Elizabeth (Gover) Brown (1795 - 1877)

Born 1795 in Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Lowden Brown — married 30 Mar 1812 in Pittsylvania, Virginia

Descendants

Died 1877 at about age 82 in Caldwell, Missouri, United States

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Biography

According to the biography of Lowden Brown, Elizabeth's husband, (History of Caldwell County, Missouri (p. 268-269), Elizabeth Gover was born in 1795. She was the daughter of John Gover and Mary (Dyer) Gover.

Elizabeth (often spelled "Elisabeth") grew up in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, with at least two siblings, brothers John Gover III and Samuel Daniel Gover.

She married Lowden Brown (who sometimes appears on the census records as "London Brown") about 1812, at the beginning of America's second war with England. They had 11 children, with their first child, Nancy being born 1813 and their last child, Jane, born 23 years later in 1836.

The family moved to Pulaski County, Kentucky, before 1820 and moved to Caldwell County, Missouri in the autumn of 1838.

Elizabeth Brown lived long enough to see the Civil War.

She died in 1877 and is buried at the Brown Cemetery in Kingston, Caldwell County, Missouri.

Her tombstone lists her death in 1877, at the age of 84 years, 11 months, and 4 days, suggesting a birth year of 1793. While possible, it is more likely the math was wrong, and she was born in 1795 and died in 1877, at the age 82 years, 11 months and 4 days. This would also fit with the birth dates of her older and younger siblings.

Sources

• Elizabeth Brown (1795 - ?) Fact Page, McCarty Family Tree, Ancestry.com

• Descendants of John Gover and Elizabeth Duvall, Gover Family of Pittsylania Couty, Virginia, Ancestry.com Italy message board

• Pittsylvania County, Virginia - Wikipedia

• Virginia, United States Genealogy - FamilySearch.org [See the clickable county map of Virginia, where you can find Pittsylvania on the southern border of the state, in the middle]

• Pittsylvania County, Virginia Genealogy - FamilySearch.org

13 March 1812 Marriage to Louden Brown

London Brown in the Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1740-1850

• Name: London Brown [Louden Brown]
• Gender: Male
• Spouse Name: Elizabeth Gover
• Spouse Gender: Female
• Marriage Date: 30 Mar 1812
• County: Pittsylvania
• State: Virginia

Source Information Ancestry.com. Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1740-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.

Original data: Dodd, Jordan R., et al.. Early American Marriages: Virginia to 1850. Bountiful, UT, USA: Precision Indexing Publishers.

Description This collection of marriage records includes the names of over 300,000 men and women married in Virginia between 1740 and 1850.

On 30 Mar 1812, Elizabeth Gover and Louden Brown married in Pittsylvania, Virginia^[1].^[2]

North American Families

Elizabeth Gover in the North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000

• Name: Elizabeth Gover
• Gender: Female
• First Marriage Date: 30 Mar 1812
• Spouse: Lowden Brown

Source Citation Book Title: Mead Relations: Mead-Brown-Powell-Keyser, Kelly-Trumbo-Austin, Toler-Prichard : Virginia-Kentucky

Source Information Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.

1820 U.S. Census [Pulaski County, Kentucky]

In 1820, the couple lives on a farm in Pulaski, Kentucky. In addition to Louden and Elizabeth, the couple had four children, three girls and a boy.^[3][4]

1830 U.S. Census [Pulaski County, Kentucky]

In 1830, the family had grown to include 10 children - four boys and and six girls. They also had four slaves on their farm. ^[5][6]

1831 Land Grant in Kentucky

On 15, Aug 1831, Lowden owned 100 acres in Pulaski, Kentucky. . ^[7]

1838 Move to MIssouri and 1840 U.S. Census

The Brown family moved from Kentucky to Missouri in the fall of 1838, first settling in Lafayette County, Missouri. They settled on a farm in Blythe, Caldwell, Missouri if February 1838. In addition to the family of 11, they also had 5 slaves recorded. ^[8][9]

1850 U.S. Census [Caldwell, Missouri]

On June 1, 1850,^[10] Louden receives a land patant for 37 acres of Caldwell, Missouri land.

He appears on the 1850 Slave schedule as having five slaves. ^[11] and his family still lives in Caldwell. He has five children enumerated. ^[12]

Two years later, on 1 October, 1852 ^[13], he acquires another 40 acres nearby.

1850 U.S. Census [Caldwell, Missouri] gives Elisabeth's birth year as 1795

Elisabeth Brown in the 1850 United States Federal Census

• Name: Elisabeth Brown
• Age: 55
• Birth Year: abt 1795
• Birthplace: Virginia
• Home in 1850: District 11, Caldwell, Missouri, USA
• Gender: Female
• Family Number: 159

Household Members:

• London Brown 60
• Elisabeth Brown 55
• William Brown 23
• Saml Brown 22
• Emeline Brown 19
• Jane Brown 17
• Bowlin Brown 15

Source Citation Year: 1850; Census Place: District 11, Caldwell, Missouri; Roll: M432_393; Page: 180B; Image: 361

Source Information Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Find A Grave Index

Elizabeth Brown in the U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current

Go to website: Find A Grave Memorial No. 10567374

• Name: Elizabeth Brown
• Maiden Name: Gover
• Birth Date: 1794
• Birth Place: Virginia, United States of America
• Death Date: 1877
• Death Place: Caldwell County, Missouri, United States of America
• Cemetery: Brown Cemetery
• Burial or Cremation Place: Kingston, Caldwell County, Missouri, United States of America
• Has Bio?: N
• Spouse: Lowden Brown

Children:

• Elizabeth Emeline Cline
• Samuel T. Brown
• Jane Frances Houghton
• Bowlin F Brown
• John Wesley Brown
• William Lowden Brown
• Lucy W Cox
• Polly Long
• Nancy S. Buster

Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.