Nicholas Brown, Full Corporal, Company D, 1st Michigan Infantry, 8900 Cedar River Road Mancelona, Michigan 49659 Old Mancelona Cemetery (GPS N44°54.1041, W085°04.2468) - If your veteran is not included on this website, please take a photo, create a free account and upload all the information you can share. If you would like more information or have information to share on this Veteran, send an email via the contact form on this website with your request.

U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles about Nicholas Brown
Name: Nicholas Brown
Residence: Jackson County, Michigan
Age at enlistment: 24
Enlistment Date: 7 Apr 1861
Rank at enlistment: Private
Enlistment Place: Jackson, MI
State Served: Michigan
Was POW?: Yes
Was Wounded?: Yes
Survived the War?: Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in Company D, Michigan 1st Infantry Regiment on 16 Sep 1861.
Promoted to Full Corporal.
Mustered out on 01 Jun 1865.
Birth Date: abt 1837
Death Date: 1 May 1902
Sources: Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers 1861-65
Nicholas Brown was discharged for wounds on 6/1/1865
He was listed as:
POW 6/27/1862 Gaines' Mill, VA
Wounded 6/27/1862 Gaines' Mill, VA
Wounded 9/30/1864 Poplar Springs Church, VA

Nicholas Brown was a harness maker, married 28 years and father of 7 children.
http://seekingmichigan.org/u?/p129401coll7,192865

Nicholas Brown had a harness shop in Mancelona where his son Will helped. This was where Derrer's garage is now across the north-south street from the library in downtown Mancelona.
Nicholas came to Mancelona from Hastings and Woodland in Barry County. He enlisted for the Civil War in Baltimore which is the township south of Hastings.
From the census the age of Nicholas (spelled Nicholus on the census) is 43 so matches his birthday as in his obituary of the Mancelona Herald of May 8, 1902. This is also where the month and day of his death came from as well as the date he married Samatha Tanner in Hastings. The obituary also has that they settled at Woodland which is where Mary Ellen Heath Rivers grandparents also came from. She says it was a German community at that time.
The 1880 Census is used for the birth years by subtracting the reported age except for Lena who is given as 8 in the census but I had a year from somewhere (tombstone?). But it could be wrong with actual year not remembered. The census changes the relative ages of most of the children as gotten from Bessie Brown. Those that I had a year for and which matched the census age were left as is and those that didn't are marked as "about" since could have been born in the later part of the previous year and yet to have their birthday at the time of the census. Census has Easoton rather than Easton but most likely a misspelling? Census has only Lena for Olena May.
1880 census has Bavern as Nicholas's birthplace whereas the LDS member supplied birthplace is Stockheim, Unterfranken, Bayern. The LDS member supplied name is Nikolaus Breun. I retained Braun for Olena May's name since I think I got that from her tombstone.
An obituary has that he left Woodland and his harness business there in March 1882 and started the new one in Mancelona.
The parents of Nicholas come from church member's information. It has them as Alois Breun and Magdalena Krieg. This would seem to fit with Nicholas's daughter Olena called Lena since could be a shortened version of Magdalena.