Keziah (Hooper) Brown (abt. 1794 - 1889)

Born about 1794 in Pendleton, South Carolina

Ancestors

Wife of Milton Montcalm Brown — married about 1821 in Haywood, North Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died 23 Aug 1889 at about age 95 in Towns, Georgia

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Biography

Keziah Hooper was born in 1794 to Absalom Hooper and Sarah Salers. About 1821, Milton Brown took out a bond in Haywood County, North Carolina, to marry “Kesiah Hooper Daughter of Absolom Hooper.”^[1]

The Milton Brown family eventually made their way to Towns County, Georgia, where Keziah Hooper Brown died 23 August 1889. Her death was recorded in the annual minutes of the Toccoa Primitive Baptist Church Association as follows: “Sister Kizy Brown departed this life August 23, 1889, age about 94 years. She lived a member of the church about 60 years.”^[2] She is buried in Many Forks Cemetery, Towns County, Georgia.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979," database with images, FamilySearch, Marriage Bond of Milton Brown and Kesiah Hooper, undated, (accessed 22 September 2021); citing North Carolina State Archives Division of Archives and History. The bond is undated, but was made when Jesse Franklin was Governor of North Carolina. He was in office from December 1820 to December 1821.
2. ↑ Minutes of the Toccoa Primitive Baptist Association, 1889. Copy in the possession of Jason Lee Edwards.
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #43648413

• "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YTR-3C8T?cc=1803958&wc=35Y4-ZJH%3A1588475002%2C1588472623%2C1588469601 Household of Milton Brown, Macon County, North Carolina], (accessed 22 September 2021); citing NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch, Household of Milton Brown, Cherokee County, North Carolina, (accessed 22 September 2021); citing NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch, Household of Milton Brown, Union County, Georgia, (accessed 22 September 2021); citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860," database with images, FamilySearch, Household of Milton Brown, Towns County, Georgia, (accessed 22 September 2021); citing NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch, Household of Milton Brown, Clay County, North Carolina, (accessed 22 September 2021); citing NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch, Household of Kizzy Brown, Towns County, Georgia, (accessed 22 September 2021); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., n.d.).