Brief Life History of Mary B
When Mary B Cloud was born on 12 January 1877, in Pope, Arkansas, United States, her father, George Washington Osborne Cloud, was 43 and her mother, Sarah Ann Frances McAllister, was 22. She married William Alvin Brown on 5 January 1902, in Pope, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Dover, Pope, Arkansas, United States for about 3 years and Russellville, Pope, Arkansas, United States in 1968. She died on 26 May 1982, in Pope, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 105, and was buried in Pollard Cemetery, Dover, Pope, Arkansas, United States.
Photos and Memories (3)
Do you know Mary B? Do you have a story about her that you would like to share? Sign In or Create a FREE Account
Family Time Line
Sources (7)
- Mollie Brown in household of Will A Brown, "United States Census, 1910"
- Mary B. "Mollie" Cloud Brown, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mrs Molly Brown, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
Spouse and Children
Parents and Siblings
World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived near an outcrop or hill, from Old English clūd ‘rock’ (only later used to denote vapor formations in the sky), or a habitational name from any of numerous places so named, such as Temple Cloud (Somerset), Cloud Bridge (Warwickshire), and Clouds Wood (Hertfordshire).
Native American: translation into English (and shortening) of a personal name based on a word, such as Lakota and Dakota Sioux mahpiya, meaning ‘cloud’. Among the Sioux, several of their traditional personal names with this element were adopted as surnames (translated into English), e.g. Iron Cloud (see Ironcloud ) and Red Cloud (see Redcloud ).
French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Hlodald, composed of the elements hlōd ‘famous, clear’ + wald ‘rule’, which was borne by a Christian saint and bishop of the 6th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related Names
Discover Even More
As a nonprofit, we offer free help to those looking to learn the details of their family story.