Wood & Torbert Families

Johnnie Eloise Brown

b. 30 August 1912, d. 27 July 1986

Johnnie Eloise Brown, 1912-1986

Johnnie Eloise Brown was born on 30 August 1912 in Texas.
She was known as Eloise.
A photographic portrait was made of cousins Maegene Bay, John Bay Wood and Eloise Brown, about 1914.
John Edwin and Stacy Scott Teague Bay were photographed with their children and grandchildren during 1915 in front of "the Bay hotel" in Richards.
Mary Lee Bay and John Brown and their daughter Eloise appear formally and informally, about 1917.
Some Wood and Bay cousins were captured in a photograph, about 1925.
She married William Buford Lee Chiles circa 1929.
William Buford Lee Chiles and Johnnie Eloise Brown appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Rankin, Upton County, Texas.
John William Brown and Mary Lee Bay appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Teague, Freestone County, Texas, at Sixth Avenue. Other members of the household included Johnnie Eloise Brown, William Buford Lee Chiles.
She was employed as a secretary by a retail merchant, according to the 1940 census.
She officially witnessed the death of John William Brown on 5 July 1940 in Teague, Freestone County, Texas.
Eloise was living in Teague when she amended daughter Johnnye Lee Chiles' birth record in Freestone County on 5 March 1942.
She officially witnessed the death of Mary Lee Bay on 6 May 1974 at Harris Hospital in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.
Johnnie Eloise Brown died on 27 July 1986 at age 73 in Tarrant County, Texas.
She was interred at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas.