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Family Timeline:  Ira Baker BROWN (1829-1899) & Martha Abigail HOPKINS (1834-1924)

DATE LOCATION EVENT SOURCE 28 Jun 1829 NY: Stockholm birth of Ira Baker BROWN Pension Application 1830 NY: Stockholm Willard BROWN head-of-household Census 27 Jul 1834 NY: Somerset birth of Martha Abigail HOPKINS Pension Application 1834-1838 NY > OH the Willard BROWNs move from New York to Ohio Census 1840 - where are the BROWNs?  they should be in Ohio Census 1840 - where are the HOPKINSes?  they should be in Michigan Census 28 Jun 1847 NY: Buffalo Ira Baker BROWN enlists in the Army, serves in the Mexican War Pension Application 23 Jul 1848 MS: Camp Jeff. Davis Ira Baker BROWN honorably discharged from Army Discharge Certificate 1846 -1850 OH > MI the Willard BROWNs move from Ohio to Michigan Census 1850 - where is Ira? (his parents are in Barry Co., MI, but he is not with them) Census 1850 MI: Detroit Martha HOPKINS (age 16), living with Samuel & Philancia HOPKINS Census 9 Dec 1853 MI: Detroit Ira B. BROWN of Birmingham, OH, marries M. A. HOPKINS of Detroit, MI Marriage Certificate 17 Sep 1854 MI: Detroit birth of Nellie BROWN Pension Application 30 Aug 1856 MI birth of Ida BROWN Pension Application 5 Oct 1859 MI: Hastings birth of Orlando BROWN Hopkins (1932)* 1860  MI: Hastings Ira BROWN (age 31) head-of-household, wife Martha (age 27) Census 1861 - Civil War begins - - MO: Poplar Bluff Ira Baker BROWN in residence Pension Application - MO: Iron Co.: Ironton Ira Baker BROWN in residence Pension Application 4 Jul 1863 AR: Helena Battle of Helena - 15 Jul 1863 AR: Helena death of Orlando BROWN Hopkins (1932)* 1864 MO: Iron Co.: Pilot Knob death of Philancia (HOLT) HOPKINS, Martha's mother email 25 Dec 1864 AR: Helena birth of Wallace Milton BROWN Pension Application 1865 - Civil War ends - 1865 MO: Chillicothe Ira and Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN commence residence Affidavit** 18 Apr 1867 MO: Chillicothe birth of Charles Stewart BROWN Pension Application 11 Feb 1869 MO: Chillicothe birth of Samuel Holt BROWN Pension Application 1870  MO: Chillicothe Ira B. BROWN (age 41) head-of-household, wife Martha A. (age 36) Census 25 Dec 1872 MO: Chillicothe birth of Gracie BROWN ? 1 Mar 1877 MO: Chillicothe daughter Nellie BROWN marries Cyrus Wells KIRK Marriage Certificate 17 May 1877 MO: Chillicothe daughter Ida BROWN marries William WILLIS Marriage Certificate 7 Aug 1878 MO: Chillicothe Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN writes to Nellie (BROWN) KIRK in Batesville, MO Letter 2 Feb 1879 MO: Chillicothe Ira Baker BROWN writes to the KIRKs in Larned, KS Letter 13 Jul 1879 - Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN writes to Nellie (BROWN) KIRK in Larned, KS Letter 25 Dec 1879 MO: Chillicothe Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN writes to "children" Letter 8 Feb 1880 MO: Chillicothe Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN writes to "children" Letter 28 Mar 1880 - Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN writes to Nellie (BROWN) KIRK in Larned, KS Letter 7 Apr 1880 MO: Chillicothe Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN writes to Nellie (BROWN) KIRK Letter 9 May 1880 MO: Chillicothe Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN writes to "children" Letter 1880 - (a Soundex search ordered from GRA for Livingston Co., MO, produced "no record") Census 25 Jul 1880 - Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN writes to Nellie (BROWN) KIRK  in Colorado Springs,  CO Letter 8 Aug 1880 - Ira Baker (BROWN) writes to the KIRKs in Colorado Springs, CO Letter 26 Nov 1881 MO: Chillicothe Ira Baker (BROWN) writes "children" Letter 27 Nov 1881 MO: Chillicothe Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN writes to the KIRKs in Colorado Springs, CO Letter 5 Feb 1881 MO: Chillicothe letter from Martha to "children" Letter 25 Feb 1882 MO: Chillicothe Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN writes to "children" Letter 14 Apr 1882 MO: Chillicothe Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN writes to "children" Letter May 1882 MO: Chillicothe Ira Baker BROWN writes to the KIRKs in Colorado Springs, CO Letter 25 May 1882 MO: Chillicothe Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN writes the KIRKs in Colorado Springs, CO Letter 29 Jun 1882 MO: Chillicothe Ira Baker BROWN writes to "children" Letter 29 Jul 1882 - Ira Baker BROWN writes to "children" Letter 9 Jul 1882 - Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN writes to KIRKs in Franceville, CO Letter 13 Dec 1882 MO: Chillicothe Ira  Baker BROWN writes to "children" Letter 30 Mar 1887 MO: Chillicothe Ira Baker BROWN signs his pension application as a resident of Chillicothe Pension Application 1890 - - - 20 Jul 1896 MO: Kansas City Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN writes to Nellie (BROWN) KIRK