Descendants of John Brown GEDCOM lists Francis's wife as Frances E. Meek.
Civil War Listing: Recruit, H, 84 IL US Inf. from Ohio Grove, Mercer County, IL. Date of Muster: 1 MAR 1864, remarks: killed at Pine Mountain, Georgia, 24 JUN 1864.[1]
An inscription about him is on the side of his father's tombstone in McPherren Cemetery (Ohio Grove Township, Mercer County, Illinois):
Brother, Hugh Welker Brown was beside him in battle when he was killed
Francis was killed on Kenesaw Mountain in Georgia.
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Categories: 84th Regiment, Illinois Infantry, United States Civil War | Killed in Action, United States of America, United States Civil War