Husband: Edward Marshall Brown
Born: Sep-26-1832 in Lewis Co, (W)VA 1,2 Died: Aug- 6-1911 1 Buried: in Auburn Community Cemetery, Ritchie Co, WV 3 Military: Co E, 6th WV Inf, Civil War 3 Father: David E. Brown (1801 - 1889) Mother: Deborah Stalnaker (1806 - 1861) Other spouse 1
Wife: Rachel J. Zinn 4
Married: Jul-19-1877 in Ritchie Co, WV 5
Born: May- 9-1827 in Preston Co, (W)VA 6,2
Died: Oct-19-1924 in Ritchie Co, WV 7
Buried: in South Fork Baptist Church Cemetery, Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV 6
Father: Samuel Gandy Zinn (1806 - 1895)
Mother: Martha Miranda Weaver
Sources: (1) Headstone. (2) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985) (3) Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995. (4) Minnie Kendall Lowther, History of Ritchie County (1911, reprinted 1999, McClain Printing Co, Parsons WV, http://McClainPrinting.com), p. 231. (5) Ritchie County WV Marriages 1843-1915, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (July 1985), Identified as Edward M. Brown, widowed, 42, b. Lewis Co, res. Ritchie Co, son of David E. & Debora; and Rachel J. Zinn, 37, b. Preston Co, res. Ritchie Co, dau of Samuel. Married Jul 19 1877. The bride's stated age would put her birth in about 1840, but her death record of Oct 19 1924 shows her age as 97y5m10d and birth date as May 9 1827. (6) WV State Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_dcsearch.aspx) (7) Ritchie County WV Deaths 1918-1940, Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg, WV 26101 (Nov 1998)