Janie (Dunlap) Brewer (1897 - 1949)

Born 18 Sep 1897 in Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States

Wife of Fred Lorenzo Brewer — married 31 Mar 1921 in Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States

Died 8 Dec 1949 at age 52 in Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Janie (Dunlap) Brewer is a part of US Black heritage.

Janie was born in 1897 Moses Dunlap and Flora Tillman By 1900, her mother was listed as a widow. ^[1] Janie married Fred Brewer in 1921, and they had two children. She passed away in 1949.^[2]

Janie's son, Fred Lorenzo Brewer, Jr was a Tuskegee airman who went missing in action during World War II. He continues to be listed as Missing in Action with his name inscribed upon the Tablets of the Missing in Florence American Cemetery. There is an ongoing investigation regarding his possible identity as an unknown who was buried in an American Military Cemetery overseas.

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSBS-24S : accessed 14 March 2021), Ressa J Dunlap in household of Flora Dunlap, Township 1 Charlotte city Ward 1, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 43, sheet 9A, family 171, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,205.
2. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154662819/janie-brewer

• "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP9T-MXG9 : 28 November 2018), Fred Lorenzo Brewer and Janie Dunlap, 31 Mar 1921; citing Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States, p. , North Carolina State Archives Division of Archives and History; FHL microfilm .