The Brown Family in Warrenville Cemetery, Warrenville, DuPage, Illinois

One of the discoveries I made in researching the Wright line was that our 2nd great grandmother Laura Eugenia Brown Ludwig was buried in the Warrenville Cemetery, Warrenville, DuPage County, Illinois (Lot 14, Grave D) . Find-a-grave.com was very helpful in finding this discovery. It was linked to ancestry.com, which is how I found it. I began doing more research into Laura's family, her siblings & parents. I discovered that Laura's father, John Mason Brown, was also buried there (Lot 14, Grave H). More research helped me discover that her sister Julia Brown, who died at the young age of 19, was buried in Lot 14, Grave F. Another sister, Mary E. Brown Greene, was buried in Lot 14, Grave E. Laura's mother, Nancy Wescott Brown, apparently got remarried to Byron L. Harlow, after her first husband, John Mason Brown, died. (This was a 2nd marriage for Harlow also.) Once I discovered that, then it was easier to locate Nancy's grave site, also in Lot 14, but Grave G. Byron Harlow was buried in Lot 14, Grave A. His 1st wife, Lucy Millard Harlow, is buried in Lot 14, Grave B Then I discovered that Lot 14, Grave C is Carrie May Greene's grave site, who was about 15 years old when she died (the daughter of Mary E. Brown Greene). So, after a fair amount of research & some detective work, I was able to assemble the following summary:
Lot 14, Grave A: Byron L. Harlow, husband of Lucy Millard, then Nancy Wescott Brown
                          1792-1865
Lot 14, Grave B: Lucy Millard Harlow, 1st wife of Byron Harlow
                          1797-1850
Lot 14, Grave C: Carrie May Greene, daughter of Mary E Brown Greene
                          1862-1877
Lot 14, Grave D: Laura Brown Ludwig, dau. of John M Brown & Nancy Wescott Brown Harlow
                          1827-1889
Lot 14, Grave E: Mary Brown Greene, dau. of John M Brown & Nancy Wescott Brown Harlow
                          1832-1863
Lot 14, Grave F: Julia Brown, dau. of John M Brown & Nancy Wescott Brown Harlow
                          1838-1857
Lot 14, Grave G: Nancy Brown Harlow, wife of John M Brown, 2nd wife of Byron Harlow
                          1800-1881
Lot 14, Grave H: John Mason Brown, 1st husband of Nancy Wescott Brown
                           about 1795-1843

I can't really come up with a reason on how this came to be chronologically, based on who died first & was buried there, but in the end, this whole Lot 14 has family members who are related.

We were able to complete all the temple work for this Brown family except one sealing to parents which has been reserved by one of our family members & should be completed fairly soon :)

Grave A, Byron L. Harlow

Grave C, Carrie May Greene

Grave D, Laura Brown Ludwig

Grave E, Mary E. Brown Greene

Grave F, Julia Brown

Grave H, John M. Brown

First post on Wright-Aiken Family History Blog!

I never thought that anyone would want to read much about what I had to say, but now that I'm doing Family History research, I think that it's important that I have some way to share what I have learned/found/done with other family members who might be interested.

My Family History research started in earnest about 1.5 years ago when Kevin came home with a school assignment from his history class. he was supposed to do some research on the 2 main countries that his ancestors came from. I knew some about my ancestors, but I knew very little about Paul's. Also, I couldn't say what were the main 2 countries they came from. So I researched, made a fan chart, then I researched some more. After 1.5 years of research, I decided that I'd better share some of the knowledge that I have gained during this time.

One of the first things I did was to join ancestry.com because I felt that it was the easiest to navigate & to add records to. So, most of the information I have is stored on my family tree there. I think anyone can look at my tree & see what all information I have attached to it, even without a membership. It's listed as the Georgeann Wright family tree.

I have not yet decided what is the best way to organize my thoughts here or how to best report my most interesting findings, but I'd better just get started!