Jeanette (Turner) Brown (1867 - 1954)

Born 24 Aug 1867 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio

Ancestors

Wife of Elmore Grant Brown — married 27 Aug 1890 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States

Descendants

Died 7 May 1954 at age 86 in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio

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Biography

Jeanette Turner, the daughter of George Washington Turner and Martha Melissa (Forbes) Turner, was born on Aug. 24, 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio. She raised in the east end of Cincinnati between Tusculum and Linwood.^[1]

On Aug. 27, 1890, Jeanette Turner married Elmore Grant Brown. Elmore Brown was raised in Newtown and was a carpenter by trade, as were all his uncles and his father. Their first home was on Beechmont Ave. in Linwood. Elmore and Jeanette Brown had three children:

Herbert Elmore Brown, b. July 5, 1892, m. Katherine Edna Meier;

Erma May Brown, b. May 15, 1894, m. William Ellis Pruiett in 1915; and

Charles Harmon Brown, b. July 18, 1909, m. Suzanne K. Kuhn in 1934.

By 1915 Elmore and Jeanette Brown had moved to Garland Ave. Elmore Brown was custodian of Linwood School. Both Ralph and Thelma Pruett, their grandchildren, were born in the house on Garland Ave. Sometime around 1921 or 1922, Elmore lost his job at the school. They sold their home on Garland Ave. and invested in a candy store in the Brighton District of Cincinnati. When Central Parkway was built, the hill behind the store started slipping, so they had to evacuate the building. They moved the store to 1163 Harrison Ave., one block east of Spring Grove Ave. The store was one block from the street car barn and much of their trade came from them. The store was in two parts. One half was ice cream, candy and tobacco. The other half was Dry Goods.

Elmore Grant Brown died on Feb. 19, 1931 and Jeanette Brown sold the store. Shortly after selling the store on Harrison Ave., her son Charles talked his mother into buying a store at 14th and Race Streets in the Over-the-Rhine District. After Charles got married, the store was too much work for Jeanette Brown. She sold it and moved to 2456 Gilbert Ave. at Peebles Corner. Over the years, her eyesight got worse and by the time she died on May 7, 1954 she was totally blind. Both Elmore Grant and Jeanette Brown are buried at Flag Spring Cemetery in Newtown, Hamilton Co., Ohio.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.pruiett-parker.com/turner6.php
2. ↑ https://www.pruiett-parker.com/brown3.php