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Jackson County,
Illinois
Pension of William
L. Brown
Donated by Neva Mohle
Name:
Brown, William L.
Place of Birth/Date:
Illinois, 1821
Place of Death/Date: 71/2
miles South of Joplin, Missouri, on the edge of
the county of Newton, Missouri / Death, 15 Sept.
1878 (one document states
1879)
Regiment/Rank: Company “M”, 9th
Infantry, Volunteers, Capt. E. M.
Lows
Date of Enlistment: 2 July,
1861
Discharge: 13 Sept 1862 / Corinth,
Mississippi
Certificate of Disability for
discharge:
“General Hospital:, Corinth,
Mississippi, by Norman (unreadable last name),
Staff Surgeon.
I certify, that I have
carefully examined the said William L. Brown, of
Capt. E. M. Louis ’ Company, and find him
incapable of performing the duties of a soldier
because of wounds received at the Battle of
Shiloh, Tennessee, on the 6th of April,
1862.”
Place of Residence: Carbondale,
Jackson County, Illinois ; Newton County,
Missouri
William’s son Edward moved to Miller
County, Missouri, late 1800s
Wife’s name,
marriage date:
(1) Dianna, she
born 1821, IL, died 3 April 1856
(2) Sarah
Greathouse marriage: 29 March
1857
Dependent Children:
none
Children by previous
marriage:
4 sons: James
Madison Brown, Edward Brown; names of the other
sons not known to me
Witnesses who filed
on be half of widow: D. A. S. Gent or Gant,
(hard to read) and James S. Smith (both from
Jackson County, IL). Louis B. Holman, from
Miller County, MO
Witnesses residences:
Jackson County, IL and Miller County,
MO
Date pension filed: July 1886;
Application for increase of invalid pension: 29
April 1873
Date Widow filed: Sept.
1881
Date pension granted/amt. per month:
1 August, 1866 / $4.00 per month
Date
pension ended: William’s, Certificate # 72894 4
Sept 1879
Pension for Sarah A. Brown,
Certificate # 312192 ended 4 April 1892
(death)
Other notes from enlistment
papers: W .L. Brown was 42 yrs of age at
enlistment; He was 5 ft 11 in. tall, dark
complexion, black eyes, brown hair, and he was a
Farmer.
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