MAURY COUNTY, TN - COURT - Obit Abstract for Jane Gillespie Brown
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Obituary Abstract for Jane Gillespie Brown               Maury Co., TN
                                
Obituary abstracted in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 55, 
No. 1, March, 1967 from The National Intelligencier, 28 June, 1831:

Jane Brown died in Maury Co., Tenn., June 3, in the 91st year of her age.  
She was born June 22, 1740.  Her husband James Brown was murdered by the 
Cherokee Indians, May 9, 1788, and she and 5 children made prisoners.  Her 
husband, in company with Colonels John and Daniel Gillespie, her brothers, 
led a company of soldiers at the Battle of Guilford Court House, during the 
Revolution.  In 1792 she settled with her son, Col. Joseph Brown, near Nashville, 
Tennessee.