Amanda Minerva (Northcutt) Brown (1819 - 1905)

Born 24 Oct 1819 in Rutherford County, Tennessee

Ancestors

Wife of John Franklin Brown — married 1844 in Rutherford County, Tennessee

Descendants

Died 9 Oct 1905 at age 85 in Rutherford County, Tennessee

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Biography

Amanda Minerva is my great-great-grandmother. Somehow she has been left out of most family's lists of the children of William Northcutt (1782-1855) and Catherine Soap/Swope (1781-1865). But careful examination of the 1820 and 1830 census records in Rutherford County suggests that she is the missing daughter in the given age group. She married John Franklin Brown on Sept. 10, 1844. They had four children who lived to adulthood: Margaret (1845-1864), my great-grandfather Thomas Lafayette (1849-1916), Benjamin Rufus (1853-1889), and Sally Ann (1961-1893). In later years she and Frank moved to Oklahoma with their daughter. Frank died there and Minerva came back to Tennessee and lived with a cousin according to the 1900 census.

Sources

• Brown Family Bible, and family notes by George A. Brown, her grandson, in my possession.

A letter written by Octa Hill Richardson, Sally Ann Hill's daughter describes her grandmother on Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=17361458