Family Group Sheet
NameWilliam W. Brown, 5G Uncle
Birthabt 1809-1812, Bourbon Co., Kentucky
FatherJames Brown (1783-1850)
MotherMiss Watters or Walters (-<1815)
MarriageMar 1829, Morgan Co., Kentucky
SpouseMary “Polly” Cassity
Birthabt 1814, Kentucky
Notes for William W. Brown
Many online family trees at Ancestry.com say that he died in 1855 in Mercer Co., Missouri, which does not fit with what was written in the Brown Family Reunion notes in 1911, about the daughters of James Brown and Emily Cloe joining their half-brother William in Putnam Co., Indiana in 1865.
Notes for William W. & Mary “Polly” (Family)
The minister’s return register for Morgan Co., Ky, records the marriage in March 1829, no day given, of William Brown and Polly Cassity, by William Cassity.
According to the 1911 Brown Family Reunion document, William and Polly moved to Putnam Co., Indiana at some unspecified date, but before 1865, when the group of four daughters of James Brown and Emily Cloe all migrated together with their husbands, since they were described as joining a half-brother William who had moved there previously.
According to the 1911 Brown Family Reunion document, William and Polly moved to Putnam Co., Indiana at some unspecified date, but before 1865, when the group of four daughters of James Brown and Emily Cloe all migrated together with their husbands, since they were described as joining a half-brother William who had moved there previously.
Census
I cannot find any match for William and Polly in the 1850 census in either Morgan Co., Ky, or Putnam Co., Indiana, and the names are too common to be able to identify them on the basis of name alone when broadening the search to other counties. (There is a William Brown b. ca 1807 Ky and wife Mary b. ca 1812 Ind in Monroe Co, Indiana, which is about 60 miles SE of Putnam Co, but that family remained in Monroe Co. through at least 1870.)
There is a William W. Brown in Putnam Co., born about 1809 in Kentucky, but in 1860 and 1870 he has a wife Mary who is 30 years younger than him, and no children born before 1854, so if it is the same William, his first wife must have died young. In 1850 he is listed with a Nancy Brown, age 56, which is 17 years older than him, and thus more likely a mother than wife, which would not fit with this William, whose mother died before 1815, and whose stepmother Emily died in Kentucky in 1855. There is also a Louisa age 6 in the household, most likely a daughter of William, indicating a previous marriage. This family is next door to the family of Mathias Sadler, whose son Joseph N. Sadler married Sarilda Jane Ferrand, daughter of Thomas Jefferson Ferrand and Martha Jane Brown. So he is rather a good fit in several ways, but if it is him, I do not know how Nancy Brown b. ca 1794 fits in.
There is a William W. Brown in Putnam Co., born about 1809 in Kentucky, but in 1860 and 1870 he has a wife Mary who is 30 years younger than him, and no children born before 1854, so if it is the same William, his first wife must have died young. In 1850 he is listed with a Nancy Brown, age 56, which is 17 years older than him, and thus more likely a mother than wife, which would not fit with this William, whose mother died before 1815, and whose stepmother Emily died in Kentucky in 1855. There is also a Louisa age 6 in the household, most likely a daughter of William, indicating a previous marriage. This family is next door to the family of Mathias Sadler, whose son Joseph N. Sadler married Sarilda Jane Ferrand, daughter of Thomas Jefferson Ferrand and Martha Jane Brown. So he is rather a good fit in several ways, but if it is him, I do not know how Nancy Brown b. ca 1794 fits in.
