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Brown, Almena
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| LAST: Brown
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FIRST: Almena
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| GENDER: F
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MAIDEN NAME: Smith
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TITLE: Mrs.
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| BORN: Abt 1840
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DIED: 2 Mar 1863
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| BIRTH PLACE: New York
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| DEATH PLACE: Oregon
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NOTES:
1850 IL CENSUS - Almena Smith, age 11, b. New York, is enumerated with Aaron A. Smith, age 51, farmer, b. New York, and Nancy, age 48, b. Rhode Island, along with Hazzard, age 19, Catharine, age 17, Moses, age 15, Nancy, age 13, Almira, age 11, Jerusha, age 9, all born in New York, and Phebe, age 7, b. Illinois.
MARRIAGE – “James B. [D.] Brown & Almena Smith, m 25 Dec 1861 at house of Aaron Smith; John F. Denny, M. G. Wit: Geo. W. Hunt & George Downing %560 pg 175”
[NOTE - James Brown married her younger sister, Phebe, in 1864 – see Moses Smith record]
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INSCRIPTION:
Almena
Wife of
James Davis Brown
Died
Mar. 2, 1863
Aged 23 yrs
Oh, when our sun is setting may we glide
Like summer evening down the golden tide
And leave behind us as we pass away
Sweet starry twilight around our sleeping clay
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SOURCES:
Saucy Survey & Photographs
Brown, Dyal & Marsh
1850 IL CENSUS (Knox Co., Twp 12, FA #2209)
Marion County Oregon Marriage Records, 1849-1871, Vol. I, pg 33
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