Minnie Cornelia (Brown) Spradley (1878 - 1953)

Born 18 Jan 1878 in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Andrew Bonaparte Spradley — married 1897 in Nickerson, Reno, Kansas, United States

Descendants

Died 3 Jul 1953 at age 75 in Altadena, Los Angeles, California, United States

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Biography

Minnie Cornelia Brown was born on 18 Jan 1878 in Kansas City, Missouri to parents George Brown (Browne) and Maria (Mariah) Eagan. Her father died when she was 2 years old in Nickerson, Kansas, and her mother remarried when she was 5 years old.

At age 15 she lived with her sister Laura Scott and helped care for her two children.

She married Andrew (Andy) Bonaparte Spradley in 1897 in Nickerson, Kansas.

Children: Virginia (Virgie) Agnes, Francis William (Bud), Baby Girl, Andrew (Andy Byron), Lyle Browne.

She moved from Kansas to Anacortes by train with her husband, children, and mother-in-law Temperance Elizabeth Whittinghill in Apr 1907. After her husband died in 1939 she lived with her children, Virgie, Francis, and Lyle, at different times.

She died on 3 Jul 1953 in Altadena, Los Angeles, California.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF5J-3MB : 14 January 2022), Minnie Brown in household of George Brown, Nickerson, Reno, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm.

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMY7-55G : accessed 9 September 2022), Minnie Spudley in household of Maria Ditgen, Beloit Township Beloit City Ward 1-3, Mitchell, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 75, sheet 5A, family 102, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,491.

• "Kansas State Census, 1905", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QRRF-DCMM : 23 September 2019), Minnie C Spradley, 1905.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGVQ-RHP : accessed 9 September 2022), Minnie C Spradley in household of Andy B Spradley, Anacortes Ward 1, Skagit, Washington, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 262, sheet 11B, family 236, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1668; FHL microfilm 1,375,681.

• "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPMN-QQ9V : 24 April 2021), Brown in entry for Wm T Morrison and Virginia Spradley, 1917.

• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHF2-6NJ : 4 February 2021), Minnie Spiagley in entry for Andy Spiagley, 1920.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCQQ-K5X : accessed 9 September 2022), Minnie C Spradley in household of Andrew P Spradley, Fidalgo, Skagit, Washington, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 24, sheet 4A, line 46, family 105, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2513; FHL microfilm 2,342,247.

• "Canada, British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL21-C82 : 8 November 2017), Minnie Spradley in entry for Andy B Spradley, 1939.

• "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPDN-T7F : 26 November 2014), Minnie Brown Spradley, 03 Jul 1953; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.

• "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGL2-9PD1 : 1 March 2021), Minnie Brown Spradley, 1953.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154996195/minnie-cornelia-spradley: accessed 22 April 2023), memorial page for Minnie Cornelia Brown Spradley (18 Jan 1878–3 Jul 1953), Find A Grave: Memorial #154996195, citing Grand View Cemetery, Anacortes, Skagit County, Washington, USA.