Brown, Elizabeth (1819 - 1892) - female
b. 9 SEP 1819 in Chenango County, NY
d. 15 DEC 1892 in Mount Pleasant, MI
father: Brown, George
mother:
�, Pamelia
From "Portrait and Biographical Album of Isabella County", ChapmanBrothers, Chicago, 1884: Mrs. Elizabeth Hursh, widow of John M. Hursh,one of the first settlers of the county, is a daughter of George andPamelia Brown, and was born in Rose Township, Wayne Co., N.Y., Sept. 9,1819. She was reared on a farm, and married in the same township, March22, 1837. Of her 11 children six were born in New York State, and fivein Union Township. Harriet E. is the wife of Ezra Stringer, a farmer ofthis county; George H. is now in Saginaw County; John D. is a hotelkeeper at Loomis, Isabella County; Helen J. is the wife of Wesley Winter,a farmer of Deerfield Township, this county; Alonzo is a farmer atLoomis; Amy is the wife of Wallace Mason, of Coleman; Isabella (the firstgirl born in the county, 1853) is the wife of William Dodds, a farmer ofMecosta County; Adelaide is the wife of Angus Walker, a farmer of thiscounty; Emily, Franklin and Julian E. are at home. The family came tothis county in 1853, and bough 80 acres on section 22 of what is nowUnion Township, at the rate of a dollar an acre. They drove fromMarshall, Calhoun County, and cut their own road for the last ten miles.They raised a log house, without lumber for doors, floor, window, orglass or other necessity in the construction of a comfortable residence.They cleared all this farm, and made a nice home. Mr Hursh hadfrequently to carry his provisions from Saginaw, at one time transporting100 pounds. At the time of his death (Thanksgiving Day, 1877), Mr. H.was keeping the Hursh House at Loomis. He kept hotel there for fouryears, and was previously for a number of years extensively engaged inlumbering. About 1871, he bought a house and two lots on Church Street,Mt. Pleasant, which Mrs. H. now makes her home. She also has a claim toa quantity of land in this county, at present the subject of litigation.
Obituary from Mount Pleasant (MI) Northwest Tribune, 12/16/1892, page 1,column 3:
One of the first settlers of the city of Mt. Pleasant and Isabella countyhas gone. Mrs. Elizabeth Hursh died at her home in this city Dec. 15.Mrs. Hursh came to this county in February, 1855, settling on the farmnow occupied by the Normal school grounds. The funeral will take placeon Sunday, the 18th at one o'clock p.m. She was the mother of George, S.A., John, Robert, and Frank Hursh, Mrs. E. C. Stringer and Mrs. F. D.Jenner.
