On 15 April 1910 Stephen Brown, a 56 year old stock picker in a saw mill lived with his wife Minerva?, 56, on Roy’s Point Road in Bayfield, Wisconsin. This was the second marriage for both, having been married 5 years. Stephen had emigrated in 1900 and was a naturalized citizen.429 They lived in Bayfield until at least 1918, but by 1920 they had left Bayfield.

On 15 April 1910 she had been married for five years to Stephen Brown. She was 56 years old and had 7 children by her first marriage, 6 of whom were still alive. Her father was from French Canada and her mother from New York.429