My great-grandfather was Wiley (or Wylie) Bradford BROWN. He was born 14 April 1849 in Illinois. His father was John Sidney BROWN, born 16 August 1820 in Cooperstown, New York; his mother was Wilhelmina Louisa WYLIE, daughter of Daniel WYLIE and Elizabeth JERVIS. They married about 1846. Wiley 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 marriage license gave his occupation as "artist." His obituary described him as a "prosperous farmer." 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 last fall 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. They traveled from Iowa to Washington in a covered wagon. Anna Mary Moyer was one of 12 children in a Catholic family. She renounced her religious 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. Nancy Christie Portland, Oregon mailto:christie@bmb.ogi.edu