This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BROWN/GERTH/DAY/MISHLER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GMB.2ACE/606 Message Board Post: The following is all the information I have on CHARLES W. BROWN. Trying to find information on him...anything! This is his wife's obituary from the Elkhorn Independent, April 20, 1916, Elkhorn, (Walworth County) WI. Death of Mary E. Brown Mrs. Mary Eleanor Brown, who recently moved to the Howard Mills farm south of town with her children, died April 13, after a short illness. Mrs. Brown was born in Woodford County, Illinois, April 24, 1842. In 1860 she was married Kansas City, Missouri to Charles W. Brown, who died seven years ago. To them were born six children, three of whom died in infancy and early childhood. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Alice Mishler, and two sons, C. A. and G. W. Brown, all of this city. (My note: Charles Alfred and George Washington Brown.) The funeral services were held Saturday afternoon from the residence on the farm, Rev. Thos. Austin conducted the services and burial was in Hazel Ridge. Note: Mary's parents were Christian Gerth b. Prussia about 1800, and Anne or Alice Day b. about 1818, PA.