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Minnie Belle BROWN

Minnie Belle BROWN

Female 1894 - 1965  (70 years)


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  • Name Minnie Belle BROWN  [1]
    Birth 29 Nov 1894  Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    • Birth date given in 1900 Census as Nov 1893.
    Gender Female
    Census 1900  West Union District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1913  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1920, 1930  Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1940  Tenmile District, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 29 Aug 1965  Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Burial Floral Hills Memorial Gardens, Quiet Dell, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Person ID I8382  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 24 Feb 2016

    Father George Washington BROWN,   b. 7 May 1856, Monroe Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 May 1931, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
    Mother Mary Virginia THOMAS,   b. CA 1856, Hampshire Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef Jun 1900 (Age ~ 44 years)
    Family ID F16776  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Howard David HAUGHT,   b. 11 Apr 1889, Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Oct 1940, Lost Creek, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years)  [4]
    Marriage 2 Feb 1913  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Divorce Y  [6]
    Notes 
    • 1920 Census, Harrison Co, WV (City of Clarksburg), enumerated on Jan 9 1920 at 406 Haymond Ave:
      Howard D. Haught, 30, mail carrier; wife Minnie, 26; son Paul A, 5; dau Wanda, 2y 3m.

      1930 Census, Harrison Co, WV (City of Clarksburg), enumerated on Apr 22 1930:
      Minnie Haught, 35, married, occupation domestic, monthly rent $52.50; son Paul A, 16; dau Wanda L, 12; lodger Roy F. Clopp, 38, b. Pa. (both parents b. Pa.), married, glass cutter in factory; lodger Joseph E. Nayler (?), 29, b. Indiana (both parents b. Belgium), married, glass cutter in factory.
    Children 
    >1. Paul Anthony HAUGHT,   b. 27 Mar 1914, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Jun 1991, Greensboro, Guilford Co, NC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
    >2. Wanda Lucille HAUGHT,   b. 20 Sep 1917, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Sep 2002 (Age 84 years)
    Family ID F2989  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Wilbur BRACEY,   b. CA 1889
    Notes 
    • 1940 Census, Harrison Co, WV (Tenmile District), enumerated on Apr 6 1940 at "Route Fifty West of Salem W.Va.":
      Wilbur Bracey, 51, glass cutter in flat glass factory, 8 yrs schooling; wife Minnie Bracey, 45, 8 yrs schooling; stepson Paul Haught, 26, single, glass cutter in flat glass factory, 4 yrs college; stepdau Wanda L. Haught, 22, single, 1 yr college; lodger Evelyn I. Jones, 19, 1 yr H.S.
      (NOTE: In Minnie Brown (Haught) Bracey's will, Evelyn Jones was identified as her foster daughter.)
    Family ID F43835  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
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  • Sources 
    1. [S1554] Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV.

    2. [S2569] West Virginia Births Index, 1853-1969 [database on-line], (Ancestry.com).

    3. [S2568] West Virginia Deaths Index, 1853-1973 [database on-line], (Ancestry.com).

    4. [S894] W. B. Haught, Genealogy of the Haught Family of America, (1948), p. 166.

    5. [S1554] Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV, MR p. 130 : www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11794528&Type=Marriage.
      Identified as Howard D. Haught, 23, b. & res. in Doddridge Co; and Minnie B. Brown, 19, b. & res. in Doddridge Co. Married Feb 2 1913 in West Union, officiated by John R. Clark, a Minister of the Christian Church.

    6. [S1966] Record of husband's remarriage, Harrison Co MR p. 488.
      Husband Howard David Haught's marital status was listed as divorced at the time of his application for a marriage licence with Alice Lee Swiger in Feb 1931.