Mollie F. Brown's Photo Album

  ©  Kathy Duncan, 2023

A few months ago, I was contacted by Jim McCabe, who had read my blog post that connected Squire Brown and Isaac S. Brown as brothers. Jim had a family photo album that was kept by a young woman named Mollie F. Brown who was a daughter of James A. and Margaret (Ryan/Rian) Brown of Scott County, Illinois. Mollie's album was unusual in that it contained many identified photographs, but Jim was trying to positively identify who those people were and how they might be connected to James A. Brown.

One photograph was of "Uncle Squire Brown" of Alton, Illinois:

A photograph of "cousin Joe Brown," who was the son of Squire Brown:

One of "Aunt Kate" Brown. Aunt Kate would be Catherine E. (Hay) Brown, wife of Isaac S. Brown of Pike County, Illinois:

A photograph of "Cousin Hank E. Brown, Milton, IL." This is a photograph of Henry E. Brown, a son of Catherine E. (Hay) and Isaac S. Brown of Pike County, Illinois:

A photograph of "cousin Clara Grimes." Clara Grimes was the daughter of Ellen Elizabeth (Brown) and Eli Cox Grimes. Clara was also the granddaughter of Catherine E. (Hay) and Issac S. Brown:

A photograph of "cousin Katie Grimes." Catherine Grimes was Clara's sister:

A photograph of "Uncle William Brown" of Woodville, IL. I believe that this was William Brown of Woodville Twp in Greene County, Illinois rather than Woodville, Illinois:

My interpretation is that in order for Mollie to be related to these Browns in the way that the photographs are labeled, her father James A. Brown would be a brother to Squire Brown of Upper Alton, Madison County, Illinois; Isaac S. Brown of Milton, Pike County, Illinois; and William Brown of Woodville Twp, Greene County, Illinois. 

There are other photographs in Mollie's album that need to be identified. 

This was the most exciting genealogy "discovery" of the summer of 2023. I never thought that I would ever see a photograph of Catherine E. (Hay) Brown.