Rebecca Brown

Brief Life History of Rebecca

When Rebecca Brown was born on 13 August 1819, in Washington, Tennessee, United States, her father, Jesse Brown, was 34 and her mother, Elizabeth Nancy Wakefield, was 24. She married Edward Martin Crow on 27 October 1838, in Washington, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Carter, Carter, Tennessee, United States in 1850 and Civil District 4, Unicoi, Tennessee, United States in 1880. She died on 13 September 1883, in Carter, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Fishery Union Church Cemetery, Erwin, Unicoi, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Edward Martin Crow
1813–1902
Rebecca Brown
1819–1883
Marriage: 27 October 1838
Delcena Elizabeth Crow
1839–1872
Elizabeth Emma J Crow
1862–
Phoebe Elizabeth Crow
1841–1906
Christian C Crow
1843–
Jessee Crow
1845–
John Alexander Crowe
1848–1939
Soloman Hart Crow
1851–1924
William Bayless Crowe
1851–1944
William Bail Crowe
1854–
Isaac C Crow
1856–
Landon T Crow
1858–

Sources (13)

  • Rebecca Crow in household of Edward M Crow, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Rebecca Brown Crow, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Rebecca Brown in entry for William B Crowe, "North Carolina, Department of Archives and History, Index to Vital Records, 1800-2000"

World Events (8)

1820 · Making States Equal

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

1830

Oldest grave seen in the memorials list.

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

Name Meaning

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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