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Additional BROWN Surnames in NAPERVILLE Cemetery
BROWN, Howard A. "Bud"BROWN, Leslie R.BROWN, Rose F.BROWN, GeorgeBROWN, Sarah J.BROWN, Alice G.BROWN, Kenneth A.BROWN, George F.BROWN, Glenada S.BROWN, Harry S.BROWN, Charles S.BROWN, Lona M.BROWN, Harold E.BROWN, Lucille F.BROWN, Alvin H.BROWN, AnnaBROWN, Oliver J.BROWN, David G.BROWN, ElizabethBROWN, Gertrude C.BROWN, Mabel E.BROWN, Minnie H.BROWN, Martin M.BROWN, Everett AnsonBROWN, GraceBROWN, HelenBROWN, Ralph DavidBROWN, Clarence E.BROWN, Irvin M.BROWN, Emma A.BROWN, JacobBROWN, MatildaBROWN, Mary A.BROWN, MartinBROWN, Benjamin F.BROWN, LeahBROWN, Alice H.BROWN, Esias S.BROWN, Milton W.BROWN, DavidBROWN, Elizabeth Additional BROWN Surnames in DUPAGE County
BROWN, BerthaBROWN, Carl T.BROWN, Ernest A.BROWN, Gertrude E..BROWN, William W.BROWN, Neila M.BROWN, Verlin C.BROWN, Dorothy C.BROWN, Walter H.BROWN, Lillian V.BROWN, ErnestineBROWN, EdnaBROWN, R. S.BROWN, LoraineBROWN, VelmaBROWN, August C.BROWN, OttillieBROWN, Janel RaeBROWN, Dorothy K.BROWN, George H. Jr.BROWN, George H. Sr.BROWN, Emma L.BROWN, William A.BROWN, Eleanor R.BROWN, Leona E.BROWN, Martin F.BROWN, Donald M.BROWN, Sheila L.BROWN, Paul G.BROWN, Florence W.BROWN, Almira J.
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Submitted: 3/2/10 • Approved: 3/2/10 • Last Updated: 3/31/18 • R32830-G0-S3
WILLIAM
BROWN
ILLINOIS
PVT
CAPT PAYNE'S CO
ILL MOUNTED VOLS
BLACKHAWK WAR
JUNE 16 1832
Note: From DuPage Roots by Richard A. Thompson, specifically the section on Naperville by Helen Fraser, posted online at http://www.dupagehistory.org/dupage_roots/:
"Joseph Naper was chosen as the captain of the first military organization in DuPage County to serve in defense against Black Hawk in northern Illinois. About the middle of June, General Atkinson detailed Captain Morgan L. Paine of Joliet and fifty volunteers from Danville to build a fort in Naperville. Fort Payne was a stockade about 100 feet square, surrounded by pickets set in the ground on two diagonal corners, which were blockhouses pierced with openings for a view of the prairies from all directions. While the fort was being built, there was one casualty - a soldier, William Brown, who was ambushed and killed while gathering wood for the fort in Sweet's Grove (near Odgen Avenue)..."
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