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Mar 26, 2016 · by Sandra Weber. 4 Comments. Last weekend, the Saratoga Historical Society in California celebrated the 200th birthday of Mary Ann Day Brown, wife of radical abolitionist John Brown. The milestone was observed a few weeks prior to her actual birthday (April 15) to coincide with the Blossom Festival…. but, wait.
The headstone reads: Mary A., wife of John Brown of Harpers Ferry. She married the militant abolitionist in Pennsylvania in 1832, raising five children of his first wife and bearing thirteen of her own, of whom six survived to adulthood. Her sons Watson and Oliver died in John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859....
Apr 26, 2024 · The Brown family, with Brown’s second wife Mary Ann Day who bore him 13 children, moved to North Elba in 1849. They were renters at first and then purchased a 244-acre farm.
Jun 12, 2006 · Brown’s execution also threw his large family into turmoil. He left behind a total of eight children, four by his widow Mary Ann Day Brown: Salmon, Annie, Sarah and Ellen; and four by his first wife, Dianthe Lusk: John Jr., Jason, Owen and Ruth.
Feb 25, 2023 · Mary Ann Day Brown (1816-1884) was the wife of abolitionist John Brown and a conductor on the Underground Railroad. She raised 5 stepchildren and 13 biological children with Brown, managing the family while he was away. After Brown's execution, she became a California pioneer.
Mary Ann Day Brown. Place of Birth. Washington County, NY. Burial Place. Madronia Cemetery, Saratoga, CA. Birth Date Certainty. Exact. Death Date Certainty. Exact. Gender. Female. Race. White. Sectional choice. North. Origins. Free State. Family. Charles Day (father), John Brown (husband) Relation to Slavery. White non-slaveholder.
Mary Ann Day, 1816-1884, born in New York, was the daughter of Charles and Mary Day. The family moved to Crawford County, Pennsylvania, when Mary Ann was a young girl. She married John Brown, a widower twice her age, on July 11, 1833.
