Mary Ann Burpee (Stickney) Brown (1822 - 1917)

Born 6 May 1822 in Sheffield, Sunbury, New Brunswick

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Died 16 Dec 1917 at age 95 in Carleton, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada

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Biography

Hartland's "Observer" Newspaper Nov 9, 1911

"Back To Her Native Land"

On Oct. 26 Mrs. Mary Ann Browne arrived here from Cummington, Mass., and will in the future make her home with her niece Mrs. D. H. Nixon. Mrs. Browne is a sister of the late George Stickney and is hale and bright at the age of 89 years. She is a native of Brighton and in 1844 married Josiah Sawyer Browne, jr., son of "Old Squire" Browne once a well known man in the country. They went to Oxford county, Ontario in 1852 and there hewed out of the wilderness a home for themselves. Later Mrs. Browne went to live with her son, J. Franklin Browne, who accompanied her to Hartland. The son J. Franklin Browne, has spent the most of his life as a missonary teacher in the Southern States, but of late years has lived on a little farm in Cummington, Mass. The particular farm he occupies was the homestead of William Cullen Bryant, the famous author of "Tuanatopsis" and the great poet's monument is but a few rods away from Mr. Browne's door. Mr. Browne returned home on Friday last and before going, he made the Observer a pleasant call and stated that he hopes to be able soon to come back here to spend his remaining years.

Sources

• Jewett, Frederic Clarke, History and Genealogy of the Jewetts of America, Volume I, The Grafton Press, New York, 1908. Pg. 234.
• 1851 Canadian census for NB
• 1861 Canadian census for Ontario
• 1880 US census for Illinois
• 1910 US census for Massachusetts
• Find A Grave: Memorial #142942846, Greenwood Cemetery, Hartland, Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada