On 21 January 1890, Anna's first husband, Monrad Mikelson died in Melsomvik, Norway, leaving Anna with four young girls to raise: Klara (b. 1880), Christine (b. 1885), Agnetta (b. 1887), and Marta (b. 1888). Monrad's brother Peter owned a farm in the Township of Russell, near Bayfield, Wisconsin, and told his sister-in-law Anna to bring the girls to Bayfield and he would help them. Anna and her four girls immigrated to Bayfield in 1894. ®9883 Anna worked at a boarding house in Roy's Point, near the Township of Russell, and later, on 2 September 1896, married the owner John A. Brown. Anna became a naturalized citizen in 1897. ®9883. Daughter Klara married Andrew J. Peterson on 22 August 1896. ®9899 The three single Mikelson girls helped at the boarding house as they got older. John and Anna had a daughter of their own, named Mary Brown (b. 1897). ®5374 In 1900 Anna was Auntie (sic) Brown, who lived with John A. Brown on Fifth Street in Bayfield, had been married 4 years and had 7 children (3 with John Brown) of whom 6 were alive. (Christina A., 14, Aggie H. 12, Marta, 11, Mary, 3, and Charles, 2 months, lived at home, and Klara was married and had left home). ®9704 On 1 June 1905 she had three daughters named Mickleson and one daughter named Brown. ®9713On 15 April 1910 she had borne 8 children (4 with John Brown), with 5 still alive. She was employed at a boarding house in Red Cliff, Wisconsin. ®9714 On 1 April 1930 John Brown, 78, and Anna Brown, 71, lived alone in a house he rented for $3 a month on Sixth Street in Bayfield, Wisconsin. ®9872