Laura Barber Brown left of door, taken at Frank and Laura's home.

L to R Charles, Josephine Barber, Laura Brown, Julia Eble Brown, and Frank Brown taken about 15 Jun 1913

710. Laura L.¹⁰ BARBER (Bradford Adalbert "John"⁹, Thomas⁸, Benjamin B.⁷, Thomas⁶, Thomas⁵, Moses⁴, James A.³, James T.², Thomas¹) (#34) was born in Springfield Twp., Williams Co., OH. 27 APR 1860. Laura died 5 NOV 1915 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH, at age 55. Her body was interred NOV 1915 in Calvary Cem., Cleveland, OH.

She married Franklin William "Frank" Jr. BROWN 3 APR 1882 in Williams Co., OH. (Franklin William "Frank" Jr. BROWN is #241.) Franklin was born 29 MAR 1854 in Rochester, NY. Franklin was the son of Frank William Sr. BROWN and Janette CAMPBELL. Franklin died 6 JUN 1929 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH, at age 75. His body was interred 10 JUN 1929 in Calvary Cem., Cleveland, OH. Frank was employed at the Stryker electrical station that provided electricity for the interurbans that ran through town. He then relocated to the Cleveland OH. and worked for the City of Cleveland Light and Power as Supt. of Electric Plant. He was a stationary engineer. On the 1900 Cuyahoga he list his middle name with an S.

She was baptized 1860. When Laura was age 23 and Franklin William "Frank" Jr. BROWN was age 29 they became the parents of Charles Franklin BROWN 30 AUG 1883 in Stryker, Williams Co., OH. His 1st marriage certificate list his birth location as Williams Co., OH, His second marriage certificate list Cleveland, OH. Yes confusing but I am going with Stryker, Williams Co., OH Finding the date of Frank's first day of employment at the City of Cleveland would answer this confusing question.

First marriage was done by a priest, second marriage by a J.P.

Also his death certificate list date of birth as 30 AUG 1885? When Laura and Frank married they built a home just to the right or west of her mothers home and this new home was at the SE corner of Northwest St. and Curtis St. in Stryker, OH This house is still there. They later moved to Cleveland, OH Frank was Supt. of Power at Stryker for the Interurban RR, then he took the Supt. position at the City of Cleveland Electric.

Taken from the pension papers of Bradford Barber from the National Archives of the United States

The State of Ohio, Williams County. On this 4th Day of May 1869 personally appeared before me O.M. Smith a Justice of the Peace in and for said county estate. Sophia Meeks (sister of Jane) a resident of said Williams County, a person whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who herein by me duly sworn says that she was for 16 years well acquainted with Bradford Barber, deceased late a private of company D of the 10th regiment of Ohio Volunteer Calvary, and with his wife, late his widow and now the wife of David F. Brown, that she was called to attend to the said wife of said decedent, in travail on the 27th day of April 1860 that she went to the house of said Bradford Barber then and found his wife then there in childbed, having given birth to a girl whose name is Laura L. that said child, Laura L. Barber, was born about one half hour before said affiant got within the house of said Bradford Barber, that no other person was in the house when she got there, except the mother of said infant and that she gave said child the first washing, that no physician was present at the birth of said child. She further has no interest, directly or indirectly, in the prosecution of the claim for pension of said Laura L. Barber Signed by "X", Sophia Meek.

Grandpa Charles and Grandma Jo Barber said his Aunt Laura had the nicest personallity of all his aunt's on both sides of his and her family.

cause of death listed as peritonites

Laura L. BARBER and Franklin William "Frank" Jr. BROWN had the following child:

Charles F. Brown

+ 874 i. Charles Franklin¹¹ BROWN was born 30 AUG 1883.

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