LUCY BROWN may have been born in the 1830s; she was reportedly a young woman when the Mariposa Battalion entered Yosemite Valley in 1851. We have never been able learn the names of her parents and, if she had a maiden name, we never learned it. I doubt that she did. She died in Yosemite Valley on October 21, 1924.134

Death Certificate Transcribed by Steve Miller:
Mariposa County Bk 2 page 48
Yosemite National Park
Mrs. Lucy Brown (Indian) dod Oct 1924
sex: female marital status: widowed bp: unknown
age: relatives say 120 yrs old
occ: in house*
spouse: Bill Brown
father: unknown bp: unk
mother: " " bp: "
length of res: 120 yr est. in CA estimate
informant: Pete Hilliard (grandson) age 54yr
I hereby certify as to the person .................that on Oct 20, 1924 ........that I have investigated the death officially on account of (written over top of preprinted statement and is not
completely readable)
cause: Death due to natural causes on account of old age and
contraction of a cold.
physician: Dr. Elanda M. Churse(?) autopsy surgeon
Oct 21, 1924 Mariposa
pl of burial Yos Valley Ca, Oct 21, 1924
undertaker: US Gov Yosemite, CA

BILL BROWN may have been born at Red Cloud, not far from Coulterville to the Northwest of Yosemite. Often referred to as Captain Bill, he was a Miwok leader. He married Lucy, and they had at least two children, Johnny Brown and Nancy Maria Brown Wilson. He died in about 1899. He may have been a descendant of Chief Tenaya, although there is not any good information how his line of descendancy might be traced.134

Bill was aka Mono Tom Brown aka Capt Bill, a Miwok leader. He worked for a Greek that couldn't say Brandon so it became Brown134