Elijah Brown was the son of Elizabeth (Shelton) and Michael Brown. Most people called him Lige, an abbreviation of Elijah, pronounced like the middle syllable in Elijah.
On January 6, 1869 Elijah Brown married Jane Bertram, a native of Wayne County, Kentucky. They were married by the Rev. Calvin Smith, in his home in Fentress County, Tennessee, a short distance from their own home in Kentucky. Their copy of the marriage record was lost and the record at the courthouse could not be found either. In Jane's application for a Widow's Pension on Elijah's military service, there are affidavits by her brother, Elza Bertram and her brother-in-law, Jefferson Brown and others, stating they were present at and witnessed their wedding.
They were the parents of seven children: Feraby Ellen (called Ellen), Nancy Elizabeth (Lizzie), George Washington, General Marion, Prentiss, Fount William, and Arlena. Five lived to adulthood but Prentiss and Nancy Elizabeth "Lizzie" died in childhood. There was one small stone for both Elijah and Jane that was almost illegible. New tombstones were installed Friday, March 11, 2011 in front of the old one. The same dates were used but the spelling of Elijah's name was corrected on the new marker from Eliga to Elijah. Unfortunately, the new tombstone kept the same dates as the original one. The 1850 and 1860 census records and his military record all indicate 1839 as his year of birth, instead of 1843 as on his tombstone. Both the birth and death years on the original grave stone are wrong, having been erected several years after his death by his children who were poorly educated and illiterate. We know for certain from his pension papers that he died in 1884, not 1883 as inscribed on his tombstones. HIs last child, Arlena, was born less than a week before his death.
CERTIFICATE OF DISABILITY OR DISCHARGE: Dated March 13th, 1863 at Station Headquarters in Louisville Barracks, Louisville, Kentucky, signed by Geo. Abbott. due to "chronic rheumatism." [rheumatoid arthritis] Summary from Discharge: Elijah Brown enlisted on September 14, 1861 in Company A, 3rd Regiment, Infantry, Kentucky Volunteers, Union Army, also known as Captain Samuel McKee's Company, at Adair County, Kentucky , to serve for 3 years. He was born at Jackson County, Tennessee, age 22, 5 foot 7 inches tall, dark complexion, blue eyes, black hair, a farmer by occupation. "The place where soldier desires to be addressed is Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky."
NARA, Catalog #300398
Carded Records
Record Group 94
State KY
Roll 0170
In 1870 Elijah applied for and received a veteran's pension until his death in 1884 from "pthisis pulmonalis", better known as tuberculosis of the lungs, and also known as consumption. The rheumatoid arthritis for which he received a medical discharge had continued to progress until he was totally disabled
before his late 30ths. It had also caused his general health to deteriorate, and probably was an underlying cause for his contracting tuberculosis.
Jane, applied for a Widow's Pension in 1884 but died in 1888 before it was approved. Later, Jane's brother. Rev. Alvin Bertram, as the Guardian of Elijah and Jane's minor children, applied for a pension, which was approved for the support of General Marion, Fount William and Arlena, the three youngest children living when he died.
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Elijah was reputed to have a quick and fiery temper which led to his early death. According to the family stories it was cold weather when there was a party going on in the area. Elijah had provided for his family by cutting and stacking a sizable amount of firewood at their door. He and Jane had a new baby to keep warm. The party revelers raided his wood pile and came back for more when they encountered Elijah waiting for them. There was a verbal altercation during which one man became frightened of Elijah and shot him in the face with a shotgun loaded with bird shot. Elijah did not die from the incident but was said to have suffered from many small wounds. Old family stories said he died of the wounds but his pension papers prove otherwise. Supposedly he and Jane were living in the Beech Bottom community of Clinton Co., Kentucky when he was shot, which is just over the mountain from Sunnybrook, Wayne Co., Kentucky where they are buried at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
Brown Family Study at Family Tree DNA is Group #157
On January 6, 1869 Elijah Brown married Jane Bertram, a native of Wayne County, Kentucky. They were married by the Rev. Calvin Smith, in his home in Fentress County, Tennessee, a short distance from their own home in Kentucky. Their copy of the marriage record was lost and the record at the courthouse could not be found either. In Jane's application for a Widow's Pension on Elijah's military service, there are affidavits by her brother, Elza Bertram and her brother-in-law, Jefferson Brown and others, stating they were present at and witnessed their wedding.
They were the parents of seven children: Feraby Ellen (called Ellen), Nancy Elizabeth (Lizzie), George Washington, General Marion, Prentiss, Fount William, and Arlena. Five lived to adulthood but Prentiss and Nancy Elizabeth "Lizzie" died in childhood. There was one small stone for both Elijah and Jane that was almost illegible. New tombstones were installed Friday, March 11, 2011 in front of the old one. The same dates were used but the spelling of Elijah's name was corrected on the new marker from Eliga to Elijah. Unfortunately, the new tombstone kept the same dates as the original one. The 1850 and 1860 census records and his military record all indicate 1839 as his year of birth, instead of 1843 as on his tombstone. Both the birth and death years on the original grave stone are wrong, having been erected several years after his death by his children who were poorly educated and illiterate. We know for certain from his pension papers that he died in 1884, not 1883 as inscribed on his tombstones. HIs last child, Arlena, was born less than a week before his death.
