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Susan Frances “Susie” <I>Brown</I> Brady

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Susan Frances “Susie” Brown Brady

Birth
Hamilton, Madison County, New York, USA
Death
4 Feb 1928 (aged 72)
Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
Burial
Titusville, Brevard County, Florida, USA Add to Map
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Susie Brown was born January 16, 1856, the daughter of Phillip and Sarah Brown, at Colgate University, N.Y., where her father was a professor. Later the family went to St. Louis, and after the death of Professor Brown, Mrs. Brown and her daughter came to Florida in 1881.
In 1882 she had her first school at Merritt's Island on Indian river, where she and her mother had settled. There were seven pupils in the tiny school, where the desks were made of orange boxes and lizards and snakes greeted the teacher on her first day.
In 1886 she came to Palm Peach and had the distinction of being the second teacher here. Miss Hattie Gale having been the first. The school was located on the east side of Lake Worth and many of the pupils were rowed across the lake each day. After three years here, she taught for many years in the schools in Brevard county.
In 1898 she was married to Adhemar Brady of Titusville where she had been teaching, and they lived there until 1922 when Mr. Brady died. Since that time she had made her home with Mrs. Dyer in West Palm Beach.
Mrs. Brady was an active member in a number of organizations, especially interesting herself in religious and patriotic activities. She was an associate member of the Thomas Benton chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy , a member of the Seminole chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and served as state historian for two years. She was a member of Holy Trinity Episcopal church, and was active in the Rector's Aid and Woman's Auxiliary. In Titusville she still retained her membership in the Order of the Eastern Star. At the time of her death she was state chairman of literature and historical reciprocity committee of the D.A.R.

Listed in " The National Society of the Daughters of American Revolution" page 19, Vol. 110


----- Original Message -----
From: Sheila Shaughnessy
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 2:13 PM
Subject: Organizing Regent's Gravesite Dedication date changed

The gravesite dedication of Philip Perry Organizing Regent is changed to:

February 4th, at 2 p.m - at Oaklawn Memorial Cemetary, 2116 Garden St, in Titusville.

Take US1 to garden Street in Titusville, turn left, proceed for 1 mile, turn right into cemetary.

No grave site was ever located for Susie Brown Brady, who died in 1928.


For those of you who would like to know...here is the rest of the story...

Susie Brown Brady Research Notes:

She resided in Titusville until the death of her husband in 1922, when she moved to West Palm Beach, FL. Marked gravesites for her husband and mother are located in the Oaklawn Memorial Gardens & Mausoleums, 2116 Garden Street, Titusville, FL.

Susie was listed as living at 821 South Poinsettia Avenue, (now Dixie,) in the 1926 City Directory of West Palm Beach City, Florida. No record has been located of her joining any other DAR chapter. Her original Application remains with the Philip Perry Chapter Registrar.

According to probate documents, Susie Brown Brady died on 4 February 1928. Stipulated in her will were arrangements for transport to Titusville to be interred in what is now known as Oaklawn Memorial Gardens in Titusville. Two Titusville newspaper obituarys were printed, describing her casket arrival by train, accompanied by her grandniece. They printed the names of 24 pallbearers. Koons Funeral Home located in Titusville issued a Record of Funeral, dated February 6, just 2 days after her date of death.

But no gravesite marker has been found to identify the final resting place for Susie Brown Brady nor does the current management of Oaklawn Memorial Gardens & Mausoleums, 2116 Garden Street, Titusville, FL, have any record of her burial there.

However, a probe of the ground perpendicular to her husband's gravesite discovered a large metal rectangle, thought to be the vault that was specified by law to transport human remains on trains.

The Chapter Board voted to mark her grave and the Oaklawn Memorial Gardens Director agreed to allow a marker placed for Susie between her husband's and mother's gravesites. Fund raising was initiated in 2003 and the stone was purchased in January 2004.
____________________________________________________________________________________
2-11-04
Several ladies from the Philip Perry and the Indian River Chapters, NSDAR gathered this afternoon at Oaklawn Memorial Gardens for a brief memorial service and dedication of a headstone which reads:
Susie Brown Brady
Jan 16, 1856 Feb 4 1928
Organizing Regent
Philip Perry Chapter NSDAR
It is places between the headstones of Adhemar and her mother. The cemetery has yet to find a record of her being buried there, but since we had obituaries indicating that she was, they allowed the placement of the stone.
I am assuming Susie's date of birth on her headstone came from her NSDAR application or her death certificate.
The service was led by a lady Methodist minister. It was very nicely done!
More later,
Nancy C. Sieck


