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The information for this story came from Leona Brown Crawford, daughter and Dorothy Lewis Will, granddaughter of Charles K Brown.C. K. Brown (CK) and his family lived in many places in an almost itinerant fashion.  The 1930's found his family's home in Arkansas, where they had lived when son Charles Raymond ("Dutch") was born in Eureka Springs in 1905.  At a certain point the adult Dutch decided to move back to Arkansas from Indiana then pursuaded his father to bring the rest of the family to live there too.After living there for a time, CK decided it was time to return to Indiana.  Whether Mamie, his wife, thought better of another move or because he told her to remain there until he found a place in Indiana, CK struck out on his own.  Not having a license or a car (or perhaps the money to pay to travel by train or bus), he found a person in Arkasas that would take him by private car. As it happened the pair was involved in an auto accident on their journey to Indiana.  Because the driver was an underage woman and the accident occurred across the Arkansas state line somewhere in Missouri, Illinois, or Indiana, CK was charged with a crime.He was tried and sentenced to a few years in prison.  Upon his release he returned to his wife, who at that point refused to have him back.  He them decided to leave for the west to become a sheep herder.  Dorothy says he in fact always talked about going west to Colorado Springs, Colorada, so he may have ended up there.Leona recalls meeting her father two times before she never saw him again.  The first when he came to visit her and her mother when they were living together in South Bend, Indiana.  He requested a reconcilation but Mamie declined. The very last time was when he visited his daughter Lizzie's home to say his goodbyes to his family.Over the years Dutch made attempts to locate his father, but never had success. So the whereabouts and final resting place of C. K. Brown remain a mystery to this very day.Posted on 25 Aug 2013, rolfecmsChicago, Cook, Illinois, USA