Mary Elizabeth Brown was the daughter of Jessie and Mary Powell Brown, she and David Moore were married 17 Nov 1853 in Gwinnett Co., GA and came with his father and family from Georgia to Alabama in wagons in 1858. Mary never saw her mother again. One brother, Parks Brown, visited while in the war, nephews and neices visited her in later years.

She was intelligent for one of her time. She had to quit school at age 12 to help her mother after her father died. She took a cold and could never cough up anything, old folks Pneumonia (Dr. said) and died a few days later.

She had cancer on her face and was 90 years old when she died.

David and Mary's children were; Eliza Jane, Thomas Jefferson, Susan, Mary Anna, James David, Nancy Catherine, Amanda Elizabeth, Martha Emily, Sarah Alma, Joseph Jackson, Mellie Frances and George Washington Moore.

Mrs Dealie Wycoff Moore (daughter-in-law, wife of George Washington Moore) described Mary as a graceful, tactful, sympathetic and religous, but could be blunt sometimes. She was reared a Methodist and wanted their first baby sprinkled, she laughed later and said "how foolish". She became a firm believer in the Old Baptist (primitive) doctrine, joined at Harmony, never missed a meeting if it could be helped.

**Notes from Mrs. Dealie Moore....
I don't know how the others felt, but Mary said she cried "enough to make a river" about leaving her mother and she never saw her again. She said she would have been glad to see a dog from Georgia. Her sister Emily Walker had a daughter that came a few times and two of her brother's sons visited her (Archie and Jody Brown). One of her brothers, Parks Brown came by during the war between the states. (Civil War).

Mary E. (Brown) Moore lost her father, Jesse Brown when she was twelve years old. She had to quit school to help her mother. Her father had stomach trouble for a long time. On his last Christmas he bought a big turkey for the family. He couldn't eat it but wanted them to enjoy it. Mary never saw her mother after they left Georgia and came to Alabama in 1858. Her mother was Nancy Powell, died in 1880. David went back to Georgia one time but she wouldn't leave her children to go. Her brothers were James, Eaton, Jesse Jackson, and Joseph Parks. Her sisters were Sarah Bates, Emily Walker and Mrs. Black. Emily's daughter, Emma visited her Aunt Mary several times.

Mary was industrous, tactful, graceful, religious and intelligent for her limited education. She read lots in her old days. She said she and the neighbor girls would meet at the yard fence and tell each other how many yards of cloth they had made or how much they had carded and spun. They carded, spun and wove all their everyday wear including blankets, bedspreads and sheets.