The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 110
page 19
Mrs. Susie Brown Brady.
DAR ID Number: 109062
Born in Hamilton, N. Y.
Wife of Adhemar Brady.
Descendant of Perley Brown, as follows:
1. Phillip Perry Brown, Jr. (1823-81) m. 1845 Sarah Jackson (1824-1906).
2. Phillip Perry Brown (1790-1876) m. 1809 Betsy Dickey (1788-1862).
3. Nathaniel Brown (1767-1854) m. Anna Perry (1770-1826).
4. Perley Brown m. 1761 Elizabeth Wilson.
Perley Brown (1737-76) served as a private in Capt. Seth Washburn's company, Colonel Ward's regiment, 1775. He was killed at the battle of White Plains.

Organizing Chapter Regent Susie Brown Brady
The following record is taken from the History of Florida DAR, 1892-1933:

Philip Perry Chapter Organizing Regent, Susie Brown Brady, was born Susie Brown, on January 16, 1856 in Hamilton, NY. Her father was Philip Perry Brown, Brevet Brigadier General of the 157th New York Volunteers. Her mother, Sarah Jackson, was born in England.

Susie Brown Brady was educated in Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Alton, IL. In 1881, she relocated to Florida with her widowed mother and purchased an orange grove on the Indian River at City Point. Seventeen years were spent teaching in Florida's Brevard and Dade counties, serving many times on the Examining Board of the County of Brevard. On May 28, 1898, Susie married Adhemar Brady of the Confederate Veterans of Alabama. He held commissions of Captain of Home Guards, Captain of Cadets, and Captain of Brevard County, Confederate Veterans.

After her marriage, she organized the Philip Perry Chapter NSDAR in 1915, and resided in Titusville until the death of her husband in 1922, when she moved to West Palm Beach, FL. She died on 4 February 1928. A Titusville newspaper obituary detailed her casket arrival by train, accompanied by her grandniece. Twenty-four pallbearers were there to meet the train.

Philip Perry Chapter members marked her gravesite on 4 February 2004 at Oaklawn Memorial Gardens & Mausoleums, in Titusville, FL.




Susie Brown was born January 16, 1856, the daughter of Phillip and Sarah Brown, at Colgate University, N.Y., where her father was a professor. Later the family went to St. Louis, and after the death of Professor Brown, Mrs. Brown and her daughter came to Florida in 1881.
In 1882 she had her first school at Merritt's Island on Indian river, where she and her mother had settled. There were seven pupils in the tiny school, where the desks were made of orange boxes and lizards and snakes greeted the teacher on her first day.
In 1886 she came to Palm Peach and had the distinction of being the second teacher here. Miss Hattie Gale having been the first. The school was located on the east side of Lake Worth and many of the pupils were rowed across the lake each day. After three years here, she taught for many years in the schools in Brevard county.
In 1898 she was married to Adhemar Brady of Titusville where she had been teaching, and they lived there until 1922 when Mr. Brady died. Since that time she had made her home with Mrs. Dyer in West Palm Beach.
Mrs. Brady was an active member in a number of organizations, especially interesting herself in religious and patriotic activities. She was an associate member of the Thomas Benton chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy , a member of the Seminole chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and served as state historian for two years. She was a member of Holy Trinity Episcopal church, and was active in the Rector's Aid and Woman's Auxiliary. In Titusville she still retained her membership in the Order of the Eastern Star. At the time of her death she was state chairman of literature and historical reciprocity committee of the D.A.R.

Listed in " The National Society of the Daughters of American Revolution" page 19, Vol. 110


----- Original Message -----
From: Sheila Shaughnessy
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 2:13 PM
Subject: Organizing Regent's Gravesite Dedication date changed

The gravesite dedication of Philip Perry Organizing Regent is changed to:

February 4th, at 2 p.m - at Oaklawn Memorial Cemetary, 2116 Garden St, in Titusville.

Take US1 to garden Street in Titusville, turn left, proceed for 1 mile, turn right into cemetary.

No grave site was ever located for Susie Brown Brady, who died in 1928.


For those of you who would like to know...here is the rest of the story...

