The Pleasanton Observer (Pleasanton, Linn County, Kansas)
October 1, 1901
Another Pioneer Gone
Elizabeth Brown was born at Cynthianna, Kentucky October 25th, 1815 and died at Pleasanton, Kansas, September 29th, 1901.
Since 1869 Elizabeth Brown has resided in Pleasanton and vicinity. Her early life was burdened with the hardships of the first settlers of a wild country. When she was two years of age, her parents, Isaac and Nancy Sellers, moved from their Kentucky home to Wright County, Indiana, and built a cabin in the dense forest, which swarmed with hostile Indians. Her father bravely began the arduous task of converting a portion of this wilderness into a fruitful farm. But, after a few years of unremitting toil he died, leaving a widow and a large family of children to continue the struggle in the wild woods. With feeble hand and but strong wills, the children directed by their heroic mother continued the work of building a home, acre after acre was added to the cleared land, which produced wheat and corn sufficient for bread. Sugar they made by boiling the sap from the maple tree. From wool clipped from their sheep, and from flax grown on the farm they manufactured their clothing and bedding. This required ceaseless labor; night after night the mournful hum of the spinning wheel and the clack of the shuttle, played an accompiment to the howls of the wolves in the surrounding forest. Thrift was the reward of this industry; for after a few years a neat brick house supplanted the log cabin, and the family, surrounded by homely comforts, were happy and content.
At the age of eighteen, Elizabeth was married to Granville Hastings of Richmond, Indiana and at the age of 23 was left a widow with one son Richard, who grew up to manhood and died at Anderson, Indiana.
Eight years later she married James Brown of Hagerstown, Indiana. To this marriage were born two children, Mrs. Ellen Barrick and Miss. Emma P. Brown. Since the death of her husband in 1894 she and her daughter Emma have lived alone in Pleasanton. Elizabeth Brown was a splendid type of the pioneer mother that will soon have passed this world. Her ambition was not personal; she took no thought of her own wants and needs; her only wish was to make her loved ones comfortable and happy.
Before she was disabled by infirmities of age, she was noted for her excellency in cooking and her neatness in house keeping. She cared for the sick and the afflicted throughout her neighborhood; was kind, generous and charitable. Her span of life almost covered the nineteen century. She saw our country grow from a weak impoverished nation to a strong and wealthy one. We regard out statemen and generals who have led us to greatness as heros, but we also owe a national debt of gratitude to our self denying patriotic mothers; and its cheering to believe that in the great beyond, where justice is meted by an impartial hand, that the Elizabeth Browns; will receive rich rewards for the good deed done on this earth.
Contributor Charlott Jones
October 1, 1901
Another Pioneer Gone
Elizabeth Brown was born at Cynthianna, Kentucky October 25th, 1815 and died at Pleasanton, Kansas, September 29th, 1901.
Since 1869 Elizabeth Brown has resided in Pleasanton and vicinity. Her early life was burdened with the hardships of the first settlers of a wild country. When she was two years of age, her parents, Isaac and Nancy Sellers, moved from their Kentucky home to Wright County, Indiana, and built a cabin in the dense forest, which swarmed with hostile Indians. Her father bravely began the arduous task of converting a portion of this wilderness into a fruitful farm. But, after a few years of unremitting toil he died, leaving a widow and a large family of children to continue the struggle in the wild woods. With feeble hand and but strong wills, the children directed by their heroic mother continued the work of building a home, acre after acre was added to the cleared land, which produced wheat and corn sufficient for bread. Sugar they made by boiling the sap from the maple tree. From wool clipped from their sheep, and from flax grown on the farm they manufactured their clothing and bedding. This required ceaseless labor; night after night the mournful hum of the spinning wheel and the clack of the shuttle, played an accompiment to the howls of the wolves in the surrounding forest. Thrift was the reward of this industry; for after a few years a neat brick house supplanted the log cabin, and the family, surrounded by homely comforts, were happy and content.
At the age of eighteen, Elizabeth was married to Granville Hastings of Richmond, Indiana and at the age of 23 was left a widow with one son Richard, who grew up to manhood and died at Anderson, Indiana.
Eight years later she married James Brown of Hagerstown, Indiana. To this marriage were born two children, Mrs. Ellen Barrick and Miss. Emma P. Brown. Since the death of her husband in 1894 she and her daughter Emma have lived alone in Pleasanton. Elizabeth Brown was a splendid type of the pioneer mother that will soon have passed this world. Her ambition was not personal; she took no thought of her own wants and needs; her only wish was to make her loved ones comfortable and happy.
Before she was disabled by infirmities of age, she was noted for her excellency in cooking and her neatness in house keeping. She cared for the sick and the afflicted throughout her neighborhood; was kind, generous and charitable. Her span of life almost covered the nineteen century. She saw our country grow from a weak impoverished nation to a strong and wealthy one. We regard out statemen and generals who have led us to greatness as heros, but we also owe a national debt of gratitude to our self denying patriotic mothers; and its cheering to believe that in the great beyond, where justice is meted by an impartial hand, that the Elizabeth Browns; will receive rich rewards for the good deed done on this earth.
