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Birth:          25 Jul 1854 Cape Girardeau Co., Mo.
Death:          28 Oct 1939 Carthage, Jasper Co., Mo.
Burial:         Park Cemetery, Carthage, Jasper Co., Mo.

Notes
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w/o Judge Edmond Orlando Brown.

Birth: 1st of three known, of the eight reported children in Cape Girardeau county, 
Missouri

Census: 1860, age 6, Bole township, Franklin county, Missouri with parents, her 
namesake aunt, & one sibling.

Census: 1870, age 16 Saint Louis, Saint Louis county, Missouri with parents, one 
sibling & one hundred and sixty-three roomers in parents hotel.

In October, 1872, before she moved here it had nine doctors and sixteen attorneys 
had offices in Carthage the she arrived in Carthage, Missouri with family about 1874, 
at around age 20.

Census: 1880, age 25 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with husband & only 
daughter, on south Garrison avenue and the number had increased to nineteen 
doctors and twenty-three attorneys. 

Census: 1900, age 45 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with husband at 403(old), 
later 603(new) south Garrison avenue, where now stands the Colonial Apartment 
complex built by B & G Construction Company in 1948. The ornamental tile from around 
front of her fireplace was salvaged and used in construction of fireplace at 615 Euclid 
boulevard with much of the old lumber also used in the modern construction of Albert J 
Graul's Main street and the Luke J Boggess' Euclid boulevard homes during 1950s.

Her widowed mother moved in sometime following the 1910 Federal census however, 
after husband's demise. Both husband and father are found with headstones but 
neither she nor her mother have one.

~ She was civilly active and had on 27 JULY 1935, related her recollections in an 
article, published in the Carthage Press concerning 1874 Carthage at time she arrived, 
referencing a lake at southwest corner of the Carthage's public square, which 
included The Banner building on south Main operated then by Major Alonzo F Lewis. 
In pre-Civil War days the southwest corner had what masqueraded as a grocery store, 
Lee H Chrisman's salon, then, one of the better salons in town with ex two term 
Sheriff, Norris Hood's log house north, on the west side of square.

It read:

AN EARLY CARTHAGE LAKE
Mrs. E. O. Brown Tells of "Beauty Spot" Southwest of Square
The reference by Mrs. E. O. Brown to a lake just southwest of the square in the early 
days of Carthage, in telling yesterday about the Jerry Casey bakery, prompts Mrs. 
Brown to tell something more about that lake as she recalls it when she arrived here 
with her father, I. F. Garner and family in 1874.
"The Carthage square was on a bluff," she says, "rising to its highest point at the 
southwest corner, and there was a sharp drop to the lake level. Most of the area 
between Main, Fourth, Lyon and Fifth streets was covered by the lake, which was 
quite deep. It was fed by several springs. The water was clear and was deep enough 
to swim in. It was full of growing cress and was a popular resort for boys of the 
neighborhood. Ed Gerkey, then a 4 year old tot, delighted to wade in its edges and 
drew frequent reprimands for her temerity. 
"The Gerkey home stood on the corner of Fourth and Lyon streets, the present site of 
the Springer building. Just south was the Spangler residence and next to that was the 
Dr. Brooks home at the corner of Lyon and Fifth. Lombardy poplars bordered Lyon 
street and enhanced the attractiveness of the lake, which was considered a real 
beauty spot.
"The only building in the lake area was the structure occupied by the Carthage Daily 
Banner, facing Main street, [at 407 south Main] on part of the site of the present B & L 
building. It stood on piles 10 feet high to put it above the water and to the street 
level.
"At the southwest corner of the square where the College Pharmacy now stands the 
drop to the lake level was probably 20 feet. In later years when R. Roessler and his 
sons, Julius and Ed built the brick building now occupied by the College Pharmacy, 
the workmen excavated deep and laid drain tile to carry off the water from the 
principal spring that fed the lake.
"The water was carried to an open ditch that is now a walled-in storm sewer on West 
Fourth street. As other buildings were erected, the lake was drained and the hollow 
filled to bring it to the street level."

This article was also the subject of Carthage's Jo Ellis in her 2013 article published in 
the Joplin Globe newspaper.

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Death: in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri at McCune-Brooks hospital from 
complications of an intestinal obstruction, at age 85 years. Arrangements were cared 
for by the Knell Funeral Home with burial in the Garner/Brown family lot of Park 
Cemetery next to her husband.

The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates 
online website.

