Louisa's marriage certificate in Feb. 1860 has affidavit of her older brother stating that she was "upward of 22 years" The 1850 census has age as 13. This would make her birth year 1837.
The death date on stone is also incorrect. She died May 2 and was burried May 4, 1914 as recorded on death certificate and obituary in Fredericksburg Free Lance.
The correction note should be: Birth year, 1837 not 1841
Death date May 2 not April 14
Your transcription is correct. The inscription is incorrect. I feel that by adding a notation.
any family members who do not know the true facts might be helped."
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Louise Brannan D. Hume
Louisa's marriage certificate in Feb. 1860 has affidavit of her older brother stating that she was "upward of 22 years" The 1850 census has age as 13. This would make her birth year 1837.
The death date on stone is also incorrect. She died May 2 and was burried May 4, 1914 as recorded on death certificate and obituary in Fredericksburg Free Lance.
The correction note should be: Birth year, 1837 not 1841
Death date May 2 not April 14
Your transcription is correct. The inscription is incorrect. I feel that by adding a notation.
any family members who do not know the true facts might be helped."
TIA
Louise Brannan D. Hume
Inscription
"In Loving Memory
Wife of William Brannan.
Born in Stafford, VA.Oct. 18, 1841
Died in Broadway, VA. April 14 1914
Numbered with His Saints in Glory Everlasting
Erected by her daughter Chrstian B. Armstrong."
The dates on the stone are incorrect. She lied about her age and her 2 daughters had a disagreement on what to put on gravestone. As Christian was paying for it, she put what she wanted.
Louisa's marriage certificate in Feb. 1860 has affidavit of her older brother stating that she was "upward of 22 years" The 1850 census has age as 13. This would make her birth year 1836, although year of birth on death certificate is 1839.
The death date on stone is also incorrect. She died May 2 and was buried May 4, 1914 as recorded on death certificate and obituary in Fredericksburg Free Lance, and in a letter written May 2,1914 by her son-in-law to his daughter.
She was my great grandmother for whom I was named. Louise Brannan Davis Hume