CERTIFICATE OF DISABILITY OR DISCHARGE: Dated March 13th, 1863 at Station Headquarters in Louisville Barracks, Louisville, Kentucky, signed by Geo. Abbott. due to "chronic rheumatism." [rheumatoid arthritis] Summary from Discharge: Elijah Brown enlisted on September 14, 1861 in Company A, 3rd Regiment, Infantry, Kentucky Volunteers, Union Army, also known as Captain Samuel McKee's Company, at Adair County, Kentucky , to serve for 3 years. He was born at Jackson County, Tennessee, age 22, 5 foot 7 inches tall, dark complexion, blue eyes, black hair, a farmer by occupation. "The place where soldier desires to be addressed is Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky."
NARA, Catalog #300398
Carded Records
Record Group 94
State KY
Roll 0170
In 1870 Elijah applied for and received a veteran's pension until his death in 1884 from "pthisis pulmonalis", better known as tuberculosis of the lungs, and also known as consumption. The rheumatoid arthritis for which he received a medical discharge had continued to progress until he was totally disabled
before his late 30ths. It had also caused his general health to deteriorate, and probably was an underlying cause for his contracting tuberculosis.
Jane, applied for a Widow's Pension in 1884 but died in 1888 before it was approved. Later, Jane's brother. Rev. Alvin Bertram, as the Guardian of Elijah and Jane's minor children, applied for a pension, which was approved for the support of General Marion, Fount William and Arlena, the three youngest children living when he died.
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Elijah was reputed to have a quick and fiery temper which led to his early death. According to the family stories it was cold weather when there was a party going on in the area. Elijah had provided for his family by cutting and stacking a sizable amount of firewood at their door. He and Jane had a new baby to keep warm. The party revelers raided his wood pile and came back for more when they encountered Elijah waiting for them. There was a verbal altercation during which one man became frightened of Elijah and shot him in the face with a shotgun loaded with bird shot. Elijah did not die from the incident but was said to have suffered from many small wounds. Old family stories said he died of the wounds but his pension papers prove otherwise. Supposedly he and Jane were living in the Beech Bottom community of Clinton Co., Kentucky when he was shot, which is just over the mountain from Sunnybrook, Wayne Co., Kentucky where they are buried at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
Brown Family Study at Family Tree DNA is Group #157
Elijah Brown was the son of Elizabeth (Shelton) and Michael Brown. Most people called him Lige, an abbreviation of Elijah, pronounced like the middle syllable in Elijah.
On January 6, 1869 Elijah Brown married Jane Bertram, a native of Wayne County, Kentucky. They were married by the Rev. Calvin Smith, in his home in Fentress County, Tennessee, a short distance from their own home in Kentucky. Their copy of the marriage record was lost and the record at the courthouse could not be found either. In Jane's application for a Widow's Pension on Elijah's military service, there are affidavits by her brother, Elza Bertram and her brother-in-law, Jefferson Brown and others, stating they were present at and witnessed their wedding.
They were the parents of seven children: Feraby Ellen (called Ellen), Nancy Elizabeth (Lizzie), George Washington, General Marion, Prentiss, Fount William, and Arlena. Five lived to adulthood but Prentiss and Nancy Elizabeth "Lizzie" died in childhood. There was one small stone for both Elijah and Jane that was almost illegible. New tombstones were installed Friday, March 11, 2011 in front of the old one. The same dates were used but the spelling of Elijah's name was corrected on the new marker from Eliga to Elijah. Unfortunately, the new tombstone kept the same dates as the original one. The 1850 and 1860 census records and his military record all indicate 1839 as his year of birth, instead of 1843 as on his tombstone. Both the birth and death years on the original grave stone are wrong, having been erected several years after his death by his children who were poorly educated and illiterate. We know for certain from his pension papers that he died in 1884, not 1883 as inscribed on his tombstones. HIs last child, Arlena, was born less than a week before his death.
CERTIFICATE OF DISABILITY OR DISCHARGE: Dated March 13th, 1863 at Station Headquarters in Louisville Barracks, Louisville, Kentucky, signed by Geo. Abbott. due to "chronic rheumatism." [rheumatoid arthritis] Summary from Discharge: Elijah Brown enlisted on September 14, 1861 in Company A, 3rd Regiment, Infantry, Kentucky Volunteers, Union Army, also known as Captain Samuel McKee's Company, at Adair County, Kentucky , to serve for 3 years. He was born at Jackson County, Tennessee, age 22, 5 foot 7 inches tall, dark complexion, blue eyes, black hair, a farmer by occupation. "The place where soldier desires to be addressed is Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky."
