When Missouri J. Brown was born on 26 January 1839, in Indiana, United States, her father, Hezekiah Harman Brown, was 27 and her mother, Elizabeth Betsey Davis, was 25. She married Levi Lee Forth in 1859. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Wayne, DuPage, Illinois, United States for about 10 years and Township of Hickory Hill, Wayne, Illinois, United States for about 30 years. She died on 3 March 1909, at the age of 70, and was buried in Wolfe Cemetery, Johnsonville, Wayne, Illinois, United States.
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English, Scottish, and Irish: generally a nickname referring to the color of the hair or complexion, Middle English br(o)un, from Old English brūn or Old French brun. This word is occasionally found in Old French, Middle English and Old Norse as a personal name or byname (Middle English personal name Brun, Broun, ancient Germanic Bruno, Old English Brūn, or possibly Old Norse Brúnn or Brúni). Brun- was also an ancient Germanic name-forming element. Some instances of Old English Brūn as a personal name may therefore be short forms of compound names such as Brūngar, Brūnwine, etc. As a Scottish and Irish name, it sometimes represents a translation of Gaelic Donn (see below). Brown (including in the senses below) is the fourth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below).
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Ó Duinn (see Dunn ) or for any of the many Irish and Scottish Gaelic names containing the element donn ‘brown-haired’ (also meaning ‘chieftain’), for example Donahue .
Irish: phonetic Anglicization of Mac an Bhreitheamhnaigh; see Breheny .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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