Ivory Jewel (Coffee) Brown (1930 - 2008)

Born 12 Sep 1930 in Jackson co tenn

Wife of Elmer Dewey Brown — married 25 Apr 1951 in Smith, Tennessee, United States

Died 1 Jun 2008 at age 77 in Smith, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Ivory was born in 1930. She passed away in 2008.

Research Notes

*Ivory Jewel Coffee Brown Birth: 12 Sep 1930 Jackson County, Tennessee, USA Death: 1 Jun 2018 (aged 87) Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee, USA Burial: Smith County Memorial Gardens, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee, USA Memorial #: 190253807 Bio: Mrs. Jewel Brown, an 87 year old homemaker of the Horseshoe Bend Community, died at 11:30 p.m. Thursday evening at the Concordia Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where she had made her home since March 31, 2015. She was pronounced deceased by Kindred Hospice of Cookeville at 12:55 a.m. Friday morning June 1, 2018.

Bro. Claude Henley and Mrs. Brown’s pastor, Bro. Wallace Caldwell, officiated at the 1 p.m. Monday afternoon funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Burial followed beside her husband in the Garden of the Cross at Smith County Memorial Gardens.

The eighth of nine children of the late Jonah Coffee and Sehrilda Scott Coffee, she was born Ivory Jewel Coffee on September 12, 1930 in the Fairview Community northeast of Gainesboro toward Hilham.

Siblings preceding her in death were Comer, Harlan, Marcus “Marc” and Charlie Coffee, Ova Coffee Scantland, Gladys Coffee Brown, Viola Coffee Brown and Stella Coffee Mahaney.

She was united in marriage by Carthage Justice of the Peace and Western Auto Store owner H. H. white on April 25, 1951 to Hilham Community native Elmer Dewey (Barrel) Brown, a longtime clerk at Smith County Hardware. He preceded her in death on May 11, 2004 at the age of 76.

She was preceded in death by two great-grandchildren, Michelle Owens who died in an auto accident in Nashville in September of 1991 at the age of 17 and Frank Dustin “Dusty” Owens who also died in an auto accident at the age of 21 on June 27, 2004 and a granddaughter-in-law, Kimberly Dawn “Kim” Craighead Brown who died from cancer at the age of 31 on February 1, 2010.

Mrs. Brown was saved at an early age and was a member of the Elmwood United Methodist Church.

Surviving are her five children, Jimmy Brown and wife Betty, Ronnie Brown, Connie Brown Savage and husband Jimmy, Ricky Brown, all of the Horseshoe Bend Community, Chris Brown of Flintville, TN; grandchildren, Penny Owens and husband Frank, Cheryl Brown, Stephen Brown and wife Andrea, Chasity Brown, Shane Brown and fiancée Camelia Donoho, Shawn Eastes, Tammy Shaw and husband Daniel, Raven Brown and fiancée Shane Fuson, Jeremia Brown, Jamie and Jordyn Brown; twenty great-grandchildren, Keisha Avendano and husband Rene, Joe Owens and wife Janna, Jon Owens, Matt Grisham, John Kuykendall, Emily Hughes, J. B. Hughes, Jalen and Olivia Brown, Drew Hughes, Megan Bucy and fiancée Kyle Seymour, Tristion Hood, Hayden Washer, Jonah, Elijah and Justin Brown, Eric, Brittany and Alyssa Shaw and Carson Fuson; five great-grandchildren, Colton and Brooklyn Avendano, Mattie Grisham, Asher Lawing, Harper Endsley.

SANDERSONFH.COM Family Members Parents Jonah Coffee 1883-1978 Schrilda Scott Coffee 1893-1970 Spouse Elmer Dewey Brown 1927-2004 Siblings Harlin Hubert Coffee 1922-1976 Stella Ruth Mahaney 1934-1958 Children Ronnie Brown 1954-2020 Connie Brown Savage 1957-2019 Created by: Lucette Kemp (48393079) Added: 1 Jun 2018 URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190253807/ivory-jewel-brown Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190253807/ivory-jewel-brown: accessed 16 November 2022), memorial page for Ivory Jewel Coffee Brown (12 Sep 1930–1 Jun 2018), Find a Grave Memorial ID 190253807, citing Smith County Memorial Gardens, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee, USA; Maintained by Lucette Kemp (contributor 48393079) .

Sources

• Webbs of Jackson County by Raymond D. Barnes.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4CP-8JP : 11 January 2021), Jewel Coffee in household of Jonah Coffee, Civil District 6, Jackson, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 44-7, sheet 10A, line 35, family 151, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3907.

• "Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8BW-XM6 : 16 March 2020), Jewell Coffee in entry for Elmer Brown, 1951.