Abram Brown estate mystery U.K. to Virginia
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Abram Brown estate mystery U.K. to Virginia
The Peoria, Illinois Journal prints a lengthy article relating to the$1,500,000 fortune awaiting the heirs of Abram Brown. Perhaps it will interest some of our readers to learn who Abram Brown was, for there are a few of our old citizens of Zanesville (Ohio) who will remember him.
He came here with his family from Loudon county, Va., in 1830, lived here for several years, then went west and died in Peoria, Illinois, in 1849, at the good old age of 93 years. He was said to be one of the most corpulent men in the world, weighed 408 pounds and during the latter part of his life was unable to attend to any kind of business. He brought one slave from Virginia to take care of him. Abram Brown was the father of the late Isaac M. Brown and grandfather to John T. Brown, Engineer at the Ohio Iron Furnace; also grandfather to that prince of printers, Isaac N. Underwood of the Newark Anerican.
The Journal says, many years ago, three brothers (Quakers) came to America from England, where they were left a large amount of property. They settled in Loudon county, Virginia; one of them married and soon after died. The other two died bachelors so that left Abram Brown, the only son of their brother, sole heir to this large estate. Abram had often heard of this estate, but never paid any attention to it.
During President Fillmore's Administration Isaac M. Brown was employed in the U. S. Patent office. While there he received letters from England asking if he knew where the records of this property were, and he replied he did not. Nothing more was done until about two years ago. England sent an agent to this country and he hunted for eight months for some clue to the records, but some of the papers were missing until about one year ago, a deputy visited Bloomington, Ills., where he found Mrs. Vellie Tucker, aged 86, the eldest child of Abram Brown. This lady, in looking over her father's effects,found the old original papers that the Brown brothers had brought with them from England so long ago. The agent took the records and in a short time wrote back to Bloomington that everything was satisfactory and it would be but a short time until the children of Abram Brown, of whom there were eight, five of them living, will fall heir to $1,500,000
Zanesville Daily Courier, published: Zanesville, Ohio
Monday, Feb 2, 1885
I would appreciate any help.
He came here with his family from Loudon county, Va., in 1830, lived here for several years, then went west and died in Peoria, Illinois, in 1849, at the good old age of 93 years. He was said to be one of the most corpulent men in the world, weighed 408 pounds and during the latter part of his life was unable to attend to any kind of business. He brought one slave from Virginia to take care of him. Abram Brown was the father of the late Isaac M. Brown and grandfather to John T. Brown, Engineer at the Ohio Iron Furnace; also grandfather to that prince of printers, Isaac N. Underwood of the Newark Anerican.
The Journal says, many years ago, three brothers (Quakers) came to America from England, where they were left a large amount of property. They settled in Loudon county, Virginia; one of them married and soon after died. The other two died bachelors so that left Abram Brown, the only son of their brother, sole heir to this large estate. Abram had often heard of this estate, but never paid any attention to it.
During President Fillmore's Administration Isaac M. Brown was employed in the U. S. Patent office. While there he received letters from England asking if he knew where the records of this property were, and he replied he did not. Nothing more was done until about two years ago. England sent an agent to this country and he hunted for eight months for some clue to the records, but some of the papers were missing until about one year ago, a deputy visited Bloomington, Ills., where he found Mrs. Vellie Tucker, aged 86, the eldest child of Abram Brown. This lady, in looking over her father's effects,found the old original papers that the Brown brothers had brought with them from England so long ago. The agent took the records and in a short time wrote back to Bloomington that everything was satisfactory and it would be but a short time until the children of Abram Brown, of whom there were eight, five of them living, will fall heir to $1,500,000
Zanesville Daily Courier, published: Zanesville, Ohio
Monday, Feb 2, 1885
I would appreciate any help.