Gustavus Adolphus Brown

Gustavus Adolphus Brown

(10/30/1869 Wabash, Indiana -10/14/1938 Allendale, Florida)
married Wilda Alice Lambert (3/4/1890 Wabash, Indiana)

*Lawrence Brown 1892-1960 (Indiana/Florida)

   m.Helen Smith 1895-1966 (Indiana/Ohio)

      Betty Brown 1915-1985(Indiana/Colorado)

      Lawrence Brown Jr. 1917-1976(Indiana/Michigan)

      William Brown 1923-2019 (Indiana/Michigan)

      James Brown 1926-2022 (Florida/Michigan) [twin]

      MaryJane Brown 1926-2010 (Florida/Texas) [twin]

*Florence Brown 1894-1956 (Indiana/Florida)

   m.Owen Weesener 1890-1926

      Fred Weesner 1912-1996 (Indiana/Florida)

      William Weesner 1914-1937 (Indiana/Florida)

      James Weesner 1915-1936 (Indiana/Florida)

      Laura Jane Weesner 1918-2020 (Indiana/Florida)

*John Brown 1895-1969 (Indiana/Florida)

   m.Ruby Purdy 1896-1960 (Indiana/Florida)

      Helen Brown 1914-1974 (Indiana/Florida)

      Beth Brown 1918-1977 (Indiana/Florida)

      John J. Brown 1921-1968 (Florida)

      Lester Brown 1924-2001 (Florida)

      Clarence Brown ?/(?)

      James Brown ?/(?)

      Mary Lee Brown ?/(?)

      John E. Brown ?/(?)

      June Brown ?/(?)

*Dorothy Pearl Brown 1897-1992 (Indiana)

   m.Roy Coon 1896-1972 (Indiana)

      Phyllis Coon 1926-1993 (Indiana)

*Mary Brown 1899-? (Indiana/?)

*Mabel Mae Brown 1904-1965 (Indiana) 

   m.William Steenman 1896-1963 (Holland/Indiana) 

      Willa Mae Steenman 1947-2012 (Indiana/Ohio)

*Ralph Brown 1906-1985 (Indiana/Florida)

   m.Viola DeLorey 1917-1994 (Massachusetts/Florida)

      Pearl Brown 1937-2010 (Florida)

      Dorothy Jane Brown 1938-2020 (Florida/?)

*George Brown 1915-1980 (Indiana/Florida)

   m.Clemigrace Meadows 1921-1993 (?/Florida)

      George Brown Jr. 1940-1993 (Florida)

Gus was born in Wabash, Indiana the great grandson of a Seneca Indian squaw. He worked as a farm laborer in Wabash County and

later as a carpenter starting his own business with his sons building homes in Wabash until he moved to Florida where he divorced and remarried and the divorced again.

It would appear he was likely named after Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus who led the Protestant forces in the 30 years war of the mid 1600's that gripped Europe. He was their military hero of the war.....when Gustavus Adolphus Brown was 5 his parents are in a newspaper article hosting a church service in their home for several Protestant denominations at the same time.

He is buried at the Friends cemetery in Wabash, Indiana. 

With his wife and children/GUESSING around 1912?

With his brothers and sisters/Guessing 1930's?