Willie Pond Brown, b: 1879 - Summer County, TN

^{1914 - 1918 World War I}
^{1922 USSR formed by Soviet states}
^{1939 - 1945 World War II}
^{1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)}
^{1950 Korean War begins}

^{1871 Franco - Prussian War}
^{1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy}
^{1899 Boer War begins}
^{1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight}
^{1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage}

^{1815 Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon defeat}
^{1830 French Revolution}
^{1837 Queen Victoria assumes throne}
^{1854 Crimean War with Russia}
^{1869 Opening of Suez Canal}


			^{Bernhard Heinrich Holke}^{b.1813 Westercappein, BRD d.1879 St. Charles Co., MO}

		^{Herman Frederick Holke}^{b.1846 Femme Osage, MO d.1929 Clay, MO}	^{Regina Margaret Rahmeier}^{b.1810 Westercappein, BRD d.1853 St. Charles Co., MO}

	^{William Henry Holke}^{b.1870 Marthasville, MO d.1943 Oklahoma City, OK}

^{Norman Neal Holke}^{b.1905 Independence, Mo. d.1982 Salina, Saline County, KS}		^{Christine Elizabeth Woestemeyer}^{b.1849 Marthasville, MO d.1905 Higginsville, MO}

^{Elsa Elizabeth Holke}^{b.1909 d.1954}

^{Mary Eglah Holke}^{b. Private d.}

	^{Willie Pond Brown}^{b.1879 Summer Co., TN d.1940 Edinburg, TX}