"HISTORY OF OWEN COUNTY 1884"
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

CLAY TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
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ELIHU C. BROWN, is a native of Clay Township, Owen Co., Ind., is the sixth
son of David and Sarah (Litton) Brown of North Carolina and was born
March 15, 1840. So far in life he has been a farmer. His education,
which was limited to the elementary studies, was acquired at the public
schools of his neighborhood.
March 16, 1861, he was married in Monroe County, Ind., to Sarah 
Hansford, by whom he has had born to him seven children--Uriah H, Ninnie
Belle, Verma Dell, Luella, Oscar, Stella Blanch and Ida May. Mr. Brown
owns a nice farm of eighty five acres upon which he lives but a few
hundred years from the house in which he was born. In politics, he is
an uncompromising Democrat, and for President of the United States his
first vote was cast for S. A. Douglas. Subject is a self made man, and
is one of Clay Township's very best citizens.

DATA ENTRY: Debbie Jennings