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Elsye Mae Griffin Carnes Brown

31 Oct 1901 – 23 Oct 1939

Birth	31 Oct 1901
Death	23 Oct 1939
Cemetery	Devine Evergreen Cemetery Devine , Medina County , Texas , USA
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136223652

Bio

MOTHER AND BABE DEAD BODIES BURIED HER Mrs. Elsye Griffin Brown, born near Devine, Oct. 31st, 1901, passed away in childbirth at Kerrville, early Monday, October 23rd, 1939, and the body, with babe in arms, resting in a grey casket was brought here late Monday by a Kerrville undertaker and placed in the Redus Undertaking parlors, and the next afternoon, buried after services at the Methodist Church, where she joined in her girlhood days. She is survived by her husband, Archie C. Brown; two daughters, Mrs. Lorice Tampkin and Tine Marie; her aged father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. D.H. Griffin; four sisters, Mrs. Eunice Haass, Mrs. Fay Thetford, Mrs.Ina Evans and Mrs. Iris Rabb; three brothers, Alton and Claude Griffin, and Josh Martin, a half brother. She came of pioneer and the oldest families in this section, the Griffin and Herrings (mother's family). The funeral was conducted by Rev. S.R. Horwood, pastor, the editor assisting, and the bodies were laid to rest in Evergreen Cemetery and the grave covered with beautiful flowers. The pallbearers were John F. and Arnold Griffin; Raymond Bendele, of Devine; Fred Murray, of San Angelo; H.B. Engleman and Arthur Walker, of Kerrville.

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Family

Parents

• David Hezekiah Griffin 1874–1959
• Tidy Mae Herring Griffin 1874–1942

Spouse

• Archie Carlton Brown 1892–1948 FaG

Siblings

• Josh Herring Martin 1894–1968
• Claude Dave Griffin 1903–1992
• Eunice Alice Griffin Chipman 1905–1950
• Ina Evelyn Griffin Evans 1907–1991
• Alton Lancelot Griffin 1908–1986
• Mary Faye Griffin Thetford 1911–1987

Children

• Edith Laurice Carnes Tamplin 1921–1956 FaG
• Tidy Marie Carnes Leinweber 1924–1947 FaG

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