MY RIVERSIDE CEMETERY TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS
SCRAPBOOK PART VII
By Jonathan K.T. Smith
Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 1995(Page 49)
BROWN, CARUTHERS AND OTHERS (LOT 266)
LOT 266, BROWN, CARUTHERS AND OTHERS
[Lots 265 and 266. BROWN-CARUTHERS-DANCY in Tombstone Inscriptions]An addenda to account of this lot in MY RIVERSIDE CEMETERY TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS SCRAPBOOK, Part VI. (Jackson, 1995), pages 1-5.
Judge Milton Brown family Bible record; courtesy of Laura Jobe Clemmons, owner of this Bible published in New York by Thomas Mason and George Lane, 1837.
Marriages-Births:
Milton Brown, native of Ohio, born 28th Feby. 1804 and Sarah F. Torian, native of Virginia, born 22nd December 1817 married in Tennessee on the twenty first day of January 1835
Dr. J. T. Gilmore /married/ to Lizzie Jane Brown 26th July 1865
Col. Clifton Dancy /married/ to Sarah Torian Brown 27th July 1875
Alexander Jackson Brown born fourth of November eighteen hundred & thirty five
Milton Ignatius Brown born twenty third of July eighteen hundred & thirty seven
William Stoddert Brown born 30th of December eighteen hundred and thirty eight
Elizabeth Jane Brown born twenty second of August eighteen hundred and forty
Sarah Torian Brown born eighth of December eighteen hundred and forty six
Elvira Caroline Brown born thirty first of August eighteen hundred and fifty two
Robert Bailey Brown born twenty fourth of July eighteen hundred and fifty fourDeaths:
William Stoddert Brown died eighth of August eighteen hundred and thirty nine
Alexander J. Brown died 15th April 1865
S. F. Brown died 10th of May 1876
Milton Brown died 14th of May 1883
John T. Gilmore family
Bible record; courtesy of Laura Jobe Clemmons, owner of this Bible published in Hartford, Conn. by Worthington, Dustin & Co., 1873
Births:
Milton Brown Gilmore April 27th 1866
Hervey Brown Gilmore Jany. 8th 1868John Taylor Gilrnore, Jr. August 23rd 1869
Mary Gilmore Jany. (no day) 1875
Dr. John Taylor Gilmore Born Dec. 7th 1835
Elizabeth Jane Gilmore Born August 1840Marriages:
Dr. J. T. Gilmore to Lizzie Jane Brown 26th July 1865
Hervey Brown Gilmore to Mary Lou McCorry 27th November 1889Deaths:
John Taylor Gilmore, Jr. March 1st 1871
Dr. J. T. Gilmore 19th September 1875
Hervey Brown Gilmore May 25th 1897
Milton Brown Gilmore February 27th 1906
Elizabeth Jane Brown Gilmore Sept. 8th 1908
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Bible that belonged to Lizzie Jane Brown Gilmore; courtesy of Laura Jobe Clemmons, owner of this Bible inscribed within "Mrs. M. L. B. Brown Family Bible presented by her husband." Published in Philadelphia, M. Carey Co., 1813. M. L. B. Brown having been Martha Leonora B. Brown, wife of Hervey Brown.
Contained no family section but has long obituary for Dr. J. T. Gilmore, some of which reads,
Died on Sunday, September 19th, 1875, at the residence of his father-in-law, Hon. Milton Brown, Dr. J. T. Gilmore of Mobile. Dr. Gilmore was born in Lowndes County, Mississippi on the 7th of December, 1835. . . . was prepared to enter the junior class of the University of North Carolina in 1855, and graduated two years afterwards. Soon thereafter he entered the office as private pupil of Dr. T. Gaillard Thomas, formerly of South Carolina, but then, as now, at the head of the medical profession in the city of New York. He continued his medical studies at Bellview Medical College in that city, where he graduated, but wishing to prosecute his medical studies still further in the United States, he repaired to Philadelphia, where under the teachings of the distinguished professors . . . of the Jefferson Medical College. His ambition to excel in this department of medicine, and his delicate health, induced him to go to France where he spent three years in the University of Paris, in the prosecution of his medical studies. He returned home just before the war and formed a partnership with his father's family physician, Dr. N. Scales and commenced the practice of his profession. Soon after his entrance upon the practice, the war broke out, and he entered the Confederate Army and was commissioned a surgeon of the 13th Regiment of Mississippi Volunteers. . . . He was promoted to Division Surgeon and transferred to the Division commanded by Maj. Gen. McLaws and afterwards by Maj. General Kershaw of South Carolina. . . . He then was transferred to the Army of the Valley of Virginia, under the command of Lieutenant Gen. T. J. Jackson. . . . On account of bad health, he was transferred and placed at the head of the Hospital Service at Greenville, South Carolina, where he remained until the close of the war. Soon after he returned home he was married to Miss Elizabeth J. Brown of this city and settled in Mobile. He was, soon after, elected to the Professorship of Anatomy and Clinical Surgery, which he very ably filled for three years, and then was transferred to the chair of Surgery in the University of Alabama, which he continued to fill up to the close of the course of lectures last spring, with distinguished ability. . . . He was buried with the form and ceremony of the Roman Catholic church, of which he had recently become a member. . . .
