Emma Jane (Finch) Brown (1849 - 1912)

Born 27 Dec 1849 in Ontario, Canada

Wife of Elijah Brown — married 12 Jan 1873 (to 16 Feb 1907) in Neosho County, Kansas, USA

Descendants

Died 17 Jul 1912 at age 62 in Big Creek Township, Neosho, Kansas, United States

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Biography

Emma Jane (née Finch) Brown was born 27 Dec 1849 in Canada and died 17 Jul 1912 (aged 62 ) in Kansas, USA . She lies buried at Big Creek Cemetery, Neosho County, Kansas, USA.^[1]

Emma Jane Finch (1st marriage - 22 years old) married Elijah Brown (2nd marriage - 35 years old) on 12 Jan 1873 at Neosho, Kansas, United States.^[2] Children from this union included:

1. Luella H Brown (1873–1973)
2. Edith Irene Brown (1875–1949)
3. George Brown (1876–1877)
4. Charles Brown (1877–1877)
5. Lillian Etta Brown (1878–Deceased)
6. Fred Brown (1881–1951)
7. Olive A Brown (1883–1883)
8. Clarence Edwards Brown (1884–1886)
9. Minnie Julia Brown (1886–Deceased)
10. Ernest Leslie Brown (1889–1943)
11. James Arthur Brown (1891–1899)

In the 1880 US Federal Census we find Elijah Brown, age 42 and living in Big Creek Township, Neosho, Kansas, United States with Emma J. Brown, age 29 and his children by two marriages^[3]:

1. Maria Brown - Daughter by 1st marriage - 16 years - born in Kansas, United States
2. Joseph E. Brown - Son by 1st marriage - 14 years - born in Missouri, United States
3. Rufus Brown - Son by 1st marriage - 11 years - born in Kansas, United States
4. Silas G. Brown - Son by 1st marriage - 9 years - born in Kansas, United States
5. Edith Irene Brown - Daughter by 2nd marriage - 5 years - born in Kansas, United States
6. Lillie Etta Brown - Daughter by 2nd marriage - 1 year - born in Kansas, United States

Records show the following residences:

• Immigration to the USA (1853)
• 1860 - Brimfield, Peoria, Illinois
• 1870 - Erie, Neosho, Kansas
• 1 Mar 1875 - Big Creek, Neosho, Kansas
• 1880 - Big Creek, Neosho, Kansas, United States
• 1 Mar 1885 - Big Creek, Neosho, Kansas
• 1900 - Big Creek, Neosho, Kansas
• 1 Mar 1905 - St Paul, Neosho, Kansas
• 1910 - Big Creek, Neosho, Kansas

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #19439535
2. ↑ Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29Q-3C3X : 23 February 2021), Elijah Brown and Emma Jane Finch, 12 Jan 1873; citing Marriage, Neosho, Kansas, United States, district clerk, court clerk, county clerk and register offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 1,404,957.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF5D-XQ3 : 14 January 2022), Emma J. Brown in household of Elijah Brown, Big Creek Township, Neosho, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .

• "Public Member Trees", database, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/2421778/person/-1842807121/facts : accessed 4 March 2018), profile for Emma Jane Finch.