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46. Louisa BOYD was born on Nov 9, 1868 in , Marion Co., Ohio. She died on Jan 28, 1908 in Urbana, , Ohio. appearantley married F.L. Brown of Marion Ohio. Had daughter Francis L. Brown 8-26-1903. From Marion birth records made available by Mr. Tim Brown.

BR: 1-Marion County Birth Records DR: 1-Eleanor Berkshire 2-LAB info

"As a young woman she studied the piano and became very adept. She married my father's next younger brother Frank and they had two children."-LAB

"She and Uncle Frank with their children Sarah and Francis (not Frank) for several years lived next to cousin Walter. Later they moved to Urbana, Ohio where Uncle Frank managed a nickelodeon and where Aunt Lou died of uremic poisoning."-LAB

Frank L. BROWN (son of Tom Jones BROWN and Sarah LONG) was born in 1859. He died about 1944 in Detroit, , Michigan. Information from LAB- "My uncle Frank, after Aunt Louisa died, he came back to Marion from Urbana. He had a dairy route and I worked for him for a couple of years driving the horse and wagon out to the countryside and picking up the milk and then helping to deliver it. It was about 1910-11, the year Jack Johnson defeated Jim Jefferies. My Uncle Frank left me in the milk wagon while he went into the saloon to get a beer and when he came out he had the news that this horrible black man had knocked out Jefferies. Then Uncle Frank after he had his milk route in Marion moved to Detroit and he had...don't know what kind of business there but he died later in Detroit (1944 or 1948)."-LAB

"He ran a nickelodeon movie house in Urbana."-LAB "As a young man Frank jumped from the high seat of a circus van to disentangle the harness of the four horses and broke both his ankles. His ankles were never set properly which caused him to walk with a peculair bow-legged gait."-LAB Louisa BOYD and Frank L. BROWN had the following children:

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Sarah BROWN.

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Francis L. BROWN.

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