Family Bible record of James Caruthers, Sr., so noted in front of this Bible, with written date of 1824. Courtesy of Laura Jobe Clemmons, its owner. This Bible was published in Baltimore, Md. by Lewis & Coleman.
Births:
Thomas son of James & Frances, was born Thursday August 31st 1825 10 AM
William was born Oct. 3rd 1827 3 PM
Virginia was born Nov. 11th 1829 4 AM
Laura Emma was born May 25 1831 5 AM
James was born June 1st 1833 2 PM
Frances Alice was born Dec. 21st 1835
Susan Medora was born Sept. 11th 1838 1/2 12 m
Jo Henry was born April 8th 1841
Stoddert was born Feb. 2lst 1845
Sally Parker was born April 5th 1848 8PM
(Births of several grandchildren listed)Marriages:
James Caruthers & Frances Eliza McCorrywere married Sept. 16th 1824 by the Revd. Thos. Nelson at the Eagle Bend in Anderson Co. E. Tenn. James
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Caruthers was born in Rockbridge Co. Va. March 1st 1795
Frances Eliza McCorry was born in Knoxville E. Tenn. March 5th 1808
Virginia Caruthers & Joseph B. Freeman were married (no date)
William Caruthers & Mary J. Stoddert were married (no date)
Laura E. Caruthers & Sydney McClanahan were married Dec. 18th 1860
Sallie P. Caruthers & Middleton Hays were married Dec. 17th 1868
Stoddert Caruthers & Ella Brown were married June 7th 1888 by Rev. A. W. Jones D.D. at 9 a.m.
Elvira Caroline Brown wife of Stoddert Caruthers was born 31st of August 1853 in the city of Jackson, Tenn.Deaths:
Thomas Caruthers died on the 8th June 1826
Frances Alice died Dec. 14th 1840
Virginia Caruthers Freeman died on the 5th of March 1861
Joseph B. Freeman was wounded at the battle of Shiloh on the 6th of April & died on the 7th, 1862. C.S.A.
William Caruthers died March 24th 1864
James Caruthers, Jr. died November 29th 1864
Frances Eliza Caruthers died on the 4th of March 1859 after an illness of five months
James Caruthers died March 17th 1863
S. M. Caruthers died June 13th 1888
Jo. H. Caruthers died in Hackett City, Ark. March 9th 1888
Laura E. Caruthers (Mrs. A. S. McClanahan)died Feb. 23rd 1889 Arkansas
Sallie Parker Hays died April 3rd 8 PM 1890
(Deaths of several grandchildren listed)Memorandums:
Births of Children of Stoddert & E. B. Caruthers:
Hervy Brown Caruthers was born May 17th 1889 at 3 PM
Medora L. Caruthers was born June 27th 1890 at 3 PM
Sarah Torian Caruthers was born May 7th 1892 at 12:30 PM
Ella Brown Caruthers was born Oct. 18th 1894 at 4:45 PMThomas McCorry was born in Monymore, Ireland in Oct. 1776
Sally Jones Parker was born in Sussex Co., Virginia on the 18th Apr. 1782. They married in Tennessee in 1801 and had nine children, seven daughters and two sons. Thomas McCorry & Sally his wife died in 1835, Thomas the 4th May, Sally on the 27th Dec.
Stoddert Caruthers died Dec. 20, 1904 in Jackson, Tennessee
Obituary of Nelson McClanahan
THE DAILY APPEAL, see May 12, 1851:
OBITUARY.
Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath,
And stars to set - but all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine, O Death.Died - At residence of Samuel McClanahan, in Jackson, Tenn., on Tuesday morning, 6th instant, of conjestion of the lungs, NELSON McCLANAHAN, in the 27th year of his age.
The deceased was a native of the Laurens District, S.C., but had been for the last 20 years a citizen of the place where he died. He was a young man of high hopes and promise and was possessed of all those qualities, both of hear and heart, which constitute the upright citizen and true gentleman. He possessed, from his earliest youth, a nice sense of honor and a chivalrous bearing which won for him both the friendship and admiration of those with whom he associated. At the summons of his country he entered the war with Mexico, in which he served with honor and distinction as a lieutenant in the 14th infantry under Col. Trousdale, participating in the battles o f the valley and at the gates of the city. In the . . . [unreadable word] walks of life and in the social circle he ever . . . [unreadable word] that retiring affability indicative of modest merit and genuine worth. But in the midst of his fervent aspirations, he has been stricken down by the great destroyer. The slumbers of death have closed upon his eye-lids, and he sleeps quietly in that narrow house whither all are hastening with rapid page. Peaceful be his rest.
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