The informant was her daughter "Lulie" (Brown) Stebbins of Los Angeles, California.
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CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1939 - PAGE FOUR

DEATH OF MRS. E. O. BROWN

HAD BEEN CARTHAGE RESIDENT 66 YEARS

Funeral Services Conducted This Afternoon By the Rev. J. E. Alexander at Knell 
Service Home

Mrs. E. O. Brown, 85, well known Carthage woman, passed away at 4:50 o'clock 
Saturday afternoon at McCune-Brooks Hospital where she had been a patient several 
weeks. She was quite ill for a time before being removed from her home, 603 South 
Garrison Avenue [formerly 403], to the hospital.
Mrs. Brown had been a resident of Carthage about 66 years. Her father, Isaac Forbes 
Garner, came here with his family from St. Louis, where Mr. Garner had been engaged 
for a time in the hotel business. After moving here he was engaged in the manufacture 
of brick. He opened three of Carthage's principal industries. He opened the first stone 
quarry in this vicinity and erected the first stone dressing plant here and was a pioneer 
in the lime manufacturing business in Carthage. His company was known as the 
Carthage Marble and White Lime Company. 
The daughter, Cynthia Angeline Garner was born July 25, 1854 in Cape Girardeau 
county, Missouri, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Garner, before they moved to St. 
Louis. She was married here on October 26, 1875 to Judge Edmund O. Brown, a 
native of New York state, who came to Missouri after being admitted to the bar in 
1870 in New York. Mr. Brown practiced law for two years in Lamar. He was appointed 
judge of the court of common pleas in January, 1874 to fill the vacancy caused by the 
resignation of Judge Picher and in the following election he was elected to the same 
office and served four years, after which he formed a partnership with the late William 
H. Phelps. This firm stood among the foremost in southwest Missouri. Judge Brown 
died in 1908.
Mrs. Brown lived in the same location, 603 South Garrison [old address 403], since 
coming to Carthage with her parents. The Garner home burned and Judge Brown 
purchased the place from his father-in-law and rebuilt the house where Mrs. Brown 
had lived since.
The Garner family was among the 31 charter members of the Methodist Episcopal 
church, South, when it was organized in 1877. Prior to the Civil War the church had 
an organization here, embraced in a circuit, but this was broken up, the membership 
scattered and the records lost, during the war. Mrs. Brown had continued active in the 
church and its organization throughout the years.
Mrs. Brown was among those who were honor guests at the annual birthday party 
given by the Sunshine Society for persons 80 or more.
Members of the King's Daughters society, of which she was a member, and the 
Howard Street Methodist church, also had given parties honoring Mrs. Brown on her 
birthday anniversary for several years.
Mrs. Brown always was interest in all civic affairs of Carthage. It gave her much 
pleasure to decorate her large yard with flags, flowers and other ornaments on special 
occasions, such as Armistice day, July 4, and other special days.
She was quite prominent in Democratic politics here for many years and was one of 
the several who made addresses at the meeting held late this summer in Central Park 
when the Allen McReynolds for Governor club was organized here.
Surviving Mrs. Brown are a daughter, Mrs. Lucille Stebbins of Los Angeles, CA. and a 
brother, Robert W. Garner of Anderson. Both have been here with Mrs. Brown for 
sometime.
Funeral services were conducted at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the Knell service 
home, with the Rev. J. E. Alexander, pastor of the Howard Street church in charge. 
Mrs. Marian Wright Powers sang "I Love to Tell the Old, Old Story." Mrs. John Carter 
played the accompaniments. Burial was in Park Cemetery. 

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Father: Isaac Forbes Garner b: 9 SEP 1832 Arkansas Territory.
Mother: Patience Emaline Best b: 24 DEC 1828 Madison county, Missouri.

Marriage: Edmond Orlando Brown b: 1 NOV 1847 Hinsdale, Cattaraugus county, New 
York.
Married: 26 OCT 1875 Jasper county, Missouri.
Known Child
 Lucille "Lulie" Brown b: 14 MAY 1879 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.
1910 in Carthage, Jasper Co., Mo. 1 ch, 1 alive

Parents
GARNER Isaac Forbes ()
BEST Patience Emaline ()

Siblings
GARNER Cynthia Angeline (25 Jul 1854 - 28 Oct 1939)

Marriage To BROWN Edmond Orlando (1 Nov 1847 - 8 Dec 1907)
    m. 25 Oct 1876 Jasper Co., Mo.

Notes

Parents
BROWN [BROWNE] Morris Niles (3 Jan 1820 - 22 Apr 1869)
SLAFTER Amanda Melvina (4 Dec 1821 - 1913)

Children by BROWN Edmond Orlando 1 Nov 1847 - 8 Dec 1907
BROWN Lucille ("Lulie") (14 May 1879 - 29 Apr 1960)

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