Joseph (Joe) BROWN

  General Notes:

Notes from Rootsweb file:
Joseph Brown, son of J. William and Martha Carper, and found him indeed in Muscatine Ia (Muscatine Co).
1900: E.D. 109, Sheet 9B, line 91:
Joseph b. June 1850 age 49, married 26 years, b. IA, father b.unknown, mother-IA.
Lizzie b. Feb 1857, a. 43, had 7 kids, all alive, b. Ia, both parents b. OH.
Clark, son b. Apr 1879, a.21, Ia, Ia, Ia.
Albert, son b. Aug 1881, a. 18, Ia, Ia, Ia
Mary, dau. b. July 1885. age 14 " " "
William son b. Aug 1889, age 11 " " "
?Samador son b. Apr 1893, age 7, " " " (The first letter is hard to
read, could be C, or G.)
Joseph, Clark and William were day laborers, Albert, a night watchman, Mary, servant.
Address is 1409 Oregon Street. Joseph's given birthplaces were wrong, in light of other evidence..

1920: Muscatine, IA, E.D. 127, 4th ward, Sheet 19 A, line 41, living on a houseboat.
Joseph, 65 b. VA,, father b. MD, mother b. VA, laborer, at Sash and Door Co.
Elizabeth, 64, b. Ia. " OH, " OH
Mary B. dau. 33 divorced b. IA. father b. Va, mother b. IA
Joseph W. grandson, age 4 3/12, b. Ia, father, Ia, mother Ia.
Billings, Harry M. grandson, age13, b. Ia, father, Ia, mother Ia.

Joseph married Elizabeth (Lizzie) MOOREHEAD about 1874. (Elizabeth (Lizzie) MOOREHEAD was born in Feb 1857 and died in 1925 in IA.)