Checking in for the Cowlitz County Roll Call: I live in Portland, Oregon but grew up in Kelso (Lexington), Washington and Aberdeen, Washington. This is the information I posted last year, with some updates and additions. Wiley (or Wylie) Bradford BROWN was born 14 April 1849 in Illinois, the son of John Sidney BROWN, born 16 August 1820 in Cooperstown, New York, son of UNKNOWN and Irena BRADFORD; and Wilhelmina Louisa WYLIE, daughter of Daniel WYLIE and Elizabeth JERVIS. They married about 1846. Wiley Bradford Brown died about 23 July 1913 in Lexington (Cowlitz County), Washington. He lived in Wisconsin, Kansas, and Iowa before moving to the Auburn, Washington area and then to Cowlitz County. His children started school in a little settlement called Stuck, Washington near the Stuck River east of Auburn. Wiley Bradford Brown's Iowa marriage license gave his occupation as "artist." His obituary described him as a "prosperous farmer in Lexington." He was a fine artist and a number of his paintings are in the hands of his granddaughters--my mother and her cousin. Wiley Bradford Brown is buried in what used to be the IOOF Cemetery in Kelso; now it is Cowlitz View Gardens. I visited the cemetery in 1998 and located the gravesite using the cemetery records, but there is no headstone. Wiley had a brother named Francis Marion Brown who owned a candy store in Kelso called "Palace of Sweets." They had three sisters: Lillian Elizabeth (Lilly), Marietta Eliza (Etta), and Julietta. Wiley Bradford Brown married Anna Mary MOYER 03 November 1885 in Tama, Iowa. Her parents were Francis Xerxes MOYER and Marianna RINDLE, both born in Bavaria, Germany. Wiley and Anna traveled from Iowa to Washington in a covered wagon. Anna Mary Moyer was one of 12 children in a Catholic family. She renounced her religion to marry Wiley Bradford Brown, and her parents subsequently renounced her. However, her siblings stayed in touch and several of them followed the couple to the Northwest a few years later. Surnames: BROWN, BRADFORD, MOYER, WYLIE, RINDLE Other names associated with this family in Cowlitz County: BAGGE, BURDETTE, ERLAND, OGILVY/OGILVIE, MUNK, SCHUMANN Nancy Christie Portland, Oregon mailto:christie@bmb.ogi.edu