Note: This is not Leroy E Brown buried in this same cemetery.
Leroy and his brothers were placed in an orphanage when their father died of Typhoid in 1896. Their mother Sarah Anna Youngman remarried less than one year after his death. Leroy was age 10. Later he and his brothers George Washington and John Brown were removed from the orphanage by his uncle William F. Brown. William's wife Adeline was reportedly very mean per Leroy. Leroy ran away after he was used by his uncle to make money as a laborer. He became a cowboy in the badlands and later went back to get his brother G.W. His other brother John died of TB (consumption).
At the time of his death Leroy was preceeded in death by his only son Haskel Joseph Brown and survived by his wife Rosette Mable (Davis) Brown, Daughters; Ruby (Brown) Sutton, Ruth (Brown) Pettigrew, Kathern (Brown) Hall and Elaine (Brown) Watson.
Leroy was a kind man and worked as a farmer and carpenter. He met Grandma Rosette Mable Davis and married her 6 Apr 1911 in the Valentine area of Nebraska. I knew him as "Dad" (Grandpa) and her as "Nana". The dustbowl and the depression drove them from farming in Nebraska. The family worked their way West and eventually ended up in Seattle, WA.
"Dad" spoke fluent Sioux and interpreted for the local Sioux people from Valentine to Rosebud SD. My mother commented that he was very well liked and respected by everyone in the area.
Son Haskell who died fairly young in Idaho as a result of a construction accident.
His 4 daughters all lived full lives.
Leroy and his brothers were placed in an orphanage when their father died of Typhoid in 1896. Their mother Sarah Anna Youngman remarried less than one year after his death. Leroy was age 10. Later he and his brothers George Washington and John Brown were removed from the orphanage by his uncle William F. Brown. William's wife Adeline was reportedly very mean per Leroy. Leroy ran away after he was used by his uncle to make money as a laborer. He became a cowboy in the badlands and later went back to get his brother G.W. His other brother John died of TB (consumption).
At the time of his death Leroy was preceeded in death by his only son Haskel Joseph Brown and survived by his wife Rosette Mable (Davis) Brown, Daughters; Ruby (Brown) Sutton, Ruth (Brown) Pettigrew, Kathern (Brown) Hall and Elaine (Brown) Watson.
Leroy was a kind man and worked as a farmer and carpenter. He met Grandma Rosette Mable Davis and married her 6 Apr 1911 in the Valentine area of Nebraska. I knew him as "Dad" (Grandpa) and her as "Nana". The dustbowl and the depression drove them from farming in Nebraska. The family worked their way West and eventually ended up in Seattle, WA.
"Dad" spoke fluent Sioux and interpreted for the local Sioux people from Valentine to Rosebud SD. My mother commented that he was very well liked and respected by everyone in the area.
Son Haskell who died fairly young in Idaho as a result of a construction accident.
His 4 daughters all lived full lives.
Note: This is not Leroy E Brown buried in this same cemetery.
Leroy and his brothers were placed in an orphanage when their father died of Typhoid in 1896. Their mother Sarah Anna Youngman remarried less than one year after his death. Leroy was age 10. Later he and his brothers George Washington and John Brown were removed from the orphanage by his uncle William F. Brown. William's wife Adeline was reportedly very mean per Leroy. Leroy ran away after he was used by his uncle to make money as a laborer. He became a cowboy in the badlands and later went back to get his brother G.W. His other brother John died of TB (consumption).
At the time of his death Leroy was preceeded in death by his only son Haskel Joseph Brown and survived by his wife Rosette Mable (Davis) Brown, Daughters; Ruby (Brown) Sutton, Ruth (Brown) Pettigrew, Kathern (Brown) Hall and Elaine (Brown) Watson.
Leroy was a kind man and worked as a farmer and carpenter. He met Grandma Rosette Mable Davis and married her 6 Apr 1911 in the Valentine area of Nebraska. I knew him as "Dad" (Grandpa) and her as "Nana". The dustbowl and the depression drove them from farming in Nebraska. The family worked their way West and eventually ended up in Seattle, WA.
"Dad" spoke fluent Sioux and interpreted for the local Sioux people from Valentine to Rosebud SD. My mother commented that he was very well liked and respected by everyone in the area.
Son Haskell who died fairly young in Idaho as a result of a construction accident.
His 4 daughters all lived full lives.
Leroy and his brothers were placed in an orphanage when their father died of Typhoid in 1896. Their mother Sarah Anna Youngman remarried less than one year after his death. Leroy was age 10. Later he and his brothers George Washington and John Brown were removed from the orphanage by his uncle William F. Brown. William's wife Adeline was reportedly very mean per Leroy. Leroy ran away after he was used by his uncle to make money as a laborer. He became a cowboy in the badlands and later went back to get his brother G.W. His other brother John died of TB (consumption).
At the time of his death Leroy was preceeded in death by his only son Haskel Joseph Brown and survived by his wife Rosette Mable (Davis) Brown, Daughters; Ruby (Brown) Sutton, Ruth (Brown) Pettigrew, Kathern (Brown) Hall and Elaine (Brown) Watson.
Leroy was a kind man and worked as a farmer and carpenter. He met Grandma Rosette Mable Davis and married her 6 Apr 1911 in the Valentine area of Nebraska. I knew him as "Dad" (Grandpa) and her as "Nana". The dustbowl and the depression drove them from farming in Nebraska. The family worked their way West and eventually ended up in Seattle, WA.
"Dad" spoke fluent Sioux and interpreted for the local Sioux people from Valentine to Rosebud SD. My mother commented that he was very well liked and respected by everyone in the area.
Son Haskell who died fairly young in Idaho as a result of a construction accident.
His 4 daughters all lived full lives.
