Called "Aunt Viney" by some family members
1840 Carroll Co., AR Census Index has Josephus Brown on page 051 Osage Twn, 1 male 20-30, 1 female 15-20 (Eliza) Living 4 houses down was Joel Hampton (Notice that El Vina is not in the 1840 census, evidently not yet born as her headstone says 1839, 1850 census show her to be 9, so most likely born in 1840 or 1841.
Listed in 1870 with her father (Joseph)53 TN in Sebastian Co, AR as Alvina age 30 born MO deaf and dumb, Eliza 14 AR, Charles 10 AR. (Eliza & Charles are children by Josephus's second wife). Elvina's son Charles is not listed, leading to believe he was born later than the 1869 thought, below 1880 census also show him to be younger also.
1880 Census > Missouri > Stone > James > District 122 , living with Thomas Brown her brother. Notice her son Charles was listed as age 5
Melvina BROWN sister F S 42 AR
Occ: Laborer Fa: AR Mo: AR
Charles BROWN Son M S 5 AR
Fa: AR Mo: AR
Father: Josephus Brown b. abt 1818 MO or AR. d. aft 1870.
Mother: Eliza Hampton b. MO d. bef 1860
Buried close to her brother Thomas Marion Brown.
El Vina was sent to a school for the deaf at one time, but cried so much they brought her home. The 1st school for the deaf opened in Clarksville, Johnson Co in 1850 by Augustus Ward, and was the first to be established west of the Mississippi River. In 1860, Asa Clark organized a second school for the deaf in her home in Fort Smith. Matthew Clark, a graduate of the New York Institute for the Deaf-Mute, was the instructor. (Could Josephus have sent El Vina to Clarksville about 1850, it wasn't very far, she would have been about 11 and if she attended in Fort Smith later in 1860 she would have been about 21. Maybe that's why they came back to AR from MO?
1840 Carroll Co., AR Census Index has Josephus Brown on page 051 Osage Twn, 1 male 20-30, 1 female 15-20 (Eliza) Living 4 houses down was Joel Hampton (Notice that El Vina is not in the 1840 census, evidently not yet born as her headstone says 1839, 1850 census show her to be 9, so most likely born in 1840 or 1841.
Listed in 1870 with her father (Joseph)53 TN in Sebastian Co, AR as Alvina age 30 born MO deaf and dumb, Eliza 14 AR, Charles 10 AR. (Eliza & Charles are children by Josephus's second wife). Elvina's son Charles is not listed, leading to believe he was born later than the 1869 thought, below 1880 census also show him to be younger also.
1880 Census > Missouri > Stone > James > District 122 , living with Thomas Brown her brother. Notice her son Charles was listed as age 5
Melvina BROWN sister F S 42 AR
Occ: Laborer Fa: AR Mo: AR
Charles BROWN Son M S 5 AR
Fa: AR Mo: AR
Father: Josephus Brown b. abt 1818 MO or AR. d. aft 1870.
Mother: Eliza Hampton b. MO d. bef 1860
Buried close to her brother Thomas Marion Brown.
El Vina was sent to a school for the deaf at one time, but cried so much they brought her home. The 1st school for the deaf opened in Clarksville, Johnson Co in 1850 by Augustus Ward, and was the first to be established west of the Mississippi River. In 1860, Asa Clark organized a second school for the deaf in her home in Fort Smith. Matthew Clark, a graduate of the New York Institute for the Deaf-Mute, was the instructor. (Could Josephus have sent El Vina to Clarksville about 1850, it wasn't very far, she would have been about 11 and if she attended in Fort Smith later in 1860 she would have been about 21. Maybe that's why they came back to AR from MO?
Called "Aunt Viney" by some family members
1840 Carroll Co., AR Census Index has Josephus Brown on page 051 Osage Twn, 1 male 20-30, 1 female 15-20 (Eliza) Living 4 houses down was Joel Hampton (Notice that El Vina is not in the 1840 census, evidently not yet born as her headstone says 1839, 1850 census show her to be 9, so most likely born in 1840 or 1841.
Listed in 1870 with her father (Joseph)53 TN in Sebastian Co, AR as Alvina age 30 born MO deaf and dumb, Eliza 14 AR, Charles 10 AR. (Eliza & Charles are children by Josephus's second wife). Elvina's son Charles is not listed, leading to believe he was born later than the 1869 thought, below 1880 census also show him to be younger also.
1880 Census > Missouri > Stone > James > District 122 , living with Thomas Brown her brother. Notice her son Charles was listed as age 5
Melvina BROWN sister F S 42 AR
Occ: Laborer Fa: AR Mo: AR
Charles BROWN Son M S 5 AR
Fa: AR Mo: AR
Father: Josephus Brown b. abt 1818 MO or AR. d. aft 1870.
Mother: Eliza Hampton b. MO d. bef 1860
Buried close to her brother Thomas Marion Brown.
El Vina was sent to a school for the deaf at one time, but cried so much they brought her home. The 1st school for the deaf opened in Clarksville, Johnson Co in 1850 by Augustus Ward, and was the first to be established west of the Mississippi River. In 1860, Asa Clark organized a second school for the deaf in her home in Fort Smith. Matthew Clark, a graduate of the New York Institute for the Deaf-Mute, was the instructor. (Could Josephus have sent El Vina to Clarksville about 1850, it wasn't very far, she would have been about 11 and if she attended in Fort Smith later in 1860 she would have been about 21. Maybe that's why they came back to AR from MO?
1840 Carroll Co., AR Census Index has Josephus Brown on page 051 Osage Twn, 1 male 20-30, 1 female 15-20 (Eliza) Living 4 houses down was Joel Hampton (Notice that El Vina is not in the 1840 census, evidently not yet born as her headstone says 1839, 1850 census show her to be 9, so most likely born in 1840 or 1841.
Listed in 1870 with her father (Joseph)53 TN in Sebastian Co, AR as Alvina age 30 born MO deaf and dumb, Eliza 14 AR, Charles 10 AR. (Eliza & Charles are children by Josephus's second wife). Elvina's son Charles is not listed, leading to believe he was born later than the 1869 thought, below 1880 census also show him to be younger also.
1880 Census > Missouri > Stone > James > District 122 , living with Thomas Brown her brother. Notice her son Charles was listed as age 5
Melvina BROWN sister F S 42 AR
Occ: Laborer Fa: AR Mo: AR
Charles BROWN Son M S 5 AR
Fa: AR Mo: AR
Father: Josephus Brown b. abt 1818 MO or AR. d. aft 1870.
Mother: Eliza Hampton b. MO d. bef 1860
Buried close to her brother Thomas Marion Brown.
El Vina was sent to a school for the deaf at one time, but cried so much they brought her home. The 1st school for the deaf opened in Clarksville, Johnson Co in 1850 by Augustus Ward, and was the first to be established west of the Mississippi River. In 1860, Asa Clark organized a second school for the deaf in her home in Fort Smith. Matthew Clark, a graduate of the New York Institute for the Deaf-Mute, was the instructor. (Could Josephus have sent El Vina to Clarksville about 1850, it wasn't very far, she would have been about 11 and if she attended in Fort Smith later in 1860 she would have been about 21. Maybe that's why they came back to AR from MO?
