Eliza (Brown) Slavich (abt. 1865 - abt. 1900)

Born about 1865 in AL

Ancestors

Wife of Nichols Slavich — married 1 Jul 1889 (to 21 Feb 1898) in Cathedral Of The Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama, United States

Descendants

Died about Jun 1900 at about age 35 in Montgomery, Montgomery Co, AL

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Biography

It is believed that Eliza was born in Alabama about 1865. This comes from the 1880 US census for the City of Mobile, Mobile Co, AL, where she is found in the household of her uncle and aunt, Jonathan H. (aka Hardy) Brown and Martha E. Brown along with her brother, James, and cousins, Claudia--the daughter of Jonathan & Martha--and James Bonner. (How is James Bonner related to this family aside from being the nephew of the householder?)

Eliza married Nicholas Slavich in July 1889 at the Cathedral in Mobile. This event was announced in the Mobile, Montgomery, and New Orleans newspapers.

Eliza and Nicholas brought four children into the world: Aldrich Monroe, Myrtle Olive, and twins, Harvy (sic) and Hardy. Between the birth of the daughter and twins, Nicholas built the family a house on property purchased by Eliza in Creola, Mobile Co, AL, from the Ellison family. It was a large house with double doors to allow the moving in of a grand piano. (I have never seen the house except in a photograph which was taken during my mother's childhood.) There were live oaks planted along the driveway.

Apparently, they didn't live there for very long, because there was some difficulty which caused Nicholas to become combative and according to the divorce records found in the Mobile County Archives, abusive of his wife.

Eliza's divorce from Nichols Slavich became final in February 1898 in Mobile, Mobile Co, AL. She dropped her married name, Slavich, reverted to her maiden name, Brown, and left Mobile soon thereafter with the four children, her Uncle Hardy, Aunt Martha, brother, Jim, and Cousin Claudia.

It is believed they traveled as a family to West Blocton, where one of the twins died, then went on to Montgomery where she and Hardy died within a month of each other. (What is "lefritis"?) The remaining twin died 2 yrs later. Then Aunt Martha and Cousin Claudia followed in 1907.

All that remained of the Slavich family was Aldrich and Myrtle who no longer were known as "the Slavich children" but rather as "the Brown children".

Sources

• Oral family history. The story as told to Eleanor Brown Fagerstrom by her father, Aldrich Monroe Brown, aunt, Myrtle Olive Brown Pollock, and mother, Susie Anderson Brown, over the course of a lifetime.

1880 U.S. Census, Alabama, Mobile County, City of Mobile, Ward 8.

Divorce Case 6048, Chancery Court, 13th District Southwestern Division, Mobile County, Alabama

Record of Interment dtd 19 June 1900, Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama

• Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203280564/eliza-brown