Noble Aredell Brown

Brief Life History of Noble Aredell

When Noble Aredell Brown was born on 24 July 1921, in Bedford, Shawswick Township, Lawrence, Indiana, United States, his father, Charles Grover Brown, was 37 and his mother, Lillian Olive Dowling, was 36. He lived in Bloomington, Perry Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States in 1940 and Indianapolis, Custer, Oklahoma, United States in 1998. He died on 4 November 2000, in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Valhalla Memory Gardens, Bloomington Township, Monroe, Indiana, United States.

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Noble Aredell Brown
1921–2000
Edna Mae Brashear
1921–1994

Sources (10)

  • Nobel Brown, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Noble Brown, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
  • Noble Aredell Brown, "Indiana, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947"

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World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1941 · Comanche Code Talkers

Many Native Americans from Oklahoma were once again employed as code talkers during WWII to create a code impenetrable by enemies. Rather than Choctaw, a Comanche-language code was developed. Several of these men were sent to invade Normandy to send messages. None of the men were killed and the Comanche code was never broken. 

1942 · The Japanese American internment

Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, and Irish: generally a nickname referring to the color of the hair or complexion, Middle English br(o)un, from Old English brūn or Old French brun. This word is occasionally found in Old French, Middle English and Old Norse as a personal name or byname (Middle English personal name Brun, Broun, ancient Germanic Bruno, Old English Brūn, or possibly Old Norse Brúnn or Brúni). Brun- was also an ancient Germanic name-forming element. Some instances of Old English Brūn as a personal name may therefore be short forms of compound names such as Brūngar, Brūnwine, etc. As a Scottish and Irish name, it sometimes represents a translation of Gaelic Donn (see below). Brown (including in the senses below) is the fourth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below).

Irish and Scottish: adopted for Ó Duinn (see Dunn ) or for any of the many Irish and Scottish Gaelic names containing the element donn ‘brown-haired’ (also meaning ‘chieftain’), for example Donahue .

Irish: phonetic Anglicization of Mac an Bhreitheamhnaigh; see Breheny .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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