Parmer Sanford Brown moved his family from Dickinson County, Kansas to White County, Indiana in 1880. The farm was about 2 and 1/2 miles south of Headlee, Indiana.
Then in 1894, he moved them to Lawrence County, Arkansas seeking a dryer climate. He went back to White County, Indiana to sell the farm, got sick and died there on September 23, 1895. A newspaper article found in Monticello states that he was buried in the Ploss Cemetery near Headlee. ( I understand that this cemetery is called Mt. Pleasant today )
The family story goes that in February of 1896, in the dead of winter, his body was taken to Arkansas by his oldest son, Bert Brown, but I have no proof. The story goes on to say that he was buried under a tree near the Arkansas and Missouri border because the Arkansas law officials wouldn't allow them to bring the body across the border.
Then in 1894, he moved them to Lawrence County, Arkansas seeking a dryer climate. He went back to White County, Indiana to sell the farm, got sick and died there on September 23, 1895. A newspaper article found in Monticello states that he was buried in the Ploss Cemetery near Headlee. ( I understand that this cemetery is called Mt. Pleasant today )
The family story goes that in February of 1896, in the dead of winter, his body was taken to Arkansas by his oldest son, Bert Brown, but I have no proof. The story goes on to say that he was buried under a tree near the Arkansas and Missouri border because the Arkansas law officials wouldn't allow them to bring the body across the border.
Parmer Sanford Brown moved his family from Dickinson County, Kansas to White County, Indiana in 1880. The farm was about 2 and 1/2 miles south of Headlee, Indiana.
Then in 1894, he moved them to Lawrence County, Arkansas seeking a dryer climate. He went back to White County, Indiana to sell the farm, got sick and died there on September 23, 1895. A newspaper article found in Monticello states that he was buried in the Ploss Cemetery near Headlee. ( I understand that this cemetery is called Mt. Pleasant today )
The family story goes that in February of 1896, in the dead of winter, his body was taken to Arkansas by his oldest son, Bert Brown, but I have no proof. The story goes on to say that he was buried under a tree near the Arkansas and Missouri border because the Arkansas law officials wouldn't allow them to bring the body across the border.
Then in 1894, he moved them to Lawrence County, Arkansas seeking a dryer climate. He went back to White County, Indiana to sell the farm, got sick and died there on September 23, 1895. A newspaper article found in Monticello states that he was buried in the Ploss Cemetery near Headlee. ( I understand that this cemetery is called Mt. Pleasant today )
The family story goes that in February of 1896, in the dead of winter, his body was taken to Arkansas by his oldest son, Bert Brown, but I have no proof. The story goes on to say that he was buried under a tree near the Arkansas and Missouri border because the Arkansas law officials wouldn't allow them to bring the body across the border.
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