Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Forest Clinton Brown ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Forest Clinton Brown
LAST NAME: Brown FIRST NAME: Forest MIDDLE NAME: Clinton NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: M MILITARY: 
BORN: 23 Nov 1891 DIED: 11 Apr 1951 BURIED: 14 Apr 1951
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Truck Driver
BIRTH PLACE:  Catlettsburg, Boyd Co., Kentucky
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

Name of father Manfred Brown 
Maiden name of mother Lizzie Williams 

1900 KY CENSUS Forest Brown (b Feb 1890, Kentucky) enumerated with parents Manferd (b June 1866, Kentucky, married 14y, blacksmith) and Elizabeth (b Nov 1869, Kentucky, mother of 5 children, 4 living at time of census) and 3 siblings, all born in Kentucky, Eadie (b oct 1892), Thomas (b Nov 1895) and Ella (b Feb 1898)

1910 OR CENSUS Forest Brown (19y, b Kentucky, laborer) enumerated as roomer with Ruben Troxel family

MARRIAGE Forest Brown (21y, of Plainview, Oregon, b Oregon, farmer) and Adline McClennen (19y, of Plainview, Oregon, b Kentucky) md 14 July 1911, Albany, Linn co, Oregon

WWI Draft Registration Card Forest Clinton Brown, 25y, of Independence, Polk Co, Oregon; b 23 Nov 1892, Moorehead, Kentucky; farm laborer; dependents wife & 2 children, aged 3y & 1y

1920 OR CENSUS - Forrest Brown, age 29, occupation farm laborer, b. Kentucky, is enumerated with wife Adeline, age 24, b. Kentucky, along with children Wendal, age 5, b. Oregon, Lucile, age 3, b. Oregon, and Esther, age 1, b. Oregon. 
1930 OR CENSUS - Forrest Brown, age 38, married at age 21, occupation truck driver, b. Kentucky, is enumerated with wife Aldine, age 37, married at age 18, b. Kentucky, along with Wendell, age 15, b. Oregon, Lucile, age 13, b. Oregon, Esther, age 11, b. Oregon, Glen, age 8, b. Oregon, Jeannette, age 5, b. Oregon, and Helen, age 3, b. Oregon. 
1940 OR CENSUS - F. C. Brown, age 49, occupation trucker, b. Kentucky, is enumerated with his wife Nancy, age 47, b. Kentucky, along with Helen, age 13, b. Oregon, and Forrest, Jr., age 7, b. Oregon.

WWII Draft Registration Card Forest Clinton Brown, 50y, of 2396 N Front St, Salem, Oregon; b 23 Nov 1891, Redbush, Kentucky; person who knows address Mrs Nancy Brown, 2396 N Front St, Salem

OBITUARY: 

Final rites for Forrest Clinton Brown Sr, 58, will be held at 3 pm Saturday at Howell-Edwards chapel. Brown died Wednesday at his home at 2396 N Front st. He had been ill for five months. A Salem resident for 20 years, he operated a trucking business here for many years, worked in shipyards during World Wat II and recently was a city street department employee. Deceased was born Nov 23, 1892, at Catlettsburg, Ky, and moved to McMinnville in 1900, later living at Independence where he married Nancy A. McClennen on July 14, 1911. Surviving besides his widow are four daughters, Mrs Helen Mulligan, Salem, Mrs Loucile McIntyre, Eddyville, Mrs Esther Wright, Goshen, and Mrs Jeanette Mann, Sheridan; three sons, Wendell, Glenn and Forrest Jr, all of Salem; two sisters, Mrs Ann Cadwell, Salem, and Mrs Edith Diecer, San Mateo, calif; a brother, Thomas Brown, Condon, and 11 grandchildren. Interment will be at Odd Fellows cemetery.

Oregon Statesman, Friday, April 13, 1952, 2:3

INSCRIPTION: 

Brown
Forest C.
1892 - 1951
[shares marker with Nancy]

SOURCES: 

LR 
OSBH DC (Marion Co. 1951) #4326 

1900 KY CENSUS (Morgan Co, District 5, ED 75, sheet 13B)

1910 OR CENSUS (Polk Co, Independence, ED 250, sheet 8B)

Oregon Marriage Records (Ancestry.com)

WWI Draft Registration Card (Ancestry.com)

1920 OR CENSUS (Polk Co., Independence, ED 368, sheet 6B) 
1930 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, ED 65, sheet 24A) 
1940 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, ED 26, sheet 13A)

WWII Draft Registration Card (Ancestry.com)

OS, 13 Apr 1952, 2:3

CONTACTS: 
Wayne Douglas, 2510 Dalke Ridge Dr. NW, Salem, OR 97304
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