Eliza Dixon Hall

b. 7 July 1806, d. January 1887
  • Eliza Dixon Hall was born on 7 July 1806 in Georgia.
  • She married Thomas Brown, son of Thomas Brown, on 13 February 1823.
  • Eliza Dixon Hall became a widow at the 10 July 1843 death of her husband Thomas Brown.
  • Eliza Dixon Hall appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Montgomery County, Alabama. Other members of the household included John R. Brown, Thomas Bolling Brown, George Washington Brown, Mary Eliza Brown and Milton A. Brown.
  • Evelina Wood wrote on 28 May 1855, to her daughter Lizzie Powell: ". . . I wrote to Cousin Eliza the 31st of April begging pleading and entreating her to go to you and stay with you -- she sent me word before I wrote her by John Shackelford she expected to start in two or three days to see you and I feared she would give it out and so I wrote to her the next day after I saw J Shackleford -- she has not answered my letter and say she did not go -- I yet hope she is now with you and may heavenly blessings attend her always if she has gone to my dear afflicted child who is deprived of a mother's watchful care. . . ."
  • On Monday, 12 April 1857, Green Wood recorded in his plantation daily account book: "Mrs. E. Brown, George W. Brown, and Mary Snodgrass and William Thompson from Alabama came this evening." And on Sunday, the 26th, "Mrs. Brown and G. W. Brown, Mary Snodgrass and Wm Thompson left."
  • On Tuesday, 1 June 1858, Green Wood recorded in his plantation daily account book: "Sent Bob with the Carriage & Abe with Jersy for Mr & Mrs Oliver," and on Thursday, the 3rd, "Bob returned with our friends." On Sunday, the 13th, "Mr Tom. Oliver Lady & Mother left for home this morning."
  • The following appeared on 7 August 1858 in The Daily Confederation: State of Alabama, Montgomery Co. Special Court of Probate, August 5, 1858. This day came Eliza D. Brown, Administratrix of estate of Thos. Brown, dec'd, and filed her account and vouchers for the annual settlement of said estate, which were examined and ordered to be filed for the inspection of all concerned; and ordered, that the 8th day of September, 1858, be set for the hearing of this application--      
    And it is therefore ordered, that notice of this application, and the day set for the hearing thereof, be given by publication for three successive weeks in the Confederation, a newspaper published in the county of Montgomery, notifying all persons interested to be and appear before a Court to be held on the 8th day of Sept'r next, to show cause why said account should not be stated and allowed. David Campbell, J. P. M. C. aug7-w3w.
  • Eliza Dixon Hall appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Montgomery, Alabama. Other members of the household included Thomas Bolling Brown, Milton A. Brown, John W. Brown and Thomas B. Brown. Thomas and his children also were enumerated as a separate family elsewhere in Montgomery County.
  • The following appeared on 20 June 1860 in the Daily Confederation: State of Alabama, Montgomery Co. Special Court of Probate, June 8, 1860. This day came Eliza D. Brown, Administratrix of the estate of Thomas Brown, dec'd, and filed her accounts and vouchers for the annual settlement of said estate, which was examined and ordered to be filed for the inspection of all concerned, and ordered that the 5th day of July, 1860, be set for the hearing of this application.      
    And it is therefore ordered that notice of this application and the day set for the hearing thereof, be given by publication for three successive weeks in the Confederation, a newspaper published in the county of Montgomery, notifying all persons interested to be and appear before a Court to be held on the 5th day of July next, 1860, to show cause, if any, why said accounts should not be stated and allowed. David Campbell, Judge of Probate. June15W3t.
  • The following appeared on 20 June 1860 in the Daily Confederation: State of Alabama, Montgomery Co. Special Court of Probate, June 8, 1860. This day came Eliza D. Brown, Administratrix of the estate of Thos. Brown, dec'd, and filed her accounts and vouchers for money laid out and expended for the use and benefit of M. A. Brown, a minor, which was examined and ordered to be filed for the inspection of all concerned, and ordered that the 5th day of July, 1860, be set for the hearing of this application.      
    And it is therefore ordered that notice of this application and the day set for the hearing thereof, be given by publication for three successive weeks in the Confederation, a newspaper published in the county of Montgomery, notifying all persons interested to be and appear before a Court to be held on the 5th day of July next, 1860, to show cause, if any, why said accounts should not be stated and allowed. David Campbell, Judge of Probate. June15W3t.
  • She was a planter, according to the 1860 census.
  • As executrix of Green Wood's estate, his widow Evelina sold five tracts of land, in aggregate about 1,174 acres, to Eliza Dixon Brown for the sum of $11,600, according to a deed dated 23 December 1867, recorded in the deed books of Montgomery County, Texas.
  • Thomas Winfrey Oliver and Mary Eliza Brown appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Montgomery, Alabama. Other members of the household included Eliza Dixon Hall, Alabama Brown. Oliver children in the household Thomas (age 10), Samuel (8) and Sallie (5) likely are nephews and niece, since their own son Thomas was born about 1873, and Sallie Oliver (age 15) is identified as a niece in 1880.
  • Thomas Winfrey Oliver and Mary Eliza Brown appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Walkers Beat, Montgomery County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Eliza Dixon Hall, Thomas Winfrey Oliver. Also in the household was niece Sallie Oliver, age 15, whose origins are not yet known. It appears that Eliza Dixon Hall Brown also is enumerated in Robinson Springs, Elmore County, as a boarder in the household of Henry C. Horton, widower of Eliza's deceased niece Sallie Jackson Horton, daughter of Emma Bolling Hall Jackson.
  • Eliza Dixon Hall died in January 1887 at age 80 in Elmore County, Alabama.
  • She was interred at the Brown plantation cemetery, Ware's Ferry Road, Montgomery, Alabama, later known as Brown-Oliver Cemetery, and more recently Winfrey Oliver Place Cemetery, next to Eastdale Baptist Church on Burbank Street in Montgomery.
  • The following appeared on 12 January 1947 in The Montgomery Advertiser: (in "The Days of Augusta, Alabama," by Peter A. Brannon): An advertisement dated February 10, 1821, in the Republican, announces that Dr. Thomas Brown "has removed to the town of Augusta in this county where he attends to the practice of medicine." Dr. Brown's dust is in the popularly known "Oliver Cemetery" (though it should be "Brown Cemetery") about five miles out on the Ware's Ferry Road near the old Ledyard property. In that small "half-acre" are some Mitchells, some Woods, as well as the family of Dr. Brown. On Dr. Brown's father's gravestone a lengthy inscription recites his Revolutionary War experience. This old veteran was from Culpepper County, Virginia, and was at King's Mountain with John Sevier and at Yorktown when Lord Cornwallis surrendered. He died at Augusta on January 9, 1827, of fever.
         In 1980, Montgomery Eagle Scout Troop 16 erected a monument at the cemetery, then known then known as the Winfrey Oliver Place Cemetery, naming eight of the individuals: Elizabeth Eason Wood, Leonard Abercrombie, Dr. Thomas Brown, Thomas Brown, Eliza Dixon Hall Brown, Edwin Brewer Brown, Henry Pollard Brown, and Thomas Bolling Brown. In August 2008, the Eagle Scout monument was broken off at its base, lying flat on the ground, and the only other monument remaining in the area was that of Leonard Abercrombie.
  • Last Edited: 20 Oct 2013

Family: Thomas Brown b. 19 February 1798, d. 10 July 1843