Photo #48798
Last Name: Brown
First Name: Catherine
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Subject's State: UT
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Date: 1851-1900
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Nee: Slawson
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Comments: Catherine Brown (Nee: Slawson) | UT | 1851-1900 | Comments: Quoting: Daughters of Utah Pioneers: Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude pg 60 and 61. "Catherine Slawson was born in New York, 1806. She married Ezekiel Brown in Erie, Pennsylvania, 1825. They were the parents of seven children. He died November 10, 1848. At the time of Ezekiel's death, they had been investigating the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Catherine was baptized in 1850, and five years later she left Pennsylvania with six children and two grandchildren to gather with the Saints in the Salt Lake Valley. They arrived August 18, 1856, with the P.C. Merrill Company. On September 11, 1857, Catherine and Ira Ames were married in the Edowment House. She was his fifth wife. They had no children but raised an adopted son, Meridith Fisk, who sometimes used the name "Ames." Catherine was a quiet, refined person, with a good education. She had beautiful handwriting, was a good seamstress, and made lovely bedspreads, rugs and fine linens. Catherine passed away November 21, 1895, in Trenton, Cache Valley, Utah at the age of eighty-nine years."
Catherine's parents were Peter Slawson and Lucy Hinckley. She was the 3rd of 6 children.
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