Contributor Charlott Jones
The Pleasanton Observer (Pleasanton, Linn County, Kansas)
October 1, 1901
Another Pioneer Gone
Elizabeth Brown was born at Cynthianna, Kentucky October 25th, 1815 and died at Pleasanton, Kansas, September 29th, 1901.
Since 1869 Elizabeth Brown has resided in Pleasanton and vicinity. Her early life was burdened with the hardships of the first settlers of a wild country. When she was two years of age, her parents, Isaac and Nancy Sellers, moved from their Kentucky home to Wright County, Indiana, and built a cabin in the dense forest, which swarmed with hostile Indians. Her father bravely began the arduous task of converting a portion of this wilderness into a fruitful farm. But, after a few years of unremitting toil he died, leaving a widow and a large family of children to continue the struggle in the wild woods. With feeble hand and but strong wills, the children directed by their heroic mother continued the work of building a home, acre after acre was added to the cleared land, which produced wheat and corn sufficient for bread. Sugar they made by boiling the sap from the maple tree. From wool clipped from their sheep, and from flax grown on the farm they manufactured their clothing and bedding. This required ceaseless labor; night after night the mournful hum of the spinning wheel and the clack of the shuttle, played an accompiment to the howls of the wolves in the surrounding forest. Thrift was the reward of this industry; for after a few years a neat brick house supplanted the log cabin, and the family, surrounded by homely comforts, were happy and content.
At the age of eighteen, Elizabeth was married to Granville Hastings of Richmond, Indiana and at the age of 23 was left a widow with one son Richard, who grew up to manhood and died at Anderson, Indiana.
Eight years later she married James Brown of Hagerstown, Indiana. To this marriage were born two children, Mrs. Ellen Barrick and Miss. Emma P. Brown. Since the death of her husband in 1894 she and her daughter Emma have lived alone in Pleasanton. Elizabeth Brown was a splendid type of the pioneer mother that will soon have passed this world. Her ambition was not personal; she took no thought of her own wants and needs; her only wish was to make her loved ones comfortable and happy.
Before she was disabled by infirmities of age, she was noted for her excellency in cooking and her neatness in house keeping. She cared for the sick and the afflicted throughout her neighborhood; was kind, generous and charitable. Her span of life almost covered the nineteen century. She saw our country grow from a weak impoverished nation to a strong and wealthy one. We regard out statemen and generals who have led us to greatness as heros, but we also owe a national debt of gratitude to our self denying patriotic mothers; and its cheering to believe that in the great beyond, where justice is meted by an impartial hand, that the Elizabeth Browns; will receive rich rewards for the good deed done on this earth.
Contributor Charlott Jones
October 1, 1901
Another Pioneer Gone
Elizabeth Brown was born at Cynthianna, Kentucky October 25th, 1815 and died at Pleasanton, Kansas, September 29th, 1901.
Since 1869 Elizabeth Brown has resided in Pleasanton and vicinity. Her early life was burdened with the hardships of the first settlers of a wild country. When she was two years of age, her parents, Isaac and Nancy Sellers, moved from their Kentucky home to Wright County, Indiana, and built a cabin in the dense forest, which swarmed with hostile Indians. Her father bravely began the arduous task of converting a portion of this wilderness into a fruitful farm. But, after a few years of unremitting toil he died, leaving a widow and a large family of children to continue the struggle in the wild woods. With feeble hand and but strong wills, the children directed by their heroic mother continued the work of building a home, acre after acre was added to the cleared land, which produced wheat and corn sufficient for bread. Sugar they made by boiling the sap from the maple tree. From wool clipped from their sheep, and from flax grown on the farm they manufactured their clothing and bedding. This required ceaseless labor; night after night the mournful hum of the spinning wheel and the clack of the shuttle, played an accompiment to the howls of the wolves in the surrounding forest. Thrift was the reward of this industry; for after a few years a neat brick house supplanted the log cabin, and the family, surrounded by homely comforts, were happy and content.
At the age of eighteen, Elizabeth was married to Granville Hastings of Richmond, Indiana and at the age of 23 was left a widow with one son Richard, who grew up to manhood and died at Anderson, Indiana.
Eight years later she married James Brown of Hagerstown, Indiana. To this marriage were born two children, Mrs. Ellen Barrick and Miss. Emma P. Brown. Since the death of her husband in 1894 she and her daughter Emma have lived alone in Pleasanton. Elizabeth Brown was a splendid type of the pioneer mother that will soon have passed this world. Her ambition was not personal; she took no thought of her own wants and needs; her only wish was to make her loved ones comfortable and happy.
Before she was disabled by infirmities of age, she was noted for her excellency in cooking and her neatness in house keeping. She cared for the sick and the afflicted throughout her neighborhood; was kind, generous and charitable. Her span of life almost covered the nineteen century. She saw our country grow from a weak impoverished nation to a strong and wealthy one. We regard out statemen and generals who have led us to greatness as heros, but we also owe a national debt of gratitude to our self denying patriotic mothers; and its cheering to believe that in the great beyond, where justice is meted by an impartial hand, that the Elizabeth Browns; will receive rich rewards for the good deed done on this earth.
Contributor Charlott Jones
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