Mary Rachel Brown

Female28 August 1917–17 June 2007

Brief Life History of Mary Rachel

When Mary Rachel Brown was born on 28 August 1917, in Hepzibah, Harrison, Virginia, United States, her father, George William Brown, was 30 and her mother, Ada Lee Granlee, was 26. She lived in Union District, Ritchie, West Virginia, United States in 1920 and Parkersburg District, Wood, West Virginia, United States in 1940. She died on 17 June 2007, in Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 89.

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Family Time Line

Berkley Coull Lamp
1914–1994
Mary Rachel Brown
1917–2007

Sources (7)

  • Mary R Brown in household of George N Brown, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Mary Rachel Brown in entry for Timothy Ralph Hensley and Carole Berkley Lamp, "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988"
  • Mary R Brown in household of George W Brown, "United States Census, 1920"

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World Events (8)

1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

Age 1

To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

Age 2

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

1941

Age 24

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

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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