Mary Eliza Brown

b. 23 April 1838, d. 17 September 1880
  • Mary Eliza Brown was born on 23 April 1838 in Alabama.
  • Eliza Dixon Hall appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Montgomery County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Mary Eliza Brown, John R. Brown, Thomas Bolling Brown, George Washington Brown and Milton A. Brown.
  • She married Thomas Winfrey Oliver, son of Samuel Clark Oliver and Mildred Spencer McGehee, on 21 December 1854 in Montgomery County, Alabama.
  • 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."
  • Green Wood recorded in his book of Misc. Financial & Slave Records, an accounting for expenses of LIzzie A. Wood on 5 May 1860, cash handed to S. A. Wood in Galveston ($100.00), cash paid for expenses of Lizzie A. Wood to Galveston to Mr. T. Oliver ($22.00).
  • On Thursday, 24 May 1860, Green Wood recorded in his plantation daily account book: "Mr. T. Oliver and Lady and Doctor W. Johnson and Lady came," and on Friday, 1 May, "Mr. T. Oliver and Wife and Doctor Johnson and Lady left." [Identity of Dr. W. Johnson not yet known.]
  • Thomas Winfrey Oliver and Mary Eliza Brown appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Montgomery, Alabama. Other members of the household included Elizabeth Alabama Brown. Niece Alabama was also enumerated in her father's household in Montgomery County.
  • 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 and 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 Thomas Winfrey Oliver and Eliza Dixon Hall. 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.
  • Mary Eliza Brown died on 17 September 1880 at age 42.
  • Her husband Thomas Winfrey Oliver became a widower at her death.
  • She was interred at Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama.
  • Last Edited: 6 May 2013

Family: Thomas Winfrey Oliver b. 27 August 1827, d. 20 February 1899