Individual Details

15 Apr 1910, Meadow Creek, Madison Co., MT, ED 53 Sh 3A;
George N Brown, head, 43 (1866-67), marriage 1 of 10 yr., born VT father born VT mother born Canada (English), laborer - farm
Violett Brown, 29 (1880-81) marriage one of ten years, mother of 5, 3 living, born IA, father born PA, mother born IA
Bessie Brown, 10 (1899-1900) born MT, father born VT, mother born IA
Agnes Brown, 3 (1906-07) born MT, father born VT, mother born IA
Arthur Brown, 2 (1907-08) born MT, father born VT, mother born IA.

1 Jan 1920, Springville Twp. & Village, Tulare Co., CA. , ED 218. sheet 2B, line 69;
George N. Brown, 51 (1868), widower, born VT, both parents born U.S., laborer, general farm, can read and write, rents
Bessie V. Brown, daughter, 19 (1900) single, born MT, father born VT, mother born IA
Agnes C. Brown, daughter, 13 (1907), born MT, father born VT, mother born IA
Carl V.Brown, son, 11 (1908) born MT, father born VT, mother born IA.

1 Apr 1930, Strathmore Twp., Tulare Co., CA, ED 54-54, sh 5A;
Carl Brown, head, 22 (1907-08), 20 at first marriage, born Montana father born Vermont mother born Iowa, laborer - ranch, rents for $10, owns a radio.
Shirley Brown, wife, 21 (1908-09), 19 at first marriage, born CA both parents born CA.
Next door to Everett and Bessie Duncan.

Carl submitted the following article for a book being published on Madison Co., MT. His article was on page 26:
"My father, George N. Brown, came from Vermont to Montana in 1888. He was a foot-loose young man who wanted to see what was on "the other side of the mountain".
He met and married Violet Vincent in 1889.
He worked at mining and on ranches around Meadow Creek. He loved to "prospect" in his spare time.
Their first child, Bessie, was born to them in 1900. Twins, Clara and Clifford, born in 1902, lived only a few weeks. Agnes was born in 1906 and Carl in 1908.
I was born in a little log house at McAllister, which was still standing when I was there in 1964.
My father worked for Alex McAllister on one of his ranches up on Meadow Creek when I was a small boy. I remember father hauling hay and feeding the cattle in the winter, using a sled with racks. I got to drive the team while he was feeding; some thrill for a little boy.
Around 1912, Dad bought a small place between North and South Meadow Creek and built a home on it.
He was a pretty fair country barber and made one room into a barbershop. He barbered after work and on Sundays. The old timers used to gather there and tell about their experiences. They told of rounding up unbroken, half-wild horses on Sundays. They rode them slick; no saddles and only a hand hold in their manes. They eared them down while one of the men climbed on and hollered "Open the gate" and rode them out on the prairie.
William "Bill" Fletcher, a Montana pioneer, was one of the greatest, and would ride anything they rounded up. Bill was also a great storyteller. He told of the old Montana recluse who went to Butte for a trip by train. When the ticket agent asked him where he wanted to go, he replied, "None of your damn business!"
Bill and his wife, Edith McDowell Fletcher, who was my mother's cousin, visited me on my ranch in California when they were in their late seventies. First thing after breakfast Bill would go out and saddle a horse and take a ride.
My sister Agnes and I went to the little Meadow Creek school. When I was in the first grade, Miss Ruth Moore was our teacher.
My older sister, Bessie, attended Ennis High School where she stayed with people by the name of Shewmaker. We walked to school in good weather and during the winter we had a horse we rode or hitched to the sled.
In the winter my grandfather, Allen Vincent, my father, and some of the neighbors would go down to the lake and saw out large blocks of ice. These were stored and covered with sawdust for our summer needs.
Another big event was butchering the hogs in the fall for our winter meat. We children took the hog bladders and after cleaning them, took a straw and inflated them for balloons. They were much stronger than the modern balloons, both in odor and material.
In 1915 our family, the Mont Gorhams, the Jack Morrison family and a friend, Clarence Lichte, traveled to Yellowstone Park in the spring wagons and one covered wagon. We were gone two weeks. What a wonderful way to see the country.
During the tragic flu epidemic, in 1919, came our dear mother's untimely death. We had friends in California, so my dad decided to leave Montana. We left that fall, in September, with the Jack Morrisons and Mont Gorhams and settled in Porterville, California.
My youngest sister, Agnes, was killed in a car accident in 1941. My father passed away in 1943. My sister, Bessie Brown Duncan, lives in Porterville. I married a native Californian.
Carl Brown"

