Mary Elizabeth Brown

Mary Elizabeth Brown

• Father: Richard Trousdale Brown b. 22 October 1850, d. 6 February 1925
• Mother: Vallie Victoria Patton b. 30 August 1858, d. 9 March 1921

• Mary Elizabeth Brown was born in April 1877 in Tennessee.
• Richard Trousdale Brown and Vallie Victoria Patton appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Wilson County, Tennessee, enumerated on the same page as the Joseph H. Smith household.. Other members of the household included Mary Elizabeth Brown.
• She married Joseph Albert Smith, son of Joseph H. Smith and Mary M. Fakes, on 2 October 1892 in Wilson County, Tennessee, by license issued the 1st, with J. H. McFarland, JP, officiating.
• Joseph Albert Smith and Mary Elizabeth Brown appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Wilson County, Tennessee, enumerated one household away from Joseph Albert's parents. Other members of the household included Aubrey Norman Smith, Harry Trousdale Smith and Herschel Warren Smith. Boarding in he household was farm laborer Alex Woods, age 16.
• Joseph Albert Smith and Mary Elizabeth Brown appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Wilson County, Tennessee, at Old Cairo Bend Road. Other members of the household included Aubrey Norman Smith, Harry Trousdale Smith, Herschel Warren Smith, Claude Albert Smith and Valeria Smith.
• Joseph Albert Smith and Mary Elizabeth Brown appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Wilson County, Tennessee. Other members of the household included Claude Albert Smith and Valeria Smith.
• Mary Elizabeth Brown died on 3 April 1930 in Wilson County, Tennessee, of pulmonary tuberculosis. . Her death was officially witnessed by Joseph Albert Smith.
• Her husband Joseph Albert Smith became a widower at her death.
• She was interred at Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee.
• The following appeared on 10 April 1930 in The Lebanon Democrat: Mrs. Albert Smith, age 53, a native of Wilson county, died at her home on the Trousdale Ferry Pike about 5 o’clock Thursday morning. Funeral services were conducted from the Lebanon Baptist church with the Rev. George Ramsey of Smith county, and the Rev. Charles Yelton of Mt. Juliet in charge of the services.
       Mrs. Smith, who before her marriage was Miss Mary Eliza Brown, was a member of the Cedar Grove Baptist church. She had been in ill health since last July but her death came as a shock to her friends here.
       Surviving her are her husband and the following children, Aubrey, Harry, Herschell, Claud and Valere Smith. One sister, Mrs. Herman Holman, and two brothers, Wallace and Robert Brown, also survive.

• Last Edited: 21 Feb 2016