Mary Ann Brown

Brief Life History of Mary Ann

When Mary Ann Brown was born on 2 October 1842, in Greenville Township, Floyd, Indiana, United States, her father, James Polly Brown, was 39 and her mother, Eunice Reasor, was 34. She married Warren Stone Snow on 20 April 1857, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1842 and Anderson Township, Rush, Indiana, United States in 1860. She died on 15 February 1901, in Glenwood, Sevier, Utah, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Glenwood, Sevier, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Archibald Waller Overton Buchanan
1830–1915
Mary Ann Brown
1842–1901
Marriage: 1 January 1860
Eunice Rozina Snow Buchanan
1858–1923
James Alonzo Buchanan
1860–1896
Mary Jane Buchanan
1862–1894
William Wallace Buchanan
1865–1938
Eugene Deloss Buchanan
1867–1937
Henry Pomroy Buchanan
1871–1941
Amy Lorette Buchanan
1873–1946
Charles Vertner Buchanan
1877–1903

Sources (32)

  • Mary A Buchanan in household of Archd Buchanan, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Mary Ann Brown - birth-name: Mary Ann Brown
  • Ancestry: Mary Ann Brown, "Members of the Mormon Battalion"

World Events (8)

1845 · Oh My Father

"In October 1845, the newspaper Times and Seasons published a poem written by Eliza R. Snow entitled ""My Father in Heaven."" It has become the well known hymn, ""Oh My Father."" The song is only one in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymnbook that referrs to a Heavenly Mother."

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

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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