Notes for Lewis Garret Brown

Notes for Lewis Garret Brown

Notes from Kurt Schelle, Jr. family notes:
Lewis Garret is mentioned in the 1880 U.S. Census. Wife's obituary says he died in 1880. Lewis Garret Brown was a farmer in Centre Twonship, St. Joseph County, Indiana, which is now at the western edge of South Bend. As stated earlier we have not details on his lineage other than his father's name was Lewis also. However, his middle name was Garret. Since this is normal and Irish surname it may have been his mother's family name. I have been told by my mother and grandmother that we have Irish blood in our heritige. This may be one of the sources. Lewis Garret was an avowed atheist. He refusd to permit prayer, church affiliation, and the Bible in his home. However his wife managed to instill some of her religious convictions in her children. He was one of the group that founded Mt. Pleasant Cemetery on the west side of South Bend. Today it is still a small semi-private cemetery with many members of the Brown family buried there. A fire in the Sexton's house, during the early 1920's, destroyed the records so that many family plots could not be used after the fire because it was uncertain where the unused graves were in some of the family plots. This is true of the plot that contains the remains of Lewis Garret, Trypena Letitia Jester Brown, and five of my mother's infant brothers and sisters.