Reported age at time of death was 76 years, so evidently born about 1797.
Mary Jane Galer's list of persons buried in the Old Cemetery section of Linwood shows: Mrs. BROWN, Sr., died aged 76 years of "old age"; interred 17 MAR 1873 - Sexton James LYNAH.
This individual could POSSIBLY be the Jennie BROWN (aged 71 years) in the 1870 census household of William Riley BROWN:
1870 census of Columbus Muscogee County, Georgia, shows (all reported born in Georgia): William R. BROWN (aged 48 years), master machinist at foundry holding $14,000 in real estate and $1,000 in personal estate, with [children] William B. BROWN, Jr. (17), Carrie E[ugenia] BROWN (13), both going to school; [likely mother] Jennie BROWN (71), [evident sisters] Caroline [M. "Carrie"] (40) & [Mary] Elizabeth BROWN (33), both seamstresses; Virginia BELAND (28), also a seamstress; Black domestic servants Jane WILLIAMS (45), Columbus (13), Griffin (13), and Eveline (14).
This grave is evidently not identifiably marked. Dolores Autry's "Historic Linwood Cemetery" manuscript (unpublished version) reports 2 adult "slabs" [= adult-sized plain ledger grave markers] and 1 baby "slab," none of which have any markings, in the "W. R. BROWN" lot (her Section I, Lot 93, which is located in the Old Cemetery section.
Mary Jane Galer's list of persons buried in the Old Cemetery section of Linwood shows: Mrs. BROWN, Sr., died aged 76 years of "old age"; interred 17 MAR 1873 - Sexton James LYNAH.
This individual could POSSIBLY be the Jennie BROWN (aged 71 years) in the 1870 census household of William Riley BROWN:
1870 census of Columbus Muscogee County, Georgia, shows (all reported born in Georgia): William R. BROWN (aged 48 years), master machinist at foundry holding $14,000 in real estate and $1,000 in personal estate, with [children] William B. BROWN, Jr. (17), Carrie E[ugenia] BROWN (13), both going to school; [likely mother] Jennie BROWN (71), [evident sisters] Caroline [M. "Carrie"] (40) & [Mary] Elizabeth BROWN (33), both seamstresses; Virginia BELAND (28), also a seamstress; Black domestic servants Jane WILLIAMS (45), Columbus (13), Griffin (13), and Eveline (14).
This grave is evidently not identifiably marked. Dolores Autry's "Historic Linwood Cemetery" manuscript (unpublished version) reports 2 adult "slabs" [= adult-sized plain ledger grave markers] and 1 baby "slab," none of which have any markings, in the "W. R. BROWN" lot (her Section I, Lot 93, which is located in the Old Cemetery section.
Reported age at time of death was 76 years, so evidently born about 1797.
Mary Jane Galer's list of persons buried in the Old Cemetery section of Linwood shows: Mrs. BROWN, Sr., died aged 76 years of "old age"; interred 17 MAR 1873 - Sexton James LYNAH.
This individual could POSSIBLY be the Jennie BROWN (aged 71 years) in the 1870 census household of William Riley BROWN:
1870 census of Columbus Muscogee County, Georgia, shows (all reported born in Georgia): William R. BROWN (aged 48 years), master machinist at foundry holding $14,000 in real estate and $1,000 in personal estate, with [children] William B. BROWN, Jr. (17), Carrie E[ugenia] BROWN (13), both going to school; [likely mother] Jennie BROWN (71), [evident sisters] Caroline [M. "Carrie"] (40) & [Mary] Elizabeth BROWN (33), both seamstresses; Virginia BELAND (28), also a seamstress; Black domestic servants Jane WILLIAMS (45), Columbus (13), Griffin (13), and Eveline (14).
This grave is evidently not identifiably marked. Dolores Autry's "Historic Linwood Cemetery" manuscript (unpublished version) reports 2 adult "slabs" [= adult-sized plain ledger grave markers] and 1 baby "slab," none of which have any markings, in the "W. R. BROWN" lot (her Section I, Lot 93, which is located in the Old Cemetery section.
Mary Jane Galer's list of persons buried in the Old Cemetery section of Linwood shows: Mrs. BROWN, Sr., died aged 76 years of "old age"; interred 17 MAR 1873 - Sexton James LYNAH.
This individual could POSSIBLY be the Jennie BROWN (aged 71 years) in the 1870 census household of William Riley BROWN:
1870 census of Columbus Muscogee County, Georgia, shows (all reported born in Georgia): William R. BROWN (aged 48 years), master machinist at foundry holding $14,000 in real estate and $1,000 in personal estate, with [children] William B. BROWN, Jr. (17), Carrie E[ugenia] BROWN (13), both going to school; [likely mother] Jennie BROWN (71), [evident sisters] Caroline [M. "Carrie"] (40) & [Mary] Elizabeth BROWN (33), both seamstresses; Virginia BELAND (28), also a seamstress; Black domestic servants Jane WILLIAMS (45), Columbus (13), Griffin (13), and Eveline (14).
This grave is evidently not identifiably marked. Dolores Autry's "Historic Linwood Cemetery" manuscript (unpublished version) reports 2 adult "slabs" [= adult-sized plain ledger grave markers] and 1 baby "slab," none of which have any markings, in the "W. R. BROWN" lot (her Section I, Lot 93, which is located in the Old Cemetery section.
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