Shep's Place Family Tree

Major C. Brown having made application for a license for himself and Caroline S. Donnally and being duly sworn, says that he is of the age of 21 years, and has no wife living; and that Caroline S. Donnally is of the age of 18 years, a resident of said County, and has no husband living, and that said parties are no nearer kin than second cousins.

Major C Brown's signature ‎(in a somewhat shaky writing which steadied as he went)‎.

Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 23" day of February A.D. 1893
H.P. Hanna, Probate Judge
By F.B. Hanna Deputy

On April 19, 1893 Frank P. Lutz, MG ‎[Minister of the Gospel]‎ certifies that on the 23 day of February 1893...‎[he]‎ joined in Marriage Major C. Brown and Caroline S. Donnally.

Written in pencil over Major Brown's name it says "Don't Publish."

1910 Columbus: It was a particularly busy time for the Browns with four children in their prime school years. Oscar was 16, Eugenia 14, Virginia 11 and Ruth nine. Major's job was something to do with breakfast food.

1920 Columbus: Major, Ruth and their three children were living in Columbus. Major was a "state inspector for chattel loans;" Oscar, 25, was a bill clerk for the railroad; Eugenia, 24, was a school teacher; and Ruth, 19, was a "saleslady in a music store." Virginia had left home.

1930 Columbus: Major owned his own home which was valued at $11,500. He was now 62 and Caroline 56. Major's occupation was commercial traveler/baking supplies. Their son Oscar D., 36, was a record clerk in a law office.

Dies in Columbus
Final Rites Here
Major C. Brown, 79, of 43 Fallis Road, Columbus died at 9.10 Sunday morning in St. Anthony's Hospital.

One old acquaintance is of the opinion that Major Brown was born in what is now L.R. Hall's property at the foot of Second Avenue on Vine Street. He was the son of Captain Miles H. Brown,and both were well-known steamboat men.
They operated for years the small packet Carrie Brown that plied daily between Gallipolis and Huntington. That boat, named for their daughter and sister, was destroyed by fire here early in the century. Not long after that Major Brown and family moved to Columbus.

On February 23, 1893, he and Caroline Donnally, a sister of Joe D. Donnally, were married in the Episcopal church here. She and their three daughters and a son survive: Mrs. Clyde Benoy of Columbus; Miss Eugenie J. Brown, Cleveland; Mrs. Luther Damron, Stuart, Florida; and Oscar D. Brown, clerk of the Columbus Municipal Court. Descedent is survived also by his sister Mrs. Jesse D. ‎(Carrie Brown)‎ Fee of New Orleans.

Interment will be made here Wednesday. Services will be held at the Schoedinger Funeral Home in Columbus at 7.30 p.m. Tuesday.