniel Brown 9the imposter) and is not ancestral.
D: Salt Lake Tribune March 21, 22 and 24, 1874.
Bur: Salt Lake Cem Rec 979.225 S1 V3s p.172 Additonal AFN: 92V2-43
Bur: Photo of headstone, Salt Lake City Cemetery "A Man of fearless integrity." Also buried there is Orson Smith Sherratt. died 1852 age 3 years. Sextons record says he was born 18 Dec 1850 in Iowa. Died 8 Nov 1852 Salt Lake City. The location of the plot is D-9-14-SOROD
MD: Certificate No. 190, Oct 18, 1839, Liverpool.
Census 1870. SLC 14th Ward No. 659
Probate stuff for Salt Lake City is in Utah Valley FHL on the newspaper shelves under 3rd District Court Probate Cases.
Mary Lucretia WILLIS
Birth:
18 Mar 1837
McLeansboro, Hamilton, Illinois
Death:
11 Mar 1912
Kanarra, Iron, Utah
Father:
Mother:
Sources:
1900 Census Kannara, Iron, Utah
Notes:
Mary Lucretia WILLIS left T. D. BROWN after one of his excommunications according to family lore.
Md: 2) IGI has two entries. #1 Marriage at Cedar City 10 Oct 1863 to Elisha Samuel Groves. #2 Sealing at Endowment House, Salt Lake 10 Oct 1965. Endowment House Sealings, book D p. 517
Mary Lucretia Willis BROWN and son John William BROWN were found living at the Salt Lake Home of Thomas D. BROWN July 1860 (1860 census).
D: Parowan Stake Record of Deaths 1912. Says died 11 Mar 1912 of stomach disorder
D: Kanarraville Headstones "Pioneer Mother" Mary Lucretia Willis Brown, March
18, 1837 to Mar 11, 1912. The Kanarraville cemetery has five headstones of her Groves children near Mary Lucretia Willis.
She was rebaptised Oct 19, 1874. Confirmed by W. S. Berry.
Family records had an endowment date of 10 May 1855. This would be before she was sealed to Thomas D. Brown. The Endowment House records do not confirm this date. The endownment record is at the date of her sealing to Samuel Elisha Groves.
Children
Marriage
1
Mary Emily BROWN
Birth:
18 Oct 1856
Cedar City, Iron, Utah
Death:
20 Oct 1857
Cedar City, Iron, Utah
Marr:
Notes:
D: date unverified. Brooks says died at age six weeks. Family records have
20 Oct 1859, but Mary had moved to Kaysville by then. Special Information
Section FGS has 20 Oct 1857.
2
Birth:
2 Nov 1858
Kaysville, Davis, Utah
Death:
3 Nov 1926
St. Johns, Apache, Arizona
Notes:
SS: Special Information Section FGS says first sealing was 30 May 1879.
Kanarra Ward Record #130 GS26049
1880 Census, residing in Parowan.
John W. Brown succeeded William David Rencher as 2nd Councilor of St. Johns Stake in 1915.
3
Birth:
17 Oct 1860
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Death:
9 Apr 1906
Deer Lodge, Pioche, Lincoln, Nevada
Notes:
AKA: Francis Elonzo BROWN.
SP: Sealing performed because his father, Thomas D. Brown was excommunicated at the time of his birth.
Res: 1880 Census Parowan, Iron, Utah
D: Anc Files says death place was Deer Lodge, Lincoln, Nevada. Tombstone says death was 9 Apr 1906.
Kanarra Ward Record #131 GS26049.
Probate: Says death was 9 Apr 1906. Fay, Lincoln, Nevada.
Pioche Record or Lincoln County Record is available at UNLV library, no where else.
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Thomas Dunlop Brown - Mary Lucretia Willis
Thomas Dunlop Brown
was born at Stewarton, Ayr, Scotland 16 Dec 1807.
His parents were James Galt Brown and Agnes Johnston Dunlap.
He married Mary Lucretia Willis 19 Oct 1855 at Cedar City, Iron, Utah . Mary Lucretia Willis was born at McLeansboro, Hamilton, Illinois 18 Mar 1837 daughter of William Wesley Willis and Margaret Jane Willis .
They were the parents of 3
children:
Mary Emily Brown
born 18 Oct 1856.
John William Brown
born 2 Nov 1858.
Francis Elonzo Brown
born 17 Oct 1860.
Thomas Dunlop Brown died 20 Mar 1874 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah .
Mary Lucretia Willis died 11 Mar 1912 at Kanarra, Iron, Utah .