When Henrietta Nearing was born on 2 February 1827, in Sullivan, New York, United States, her father, Ira Joseph Nearing, was 33 and her mother, Jane M Daugherty, was 21. She married Oliver Brush Brown after 1865. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Cochecton, Sullivan, New York, United States for about 25 years. She died on 7 December 1916, in Sullivan, New York, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Lake Huntington, Sullivan, New York, United States.
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Americanized form of German Niering, a habitational name from a place so named in Westphalia, and possibly also of Nehring .
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