Tragic Accident Ends Life of Sanford Brown
Sanford Harrison Brown is the 3X paternal great grandfather of my husband, Richard T. Richardson. He was born about 1841 in Kentucky. In 1862 he married Minerva Jane “Mary” McDonald in Monroe County, Indiana, and with her fathered eight children including a daughter, Laura, who married Joshua Reece Richardson. In January 1896, Sanford reportedly went
Bloomington Man Loses Life Aboard the Titanic
The clipping noted below, written by Blaine W. Bradfute, was published in an undated, unsourced Bloomington newspaper under a column called “Looking Back.” It was found in a scrapbook compiled by a man named Fred Lockwood. The scrapbook is held by the Monroe County History Center, Bloomington, Indiana. In 1900, according to census information, 47-year
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