Mary Jane Brown

(1834-1906)

Story

She married John Miller Wolfe (1829-1910) March 11,1857. They were the parents of 6 children. Bettie B. Wolfe (1857-1906); John Louis (or Lewis) Wolfe (1859-1917); Alice Wolfe (1860-1936), who married William Henry Rees (1859-1936); William Harwell Wolfe (1862-1945), who married Mary Ellen Ingle (1873-1973); Annie Zilphia Wolfe (1870-1953), who married Oscar Fitzallen Pearce (1856-1948); and Mary Vasseur Wolfe (1872- ), who married Richard Monroe Rees (1847-1925) [1] [2] [3].

Biographical Data

Important Dates

Mary Jane Brown was born on November 22, 1834, in North Carolina. She died March 8, 1906, and was buried in Green Hill Cemetery.

Relatives

• Parents: William Henry Brown (1809-1865) and Mary Louisa Vasseur (1813-1868).
• Spouse: John M. Wolfe, married on March 11, 1857 [4].
• Maternal grandparents: Toussaint Vasseur (d. 1815) and Charlotte Ann Layssard (d. 1856).
• Siblings:
  • seven brothers, Henry Nicholas Brown, [Sr.] (1831-1908), Ferdinand Brown (1833-1836), Morry J Brown (b. 1835), William Pearmain Brown (1836-1837), Oliver B. Brown (1846-1870), Edwin Lewis Brown, [Sr.] (1850-1919) and Leigh Olin Brown (1856-1932).
  • seven sisters, Charlotte Ann Brown (1838-1880) , Laura H. Brown (1840-1915) , Louisa Brown (b. 1834), Julia Frances Brown (1842-1925), Lucy Rebecca Brown (1844-1907), Olivia Bosanquit Brown (1845-1911) and Arabella William Brown (1848-1880).

References

1. Ancestry.com.
2. Wolfe Family Tree.
3. http://www.findagrave.com/
4. Vasseur-Brown Family Chart. From the Vasseur-Brown Bible. Information donated by Mrs. H. E. Hayes.