 Their first child, Lawrence Palmer Brown, nicknamed Larry, was born on August 30, 1887 in his maternal grandparents' four room cottage near the Mississippi River in Hannibal, Missouri.Larry married Eileen Elizabeth Horton (1890–1985) on January 1, 1911 in Kansas City, Missouri.They had two children, Lawrence Palmer "Pat" Brown Jr. (1911–1976) and Elizabeth "Betty" Brown (1913–1974).