Social Security Index on Rootsweb has:
CARL BROWN, b. 28 Feb 1908, d. May 1975 93257 (Porterville, Tulare,CA), last benefit - (none specified) 558-32-1892 issued California.

Obituary was published May 24, 1975 in the Porterville Evening Recorder. "A retired Porterville citrus grower, Carl Vincent Brown, 67, was dead on arrival at Sierra View District hospital after being stricken at his home in the Worth district.
Mr. Brown was born Feb. 29, 1908, in McAllister, Mont., and came to Porterville in 1919. He attended Porterville high school.
On Mar 10, 1928, he and Shirley Garver were married and lived on Old Stage Road, east of Terra Bella where he was foreman on the Pepper grove.
They moved to the Worth district east of Porterville in 1943 and had a citrus grove. They were preparing to move into a mobile home when Mr.Brown was stricken.
He is a member of Porterville lodge No. 303, Free and Accepted Masons, and of the First Christian Church of Porterville. Mr. Brown is a former director of the Porterville Citrus Association.
Survivors include his widow, Shirley Brown of Porterville; two sons, Roger E., also of this city, and Carl Adair Brown of Cedarville; one sister, Bessie Duncan of Porterville; and five grandchildren, Marcia and Carry Brown of Porterville, and Machelle, Mitchell and Melissa Brown of Cedarville.
The family prefers that remembrances be made in his name to the building fund of the First Christian Church, 289 North Third, Porterville; City of Hope, P.O. Box 949, Porterville; or to the favorite charity of the donor.
Funeral services will be announced from the Myers chapel.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 27, in the Myers chapel with Rev. Dennis Page, pastor of the First Christian church and the Porterville Masonic lodge officiating. Burial will be in the Home of Peace Cemetery." Copy in possession of the author.

Carl had cancer and was in poor shape, when a heart attack took his life. He was actually in the same hospital as his brother-in-law, when Everett had the surgery for his gall bladder and found he had advanced cancer.

On 8 May 2013 in a conversation with Barbara Duncan Fridlund, she remembered that Carl came to his sister's house (Bessie) and said that he had been outside when a hummingbird flew into his back so hard it was stuck. He had to have someone else remove it - and it was pretty painful.

Birth	29 Feb 1908	Madison Co., Montana
Census	15 Apr 1910	Meadow Creek, Madison Co., Montana
Census	1 Jan 1920	Springville, Tulare Co., California
Marriage	10 Mar 1928	Porterville, Tulare Co., California - Shirley Mildred GARVER
Census	1 Apr 1930	Strathmore Twp., Tulare Co., CA, ED 54-54, sh 5A; Carl, head, rents for $10, 22 (1908), married first time at 20, born MT, father born VT, mother born IA. Laborer on ranch, can read and write.
Death	23 May 1975	Porterville, Tulare Co., California
Burial	27 May 1975	Home of Peace Cemetery, Porterville, Tulare Co., CA
Reference No		117

Spouse	Shirley Mildred GARVER (1908 - 1984)
Child	Roger Earl BROWN (1933 - 1990)
Child	Living

Father	George N. BROWN (1866 - 1943)
Mother	Violet Lydia VINCENT (1881 - 1919)
Sibling	Bessie Violet BROWN (1900 - 1985)
Sibling	Clara "Twin" BROWN (1902 - 1902)
Sibling	Clifford "Twin" BROWN (1902 - 1902)
Sibling	Agnes Christine (Babe) BROWN (1906 - 1940)