Letter 13 Apr 1897 MO: Kansas City Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN writes to Nellie (BROWN) KIRK Letter 16 Feb 1898? MO: Hansas City Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN writes to Nellie (BROWN) KIRK Letter 9 Feb 1899 MO: Kansas City Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN writes to Nellie (BROWN) KIRK in Chillicothe, MO Letter 27 Mar 1899 MO: Kansas City Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN writes to Nellie (BROWN) KIRK Letter 15 May 1899 MO: Kansas City death of Ira Baker BROWN Obituary 15 Jun 1899 - Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN writes to Nellie (BROWN) KIRK in Chillicothe, MO Letter 22 Jun 1899 MO: Kansas City Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN files widow's pension appliction Pension Application 1900 MO: Kansas City? [Not in Livingston Co. Census — have checked digital microfilm] Census 1900?-1908? MO: where? Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN may have returned to Chillicothe Affidavit** 1908 MO > OK This appears to be when Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN moved to Woodward, OK Affidavit** 1910 OK: Woodward Martha A. HOPKINS (age 77), living with Samuel H. and Minnie BROWN Census 28 May1914 OK: Woodward Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN signs an affidavit as a resident of Woodward Affidavit 15 Oct 1915 OK: Woodward letter to Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN from Charley BROWN, Kansas City, KS Letter 3 Feb 1916 OK: Woodward letter to Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN from Emma (FAY) HOPKINS in Chelan, WA Letter 12 Feb 1917 OK: Woodward Co. Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN sells 160 acres to Samuel H. BROWN for $1.00 Deed 1920 OK: Woodward Martha HOPKINS, living with Samuel H.  and Minnie BROWN Census 16 Apr 1921 LA: DeRidder letter to Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN from Eunice BROWN in Kansas City, KS Letter May 1921 LA: DeRidder Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN writes to Eunice BROWN in Kansas City, KS Letters 30 May 1921 LA: DeRidder letter to Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN from Nellie (BROWN) KIRK in Woodward, OK Letter 6 Jun 1921 LA: DeRidder letter to Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN from Nellie (BROWN) KIRK in Woodward, OK Letter 19 Jun 1921 LA: DeRidder letter to Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN from Ida (KIRK) BAIRD in Woodward, OK Letter 21 Dec 1921 LA: DeRidder letter to Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN from Victor KIRK in Kansas City, MO Letter 3 Jan 1922 LA: DeRidder letter to Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN from Eunice BROWN in Kansas City, KS Letter 18 Jul 1922 LA: DeRidder letter to Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN from Ida (KIRK) BAIRD in Woodward, OK Letter 26 Sep 1922 LA: DeRidder letter to Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN from Ida (BROWN) WILLIS Letter 1 Nov 1922 LA: DeRidder letter to Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN from Ida (BROWN) WILLIS  Letter 19 Dec 1922 LA: DeRidder letter to Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN from  Victor KIRK in Kansas City, MO Letter 12 Sep 1923 LA: DeRidder letter to Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN from Ida (BROWN) WILLIS in Fallon, NV Letter 20 Sep 1923 LA: DeRidder letter to Martha (HOPKINS) BROWN from Eunice BROWN in Kansas City, KS Letter 12 Jan 1924 LA: DeRidder death of Martha Abigail (HOPKINS) BROWN Death Certificate

*Timothy Hopkins' (1932) book, John Hopkins of Cambridge, 1634, and Some of His Descendants (Stanford Univ. Press).  According to Hopkins, Orlando and Malvina were twins "killed by lightning at school."  However, the 1860 census shows no Malvina, so if she were Orlando's twin, she died in infancy.  Also, Orlando died at age the age of three, so he was not of school age.  There's probably some grain of truth in this bit of oral family history communicated to Hopkins (by a distant kin of Martha's), but the tale is certainly not true as published by Hopkins.

**In 1914, in support of Cyrus KIRK's Civil War pension application, Martha signed an affidavit stating that she was a resident of Chillicothe, Mo., from 1865 to 1908, that during the period from the marriage of Nellie and Cyrus, in 1877, until 1902 that they had lived as neighbors in Chillicothe, and that during the period from 1902 to 1907, the KIRKs had lived in Woodward and she in Chillicothe.  These statements do not, of course, agree with Ira and Martha having lived in Kansas City ca. 1896-99 or with Cyrus and Nellie having lived in Batesville, MO, in 1878, in Larned, KS, ca. 1879-80, and in Colorado ca. 1880-82.

Family Group Sheet of Ira Baker BROWN & Martha Abigail HOPKINS

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