Brown-Sides Family Tree: William M. Brown and Sarah Dupes Aughey

William M. Brown was born on 27 Dec 1828 in Milford, Juniata, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 24 Nov 1903 in Dakota City, Dakota, Nebraska, USA.

Sarah Dupes Aughey, daughter of Samuel Aughey and Elizabeth Kepner, was born on 08 Apr 1835 in Milford, Juniata, Pennsylvania, USA. She died on 16 Oct 1924 in Dakota City, Dakota, Nebraska, USA.

No information has turned up regarding William Brown’s family in Pennsylvania, except for the two photos at the bottom of this post. According to an old book, he was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Family history says that William and Sarah first came to Dakota County to visit relatives in 1870. While there they purchased eighty acres of raw prairie land about seven miles southwest of Dakota City for ten dollars an acre. They returned to Pennsylvania where William worked about five more years on the railroad. He and his family of five children then moved back to Dakota County in 1875 to establish a permanent home on the eighty acres of prairie land purchased on the earlier trip.

On arrival in Dakota County, William purchased a team of horses, harnesses, and a wagon. Using a 12 inch plow that he had brought from Pennsylvania, he proceeded to break ten to twenty acres of the prairie land each year to raise crops. Construction of a home was started in 1875 and completed in 1876. Additional land was acquired from time to time in the late 1800's and early 1900's until the farm totaled 320 acres.

From Werner's History of Dakota County, by M. M. Warner, 1893, page 293:

William Brown was born December 27, 1828, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Moved to Juniata county, 1835. Served as brakeman on the first railroad between Columbia and Philadelphia, and continued in the railroad service for many years as fireman, conductor, etc. In 1871 came to Dakota county to look up a home. Settled on the bottom southeast of Dakota City where he resides at the present time. Was elected county commissioner in 1884 and re-elected in 1887. Has six children living, Samuel A., Wesley, Mrs. Jacob Leamer, Mrs. Irvine Fisher, Frank P. and Harry.

William M. Brown and Sarah Dupes Aughey were married in 1851. They had the following children:

Samuel Aughey Brown was born on 09 Sep 1852 in Pennsylvania, USA. He married Jennie Wilson. He died in 1924.

Horace Wesley Brown was born on 10 Sep 1854.

William Ambrose Brown was born about 1857.

Teresa Begolia Brown was born on 27 Oct 1860. She married Jacob Fernando Leamer in 1885. She died in 1940.

Flora Leonetta Brown was born on 01 Jun 1865. She married Welcome Irving Fisher about 1883. She died on 07 Jun 1940.

Franklin Pierce Brown was born on 04 Aug 1870. He died on 23 Apr 1901.

Harry Edgar Brown was born on 05 Jan 1876 in Dakota City, Dakota, Nebraska, USA. He married Mabel Elizabeth Sides on 27 Dec 1900 in Salem Lutheran Church near Dakota City, Nebraska. He died on 23 Sep 1961 in Sioux City, Clay, Iowa, USA.