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Alexander Dwight Brown Sr.

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Alexander Dwight Brown Sr.

Birth
Connecticut, USA
Death
Oct 1873 (aged 72)
Burial
Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section C, evidently Lot 144 (Sexton's system) presumed Section J, Lot 60 (Autry book)
Memorial ID
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Reported age at time of death was 73 years, so evidently born about 1800. Married Emily CRAWFORD (not certain CRAWFORD is her maiden name, rather than a 2nd given name & maiden name unknown). The Northern Liberties, where this man resided and died, were lands on the periphery of the original town of Columbus, set aside for public use initially, and some later developed privately. The Southern Liberties includes the area where the Civic Center is now. Eastern Liberties likely was developed as the railyard between 6th & 10th avenues. I believe the Northern Liberties included what is now Linwood Cemetery.

The 1870 census of "outside the city of Columbus," Muscogee County, Georgia, shows: A. D.BROWN (aged 69 years, born in Connecticut), a machinist on cotton gins, holding real estate valued at $1,200 and personal estate valued at $800, with Emily (60 SC), real estate $200, personal estate $100; and Frank BROWN (21 GA), a machinist in a railroad shop; also present are Joseph HARLAN (42 GA), a carpenter, with Eliza HARLAN (42 GA) a schoolteacher holding real estate valued at $900 and personal estate valued at $200, and Florence HARLAN (14 GA), going to school.

Mary Jane Galer's list of persons interred in the New Cemetery area of Linwood shows: A. D. BROWN died aged 73 year of apoplexy; buried 07 OCT 1873 in Section C, lot number not reported.

Dolores Autry's "Historic Linwood Cemetery" book (edited by Dowd & others), Volume 3, p. 137, shows of this man's wife: Emily Crawford, born 08 OCT 1808 in SC was the wife of Alexander Dwight Brown of CT. She was the mother of (among others) Eliza Brown (1828-1909) who married 21 MAR 1855 in Catoosa Co., GA, to Joseph Harlan (1827-1894), who were the parents of Mildred Harlan who married George Chalmers. Emily's obit shows she was survived by several sons & daughters (not named).

This grave is evidently not identifiably marked. It is perhaps in Dolores Autry's Section J, Lot 60, which corresponds to the Sexton's Section C, Lot 143. Among those reported in that lot are: Mrs. E. C. BROWN (buried 18 MAR 1877, aged 69 years); Joseph W. HARLAN (buried 08 DEC 1893, age not reported); and Mrs. Eliza J. HARLAN (buried 12 DEC 1908, aged 81 years).

Note also, in Section C, Lot 144: Eleanor? Helen (FLOURNOY) BROWN (buried 04 JAN 1904, aged 62 years); and Harold F. BROWN (buried 04 DEC 1936, aged 60 years).

Brother: Israel F. BROWN
Reported age at time of death was 73 years, so evidently born about 1800. Married Emily CRAWFORD (not certain CRAWFORD is her maiden name, rather than a 2nd given name & maiden name unknown). The Northern Liberties, where this man resided and died, were lands on the periphery of the original town of Columbus, set aside for public use initially, and some later developed privately. The Southern Liberties includes the area where the Civic Center is now. Eastern Liberties likely was developed as the railyard between 6th & 10th avenues. I believe the Northern Liberties included what is now Linwood Cemetery.

The 1870 census of "outside the city of Columbus," Muscogee County, Georgia, shows: A. D.BROWN (aged 69 years, born in Connecticut), a machinist on cotton gins, holding real estate valued at $1,200 and personal estate valued at $800, with Emily (60 SC), real estate $200, personal estate $100; and Frank BROWN (21 GA), a machinist in a railroad shop; also present are Joseph HARLAN (42 GA), a carpenter, with Eliza HARLAN (42 GA) a schoolteacher holding real estate valued at $900 and personal estate valued at $200, and Florence HARLAN (14 GA), going to school.

Mary Jane Galer's list of persons interred in the New Cemetery area of Linwood shows: A. D. BROWN died aged 73 year of apoplexy; buried 07 OCT 1873 in Section C, lot number not reported.

Dolores Autry's "Historic Linwood Cemetery" book (edited by Dowd & others), Volume 3, p. 137, shows of this man's wife: Emily Crawford, born 08 OCT 1808 in SC was the wife of Alexander Dwight Brown of CT. She was the mother of (among others) Eliza Brown (1828-1909) who married 21 MAR 1855 in Catoosa Co., GA, to Joseph Harlan (1827-1894), who were the parents of Mildred Harlan who married George Chalmers. Emily's obit shows she was survived by several sons & daughters (not named).

This grave is evidently not identifiably marked. It is perhaps in Dolores Autry's Section J, Lot 60, which corresponds to the Sexton's Section C, Lot 143. Among those reported in that lot are: Mrs. E. C. BROWN (buried 18 MAR 1877, aged 69 years); Joseph W. HARLAN (buried 08 DEC 1893, age not reported); and Mrs. Eliza J. HARLAN (buried 12 DEC 1908, aged 81 years).

Note also, in Section C, Lot 144: Eleanor? Helen (FLOURNOY) BROWN (buried 04 JAN 1904, aged 62 years); and Harold F. BROWN (buried 04 DEC 1936, aged 60 years).

Brother: Israel F. BROWN


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