NARA, Catalog #300398
Carded Records
Record Group 94
State KY
Roll 0170
In 1870 Elijah applied for and received a veteran's pension until his death in 1884 from "pthisis pulmonalis", better known as tuberculosis of the lungs, and also known as consumption. The rheumatoid arthritis for which he received a medical discharge had continued to progress until he was totally disabled
before his late 30ths. It had also caused his general health to deteriorate, and probably was an underlying cause for his contracting tuberculosis.
Jane, applied for a Widow's Pension in 1884 but died in 1888 before it was approved. Later, Jane's brother. Rev. Alvin Bertram, as the Guardian of Elijah and Jane's minor children, applied for a pension, which was approved for the support of General Marion, Fount William and Arlena, the three youngest children living when he died.
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Elijah was reputed to have a quick and fiery temper which led to his early death. According to the family stories it was cold weather when there was a party going on in the area. Elijah had provided for his family by cutting and stacking a sizable amount of firewood at their door. He and Jane had a new baby to keep warm. The party revelers raided his wood pile and came back for more when they encountered Elijah waiting for them. There was a verbal altercation during which one man became frightened of Elijah and shot him in the face with a shotgun loaded with bird shot. Elijah did not die from the incident but was said to have suffered from many small wounds. Old family stories said he died of the wounds but his pension papers prove otherwise. Supposedly he and Jane were living in the Beech Bottom community of Clinton Co., Kentucky when he was shot, which is just over the mountain from Sunnybrook, Wayne Co., Kentucky where they are buried at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
Brown Family Study at Family Tree DNA is Group #157
On January 6, 1869 Elijah Brown married Jane Bertram, a native of Wayne County, Kentucky. They were married by the Rev. Calvin Smith, in his home in Fentress County, Tennessee, a short distance from their own home in Kentucky. Their copy of the marriage record was lost and the record at the courthouse could not be found either. In Jane's application for a Widow's Pension on Elijah's military service, there are affidavits by her brother, Elza Bertram and her brother-in-law, Jefferson Brown and others, stating they were present at and witnessed their wedding.
They were the parents of seven children: Feraby Ellen (called Ellen), Nancy Elizabeth (Lizzie), George Washington, General Marion, Prentiss, Fount William, and Arlena. Five lived to adulthood but Prentiss and Nancy Elizabeth "Lizzie" died in childhood. There was one small stone for both Elijah and Jane that was almost illegible. New tombstones were installed Friday, March 11, 2011 in front of the old one. The same dates were used but the spelling of Elijah's name was corrected on the new marker from Eliga to Elijah. Unfortunately, the new tombstone kept the same dates as the original one. The 1850 and 1860 census records and his military record all indicate 1839 as his year of birth, instead of 1843 as on his tombstone. Both the birth and death years on the original grave stone are wrong, having been erected several years after his death by his children who were poorly educated and illiterate. We know for certain from his pension papers that he died in 1884, not 1883 as inscribed on his tombstones. HIs last child, Arlena, was born less than a week before his death.
CERTIFICATE OF DISABILITY OR DISCHARGE: Dated March 13th, 1863 at Station Headquarters in Louisville Barracks, Louisville, Kentucky, signed by Geo. Abbott. due to "chronic rheumatism." [rheumatoid arthritis] Summary from Discharge: Elijah Brown enlisted on September 14, 1861 in Company A, 3rd Regiment, Infantry, Kentucky Volunteers, Union Army, also known as Captain Samuel McKee's Company, at Adair County, Kentucky , to serve for 3 years. He was born at Jackson County, Tennessee, age 22, 5 foot 7 inches tall, dark complexion, blue eyes, black hair, a farmer by occupation. "The place where soldier desires to be addressed is Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky."
NARA, Catalog #300398
Carded Records
Record Group 94
State KY
Roll 0170
In 1870 Elijah applied for and received a veteran's pension until his death in 1884 from "pthisis pulmonalis", better known as tuberculosis of the lungs, and also known as consumption. The rheumatoid arthritis for which he received a medical discharge had continued to progress until he was totally disabled
before his late 30ths. It had also caused his general health to deteriorate, and probably was an underlying cause for his contracting tuberculosis.
Jane, applied for a Widow's Pension in 1884 but died in 1888 before it was approved. Later, Jane's brother. Rev. Alvin Bertram, as the Guardian of Elijah and Jane's minor children, applied for a pension, which was approved for the support of General Marion, Fount William and Arlena, the three youngest children living when he died.
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Elijah was reputed to have a quick and fiery temper which led to his early death. According to the family stories it was cold weather when there was a party going on in the area. Elijah had provided for his family by cutting and stacking a sizable amount of firewood at their door. He and Jane had a new baby to keep warm. The party revelers raided his wood pile and came back for more when they encountered Elijah waiting for them. There was a verbal altercation during which one man became frightened of Elijah and shot him in the face with a shotgun loaded with bird shot. Elijah did not die from the incident but was said to have suffered from many small wounds. Old family stories said he died of the wounds but his pension papers prove otherwise. Supposedly he and Jane were living in the Beech Bottom community of Clinton Co., Kentucky when he was shot, which is just over the mountain from Sunnybrook, Wayne Co., Kentucky where they are buried at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
Brown Family Study at Family Tree DNA is Group #157
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