"Ray Brown" <[email protected]> wrote: > Reprinted from the April 21, 2007 edition of The Joplin Globe... > > Charles William "Charlie" Brown Sr., age 74, of Joplin, passed > away at > the home of a daughter Thursday, April 19. > > Born Oct. 8, 1932, in Jasper, MO, he was the only child of the late > Charles E. Brown and Margaret Underwood Schreiner. He was raised > and lived in Joplin until 1948. He lived many years in the Panama > Canal > Zone and was a management analyst for the Panama Canal Locks Division. > He retired to Joplin in 1981. He attended St Paul's United > Methodist Church > and was a member of Joplin elk's Lodge Number 501. > > Survivors include a son, Charles W. Brown Jr. of Joplin, two > daughters, > Teresa A. Jenkins and husband, Jerry, of Joplin, and Dianne Vilani and > husband, Michael, of Rockford, Ill, 4 granddaughters and 7 great- > grandchildren. Ray, You don't say whether you have a connection to this line, but I have interest in some other Joplin Browns, notably those that can trace their lines back to Jacob F. Brown in Fort Scott, Kansas. Jacob married Martha Anne Capps 4 apr 1879, and they had had six children: Jasper N John R. Ada Mae (my grandmother) Harrison Benjamin Thomas Jefferson Gus M. I have contacted the descendants of part of Harrison's family in Joplin, but I've lost the trail of a couple of the other lines. If you have a connection, I'd like to hear from you. Peace, Bud Simpson - Kansas City, MO www.budzilla.com www.northeastnews.net/flyover www.roots.budzilla It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought. – John Kenneth Galbraith