BROWN, Lavina A. (Todd)

Date of birth:  25 Nov 1849 – Indiana
Date of death: 28 Apr 1891 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, May 1, 1891,
Volume XXXI Number 45, page 4 column 1

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Mrs. James M. Brown, after a lingering illness, died at her home in east Franklin on Tuesday morning. The funeral services were held at the Methodist church yesterday afternoon conducted by Rev. C. W. Tinsley.

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Link to Lavina A. (Todd) Brown’s grave

Notes: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 24 referencing Book H-16, page 24, records that Lavina Brown, a 42 year old white female, died 28 Apr 1891 in Franklin.

The 1850 and 1860 US Federal Censuses for Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana record Levina [sic] A. Todd (born in about 1850 in Indiana) in the household of her parents E. J. and Mary J. Todd.

Johnson County, Indiana.; Marriage Records 1851–1875 Valume 2, D. A. R., transcribed by Edna Thompson Bice, records on page 7 that James M. Brown married Lenna [sic] A. Todd on 7 Nov 1866.

The 1870 US Federal Census for Franklin, Johnson, Indiana records twenty-six-year-old, Indiana-born James Brown, his twenty-year-old, Indiana-born wife Lavina Brown and their one-year-old, Indiana-born son, William E Brown.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson