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Maria R "Marie" Brown Brown-Tyson

7 Oct 1847 – 7 Aug 1906

Birth7 Oct 1847
Death7 Aug 1906
CemeteryTecumseh Cemetery
Tecumseh , Johnson County , Nebraska , USA
Added byJean Gieser Brandt on 11 Aug 2020
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***DIRECT MAYFLOWER DESCENDANT (See notes below)*** Maria R. Brown Tyson was born 7 Oct 1847 in Peterboro, New York. (although her death certificate states 17 Dec 1848, but I think that may be in error as there is a lot of incomplete information in her death certificate) She was the daughter of Jerome Brown & Abigail Hall Brown. Maria married her 1st cousin, William Ellis Brown, on 13 Nov 1863 in Beaver Dam, WI (according to Ellis' Civil War pension papers). Maria's husband William Ellis Brown (AKA "Ellis Brown" - but Civil War records list him as "William E. Brown" to distinguish him from the other "Ellis Brown" who served in his company) was a Private in Company C of the First Wisconsin Cavalry and he married Maria just after he had a several month hospital stay during the war in Nashville, Tennessee. During the war Maria stayed with her parents Jerome and Abigail Brown in Mayville, WI. Maria's husband was taken prisoner on 30 July 1863 in Newnan, Coweta, Georgia during a raid. He was sent to the infamous Camp Sumter (AKA "Andersonville") where he was imprisoned for 9 long months until the end of the war. When Ellis was discharged in Madison, WI in June of 1865 he reunited with his wife and he was in very poor health due to injuries and imprisonment. He and Maria continued to stay with her parents (who were also his aunt & uncle) and also moved with them to New Lisbon, WI in 1867. Sometime in 1871 Maria & Ellis moved "out west" and we know from their son, Charles' obituary that they were in Craig, MO at one point. By 1875 they were settled in Howe, Nemaha County, Nebraska where Ellis' mother & her second husband and family lived (they moved next door to Ellis' mother's family). Maria's husband struggled to work due to lifelong injuries from the war. He was a farmer and neighbors helped him. He finally applied for an invalid pension in 1888. And sadly two years later at age 47 Ellis passed away on 28 Sep 1890 in Howe, Nebraska. Maria & Ellis had 5 children together: Zelma Maria, Mamie Inez, Charles, Judson J. and Leslie Arthur Brown. Two of their sons, Charles & Judson J. Brown were deaf/mute. After Ellis' death Maria moved to Tecumseh, Nebraska and on 25 Nov 1892 in Hiawatha, Brown County, Kansas Maria married John W. Tyson also from Tecumseh. John's children were adults at the time of their marriage and Maria's youngest son, Leslie, was 12 years old and lived with his mother & step father. John and Maria did not have children together. Maria passed away on 7 Aug 1906 leaving behind her second husband John and her children from her first marriage. ************************************************************ Maria R. Brown was a direct descendant of 7 Mayflower passengers through her father, Jerome B. Brown's lineage. Her Mayflower ancestors included John Howland and his wife, Elizabeth Tilley, Elizabeth's parent's John Tilley and Joan Hurst Tilley who both perished the first winter in the New World, John Cooke (his father Francis Cooke was also a passenger) and Richard Warren. Maria is also related indirectly to John Tilley's brother, Edward (Elizabeth Tilly's uncle) & his wife Ann Cooper Tilley both of whom also perished the first winter leaving Elizabeth an orphan at age 14. John Howland, John Tilley and his brother, Edward Tilley, Francis Cooke, and Richard Warren all signed the Mayflower Compact.

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