Lizzie H. (Watson) Brown (1868 - 1918)

Born 1 Jan 1868 in Randolph, Coos, New Hampshire, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Sidney M Brown — married 20 Jun 1885 in Randolph, Coos, New Hampshire, USA

Descendants

Died 11 Sep 1918 at age 50 in Randolph, Coos, New Hampshire, United States

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Biography

Lizzie H. Watson was born on January 1, 1868, in Randolph, New Hampshire, the daughter of Abel N. Watson and Cordelia Eliza Wight.^[1][2]

On June 20, 1885, in Randolph, New Hampshire, she married Sidney M. Brown.^[3] Known children:^[4]

1. Eugene S., b. 21 Dec 1885^[5]
2. Hollis W., b. Aug 1889
3. Gerald, b. Jan 1892
4. Ethel M., b. 1 Apr 1895^[6]
5. Sherman A., b. 6 Aug 1896^[7]

She died on September 11, 1918, in Randolph, New Hampshire.^[1] Her obituary:^[8]

On Friday afternoon of last week relatives and friends to the utmost capacity of the house gathered at Coldbrook Lodge to pay the last tribute of love and respect to Mrs. Sidney M. Brown. Elizabeth Watson was born in Randolph at the home farm that in her life time grew into the famous Ravine House. There she lived her childhood days, a quiet warm-hearted sunny girl, possessed of a spirit of self forgetfulness and sympathy that ever kept possession of the love not only of her family but of all her associates. In her early womanhood she married Sidney M. Brown. With the exception of a few years she lived her married life in the Randolph Valley among the friends and amid the scenes of her childhood.

On Friday as she lay in the parlor at Coldbrook Lodge among banks of flowers in the dignity and beauty of eternal rest triumphant over long physical suffering, at the head of the casket, rested a floral pillow inscribed "Mother", an expression of the filial devotion of five sons and a daughter. Christ said of the beautiful woman who poured the precious ointment of Nard upon his head, "She hath done what she could." So that pillow seemed to be a symbol of the life work of a beautiful woman who "had done what she could."

Mr. and Mrs. Brown have lived in Harmony for the past ten years or more and she made many friends here. She underwent a surgical operation in Berlin, N. H. last winter and has been a great sufferer ever since, until she passed to that "home not made by hands" on Wednesday, September 11. Eugene Brown of this place Hollis Brown of Athens and Gerald Brown of Abbot went to Randolph to attend the funeral.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSFG-2VP : Sun Oct 15 07:45:28 UTC 2023), Entry for Lizzie H. Brown and Abel N. Watson, 11 Sep 1918.
2. ↑ Representative Citizens of the State of New Hampshire (New England Historical Publishing Company, Boston, 1902) Page 289
3. ↑ "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLXL-KZJ : Mon Oct 23 16:41:21 UTC 2023), Entry for Sidney M Brown and Lizzie H Watson, 1885.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1900", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3Y3-CLF : Fri Oct 06 00:09:51 UTC 2023), Entry for Sidney Brown and Elizabeth S Brown, 1900.
5. ↑ "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLLH-ZMB : Fri Oct 06 02:02:23 UTC 2023), Entry for Brown and Sydney Brown, 21 December 1885.
6. ↑ "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLL4-X4R : Thu Oct 05 02:02:01 UTC 2023), Entry for Ethel M Brown and Sidney M Brown, 1 April 1875.
7. ↑ "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLLH-Z9Q : Wed Oct 04 11:24:38 UTC 2023), Entry for Sherman A Brown and Sidney M Brown, 26 August 1896.
8. ↑ Independent-Reporter (Skowhegan, Me.), 3 Oct 1918, Page 8

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153771407/lizzie-h-brown: accessed 06 February 2024), memorial page for Lizzie H. Watson Brown (1868–1918), Find a Grave Memorial ID 153771407, citing Durand Road Cemetery, Randolph, Coos County, New Hampshire, USA; Maintained by Avellino Roots (contributor 46797866).