Show Mrs Minnie Brown Observes Birthday One of oi Utah's Oldest COAL COALVILLE n A T I I Mrs Minnie Peterson Brown Drown I observed her sixth ninety-sixth birthday birthday birth birth- i day Thursday at the home of a daughter Mrs Viola Z Mabey One of Utah's oldest citizens Mrs Brown Is one ope of ot Utah's five immigrant pioneers She came to this state In 1866 A native of Fredericia Denmark Denmark Denmark Den Den- mark she celebrated her first birthday in New York City She ahe he was born July 6 C 1885 1835 daughter 0 of oZ Andrew and Dortha D Peterson She was vaS named Caroline but has always been known as Minnie She sailed with her parents a sister and two brothers with Scandinavian converts to the Church on the tho Hamburg Lines ship The family came by ox team to Salt Lake City arriving Oct 1 l 1866 and they first lived in a alog alog alog log house at the Liberty Park site Later they lived in a dugout at Mill Creek At the age of 4 4 in 1869 the ilie family moved to Io a farm near Kamas Kamas Kamas Ka Ka- mas and farmed at Marion Marlon and Wanship In 1880 they homesteaded homesteaded homesteaded home home- a place on the banks of the Weber where Rockport Lake is now located On July 31 1884 she was mar mar- marJ J I i tied ried to George Brown But Dut instead Instead In in- stead of moving Into a new home homent at nt Hoytsville they were called on ona ona onn a n mission to St. St Johns In 1886 1880 they returned and built a brick home on a farm south of ot Coal Coal- vile Mr Brown died July 3 3 1910 The Browns had six children George W. W Brown Drown Mary Eliza Elza Darnett deceased Caroline Sargent Sargent Sar Bar gent Viola Mrs Mr Mabey drace Grace Webb and Orloe Otto deceased I I |