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Elizabeth Holloway (Harrison) Brown (1842 - 1910)

Elizabeth Holloway (Bettie) Brown formerly Harrison
Born in Caswell, North Carolina, United Statesmap
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Wife of — married 6 Feb 1863 in Richmond, Henrico, Virginiamap
[children unknown]
Died at age 68 [location unknown]
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Biography

Elizabeth was born in 1842. Elizabeth Harrison married John Thompson Brown in 1863, who she met at Randolph Macon College. She was the daugther of Andrew Ware Harrison of Caswell County, North Carolina, who was "of the Upper James River Harrisons". Her mother, Matilda H, Harrison, was a Sharp from Manchester, Virginia. [1] She passed away in 1910 and is buried Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.

Sources

  1. Data on Some Virginia Families collected and compiled by Dakota Best Brown, Copyright 1979, Virginia Book Company, Berryville, Virginia. pg 31
  • "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR85-LWY : 5 December 2014), J Thompson Brown and Bettie H Harrison, 06 Feb 1863; citing Mecklenburg County, Virginia, reference p19 n3; FHL microfilm 32,551.




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daughter of Andrew Ware Harrison of Caswell County, "who was 'of the Upper James River Harrisons'. Her mother, Matilda H. Harrison, was a Sharp from Manchester, Virginia. Elizabeth Holloway Harrison Brown died in 1910, at the age of sixty-eight." (from book noted in previous comment)
posted by Liz (Noland) Shifflett
pp 31-43 are about her & John Thompson Brown/their descendants: Data on Some Virginia Families by Dakota Best Brown (1979)... accessed at the Walter Cecil Rawls Library & Museum, Courtland, Virginia
posted by Liz (Noland) Shifflett

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