Ralph L. Brown, <^[1]

1908 - 1980  (72 years)

• Name	Ralph L. Brown
  Suffix	<
  Born	6 Jan 1908	CT   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Census	1910	New Haven City, New Haven, New Haven, CT   [3]
  	He was living with his parents.
  Census	1920	Bellport, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [1]
  	Address: Bell avenue
  	He was living with his parents.
  Education	1928	Patchogue, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [4]
  	Address: the Patchogue High School
  Census	1930	Bellport, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [5]
  	Address: Bell street
  	He was living with his parents. He was a salesman in a hardware store.
  Military	Abt Jun 1944–DEC 1945	WW II   [6, 7, 8]
  	Address: the U. S. Army
  	He was sounded in Europe.
  Died	3 Sep 1980	Patchogue, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [2]
  Buried	Brookhaven (Oaklawn Cemetery), Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [9]
  	Address: Lot 002
  Person ID	I13809	Brookhaven & South Haven Hamlets
  Last Modified	30 Nov 2012

  
  

  Father	Robert L. Brown, ^,   b. 13 Mar 1881, NY ,   d. May 1973, Bellport, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY  (Age 92 years)
  Mother	Josephine Palmer, ^,   b. Abt 1881/2, NY ,   d. Abt 1930  (Age ~ 48 years)
  Married	Abt 1907  [1, 3, 5]
  	In 1910, they had had one child who was still living.
  Headstones		#021.002.Brown01: Robert L. and Josephine Brown gravestone Plot: 002. Robert Brown
  Family ID	F5032	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Doris Coleman,   b. Abt 1910, NY ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Engaged	Dec 1931  [10]
  	While Ralph L. Brown was engaged to Doris Coleman, they apparently were never married. Newspaper accounts of Ralph Brown do not include mentions of his wife. In 1944, he was said to be unmarried.]
  Family ID	F5033	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Headstones

  #021.002.Brown02: Ralph Brown grave marker Plot: 002.Robert Brown

  
  

• Sources

  [S107] 1920 Census (Heritage), Ancestry.com., Census Place: Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York; Roll: T625_1268; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 85; Image: 625. [S6] SS Death Index, SS # 072-16-7525. It is not certain that this record is for the present Ralph Brown, but it is likely. [S104] 1910 Census, Census Place: New Haven Ward 4, New Haven, Connecticut; Roll: T624_139; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 393; Image: 344. [S604] Suffolk County News (Sayville), 18 Dec 1931, p. 5. Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Coleman of Patchogue announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Doris, to Ralph L. Brown, son of Robert Brown, of Bellport. The young people are both graduates of the Patchogue High School in the class of 1928, and Miss Coleman is a granddaughter of Captain Albert Tuthill of Sayville. [S129] 1930 Census, Census Place: Bellport, Suffolk, New York; Roll: 1650; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 19; Image: 10.0. [S127] Advance, Long Island, 6 Dec 1945, p. 8. Pfc. Ralph Brown of Bellport, who received his honorable discharge from the Army at Fort Dix, N. J. arrived at his home on Bell street Monday morning. He was overseas 18 months, three months of which, were passed in a hospital in England, where he recovered from wounds received in battle in Europe. [S127] Advance, Long Island, 16 Sep 1943, p. 14. He was recently inducted. [S127] Advance, Long Island, 24 August 1944, p. 1. Ralph Brown, Bellport, Is Wounded In France Writes Father From Hospital In England That He Was Hit In Shoulder—Has Been Awarded Purple Heart Pfc. Ralph Brown, aged 35, has been wounded in action in France, according to a letter received from him Monday by his father, Robert Brown of Bell street, Bellport. In the letter, which was the first news the father had had of his son having been wounded, Private Brown says he has been awarded the Order of the Purple Heart and is sending it home. The letter was written from a hospital in England. Declaring that "the Jerry got me," Prifate Brown wrote highly in praise of the "medics," the Army medical corps, for the treatment he received after being wounded in the shoulder. A graduate of Bellport Grade school and of Patchogue High school, Private Brown for several years assisted his father in the hardware business in Bellport, and was employed in a war industrial plant in Connecticut just before entering the Army. He is unmarried. [S196] Oaklawn Cemetery. [S604] Suffolk County News (Sayville), 18 Dec 1931, p. 5. Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Coleman of Patchogue announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Doris, to Ralph L. Brown, son of Robert Brown, of Bellport. The young people are both graduates of the Patchogue High School in the class of 1928, and Miss Coleman is a granddaughter of Captain Albert Tuthill of Sayville. In a newspaper article reporting on Ralph Brown being wounded in Europe during WW II, he was reported as being unmarried.