Walter Williams Brown (1867-1947)

Parents
Enoch Burdick Brown  and Maria Williams
Birth
December 17, 1860 in Brownsville, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada.
Photos
Photo dated 1890
Wedding Photo 1906
Death
May 17, 1947, near Gleichen, Alberta, Canada
Buried
Gleichen Cemetery, Alberta, Canada
Occupation
Teacher, Ranch Foreman, Ranch Owner, Owner - Gleichen Transfer and Coal Sales (Gleichen, Alberta), Bailiff - Calgary Sherriff
Articles
Biography of Walter Williams Brown from, "The Gleichen Call.  A History of Gleichen and Surrounding Areas, 1877 to 1968"
History
1887, Teacher in Brownsville, Ontario, Canada
1888, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1889, Ranch Foreman at Mr. Sparrow's Hippo Ranch (Carseland, Alberta)
Purchased, Heap See Ranch, southwest of Stathmore, Alberta
1906, married Mae Agnes McCormack
1916, bought ranch on Red Deer River at Hutton, Alberta
Bailiff, Calgary Sherriff
Owned Gleichen Transfer and Coal Sales, Gleichen, Alberta
Marriage
Dec. 25, 1906 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, to Mae Agnes ('Minnie') McCormack
(marriage took place at the home of Walter's sister, Ida Rebecca Elizabeth Brown)
Born December 27, 1875, Pelee Island, Ontario, Canada
(Grand-daughter of William McCormick, who settled Pelee Island)
Died August 02, 1947
Buried Gleichen Cemetery, Alberta, Canada

Children of Marriage to Mae 'Minnie' Agnes McCormack
Ida Mae Vivien Brown
Born April 25, 1908, Alberta, Canada
Photo

Married 1st Aug. 31, 1929, Merle F. McMann
Children:
Beverly McMann (Salinger)
Georgina McMann (Lypchuk)

Married 2nd, Denton Elmer Sammons
Child:
Sheryl Sammons

Married 3rd, Gerald Graham
Died 1986 in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Alta Maria Brown/Georgina Alberta Jackson
Born Decemeber 11, 1910, in Strathmore, Alberta, Canada
Photo dated 1934

Raised by father Walter's sister Carrie Josephine Brown

Married 1st, Earle Swayze

Married 2nd, July 27, 1938 in Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada to William Archibald Kennedy (b. Sept. 18, 1908 in Ailsa Craig, Ontario, Canada; d. November 19, 1979 in Hanover, Ontario, Canada)
Died August 16, 1999 in Brantford, Ontario, Canada
George Arthur (Art) Woodrow Brown
Photo
Born April 03, 1914 in Strathmore, Alberta, Canada
Fireman, Trail, British Columbia

Married January 30, 1942 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to Anne Harriet Stewart

Children:
Stewart
Marlene
Ronald
Died September 25, 1990 in Riverview Hospital, Port Coquitlan, British Columbia, Canada
Walter Laurier ('Laurie' or 'Harry') Brown
Photo
Born November 06, 1909 in Strathmore, Alberta, Canada

Never married
Died October 14, 1979 in Gleichen, Alberta, Canada
Buried Gleichen Cemetery, Alberta, Canada


Return to top of document.
Return to Brown Genealogy Home