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WIEBKE (THOMSEN) BROWN


Wiebke (Thomsen) Brown

From Calumet county marriage records:
Lucien A. Brown and Wiebke Thomsen (v.3 p.274)
Married June 14, 1900 in religious ceremony at Saukville, Ozaukee County
Lucien A. Brown
Son of Ira Brown and Imocent Coffeen
Laborer at New Holstein
Born at Mankado, Minnesota
Wiebke Thomsen
Daughter of H. F. Thomsen and Dorothea Schaar
Born Town of New Holstein
Witnesses Wm. Henry Grady and Mrs. C. B. Schuh
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From Calumet county death records:
Lucien A. Brown (v.11 p.283)
Husband of Dora Thomsen
June 19, 1870-Dec. 13, 1943
Son of Ira Brown and Inocent Coffen (both born Fond du Lac County)
Born Mankato, Minnesota –farmer 
Died from “influenza pneumonitis –cardiovascular renal disease”
Buried at New Holstein Cemetery
(Note: In the marriage record Dora is called Wiebke)
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From Calumet county death records:
Dora Brown nee Thomsen (v.12 p.218)
Wife of Lucien Brown
July 21, 1868-March 28, 1948
Daughter of Hans Frederick Thomsen and Dorothea Schaar (both born Germany)
Born Town of New Holstein
Died from “coronary occlusion –arteriosclerosis”
Buried at New Holstein Cemetery
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Mrs. Lucian Brown, 69, nee Dora Thomson, died Sunday 
at her home in New Holstein. She had suffered a heart
attack on Saturday. 
The daughter of Hans Frederick and Dorthea Thomson, 
the deceased was born July 21, 1868, in the town of New Holstein. 
She attended the district schools in the town of Charlestown and 
New Holstein, and on June 14, 1900, was married to Lucian Brown 
at Port Washington. The couple lived at Port Washington for one 
year, at Plymouth for one year, and in 1903 moved to the Thomson 
homestead, one and one- half miles northeast of New Holstein. 
Since the death of her husband on Dec. 19, 1943, she 
made her home in New Holstein. 
Only immediate survivor is a sister, Mrs. John Drews of New Holstein. 
Funeral services will be held at the Erbe-Hoffman Funeral home, 
with the Rev. J. R. Seidler, pastor of St. Johns Evangelical and 
Reformed Church, officiating. Interment will be made in the New 
Holstein city cemetery. 
Sheboygan Press March 28, 1948 


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