Married Larkin Jones Church, Sr. on 03 May 1857 in Jackson County, Alabama

Married John D. Brown on 11 February 1866 in Pope County, Arkansas


Children with Larkin Jones Church, Sr.:

John Alton Church (1858-1909)
William Church (born May 1860, died between 1860-1866)
Francis Marion Church (1862-1938)


Children with John D. Brown:

Rebecca "Becky" Arimenta Tennessee Brown Yates (1867-1953)
Nancy Ellen Brown Hegeman (1870-1889)
Louise "Louisy" Catherine Brown Tredwell (1876-1938)
Eli Mark Brown (1879-1919)

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From the
Comanche Reflex - Comanche, Oklahoma
Friday, December 13, 1918:

Mrs. Mary E. Brown at Rest

It is not hard to go to rest when a life has been usefully spent in Christian endeavor, and, when the summons came to Mrs. Mary E. Brown, mother of Mrs. J.P. Yates, Jr., of this city, after seventy-eight beautiful years of ministry devoted to humanfolk journeying toward the golden-crowned sunset of earthly existence, it found her ready and willing to exchange the form of clay for the Life Eternal--for that sweetly soothing rest in the shade of the tree on the banks of the Beautiful River. The afflictions of this good woman had been many and trying, blindness having been her portion for more than thirty-one years. Complaint, however, was foreign to her patient soul--the darkened world was made to beam bright and happy through her supreme love for and faith in her Savior and Redeemer.

Her death occurred at Healdton Saturday. The remains were brought here Sunday morning and interment was had in the Comanche cemetery the same afternoon. Elder Morgan of the Church of Christ, spoke worlds of religious consolation to the bereaved relatives and gathered friends, many of whom followed the cortege to the quiet city of the dead where, amid the hush of sorrow, the loved one was consigned to the tomb, there to remain in the tongueless silence of dreamless sleep until the resurrection morning when she will be caught up to the heavens in glory. The mourning relatives will have the sincere sympathy of many friends in their deep sorrow.