Susie Brown Brady Research Notes:

She resided in Titusville until the death of her husband in 1922, when she moved to West Palm Beach, FL. Marked gravesites for her husband and mother are located in the Oaklawn Memorial Gardens & Mausoleums, 2116 Garden Street, Titusville, FL.

Susie was listed as living at 821 South Poinsettia Avenue, (now Dixie,) in the 1926 City Directory of West Palm Beach City, Florida. No record has been located of her joining any other DAR chapter. Her original Application remains with the Philip Perry Chapter Registrar.

According to probate documents, Susie Brown Brady died on 4 February 1928. Stipulated in her will were arrangements for transport to Titusville to be interred in what is now known as Oaklawn Memorial Gardens in Titusville. Two Titusville newspaper obituarys were printed, describing her casket arrival by train, accompanied by her grandniece. They printed the names of 24 pallbearers. Koons Funeral Home located in Titusville issued a Record of Funeral, dated February 6, just 2 days after her date of death.

But no gravesite marker has been found to identify the final resting place for Susie Brown Brady nor does the current management of Oaklawn Memorial Gardens & Mausoleums, 2116 Garden Street, Titusville, FL, have any record of her burial there.

However, a probe of the ground perpendicular to her husband's gravesite discovered a large metal rectangle, thought to be the vault that was specified by law to transport human remains on trains.

The Chapter Board voted to mark her grave and the Oaklawn Memorial Gardens Director agreed to allow a marker placed for Susie between her husband's and mother's gravesites. Fund raising was initiated in 2003 and the stone was purchased in January 2004.
____________________________________________________________________________________
2-11-04
Several ladies from the Philip Perry and the Indian River Chapters, NSDAR gathered this afternoon at Oaklawn Memorial Gardens for a brief memorial service and dedication of a headstone which reads:
Susie Brown Brady
Jan 16, 1856 Feb 4 1928
Organizing Regent
Philip Perry Chapter NSDAR
It is places between the headstones of Adhemar and her mother. The cemetery has yet to find a record of her being buried there, but since we had obituaries indicating that she was, they allowed the placement of the stone.
I am assuming Susie's date of birth on her headstone came from her NSDAR application or her death certificate.
The service was led by a lady Methodist minister. It was very nicely done!
More later,
Nancy C. Sieck


The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 110
page 19
Mrs. Susie Brown Brady.
DAR ID Number: 109062
Born in Hamilton, N. Y.
Wife of Adhemar Brady.
Descendant of Perley Brown, as follows:
1. Phillip Perry Brown, Jr. (1823-81) m. 1845 Sarah Jackson (1824-1906).
2. Phillip Perry Brown (1790-1876) m. 1809 Betsy Dickey (1788-1862).
3. Nathaniel Brown (1767-1854) m. Anna Perry (1770-1826).
4. Perley Brown m. 1761 Elizabeth Wilson.
Perley Brown (1737-76) served as a private in Capt. Seth Washburn's company, Colonel Ward's regiment, 1775. He was killed at the battle of White Plains.

Organizing Chapter Regent Susie Brown Brady
The following record is taken from the History of Florida DAR, 1892-1933:

Philip Perry Chapter Organizing Regent, Susie Brown Brady, was born Susie Brown, on January 16, 1856 in Hamilton, NY. Her father was Philip Perry Brown, Brevet Brigadier General of the 157th New York Volunteers. Her mother, Sarah Jackson, was born in England.

Susie Brown Brady was educated in Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Alton, IL. In 1881, she relocated to Florida with her widowed mother and purchased an orange grove on the Indian River at City Point. Seventeen years were spent teaching in Florida's Brevard and Dade counties, serving many times on the Examining Board of the County of Brevard. On May 28, 1898, Susie married Adhemar Brady of the Confederate Veterans of Alabama. He held commissions of Captain of Home Guards, Captain of Cadets, and Captain of Brevard County, Confederate Veterans.

After her marriage, she organized the Philip Perry Chapter NSDAR in 1915, and resided in Titusville until the death of her husband in 1922, when she moved to West Palm Beach, FL. She died on 4 February 1928. A Titusville newspaper obituary detailed her casket arrival by train, accompanied by her grandniece. Twenty-four pallbearers were there to meet the train.

Philip Perry Chapter members marked her gravesite on 4 February 2004 at Oaklawn Memorial Gardens & Mausoleums, in Titusville, FL.






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