{"id":256,"date":"2011-12-21T20:45:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T20:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasqualefamily.net\/web\/?page_id=256"},"modified":"2022-03-08T11:04:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:04:27","slug":"roy-j-brown-1902-1956","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.pasqualefamily.net\/web\/brown\/roy-j-brown-1902-1956","title":{"rendered":"Roy J. Brown 1902 MS – 1956 MS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The photograph, above, is the Roy & Ivy (Mark) Brown family in NY. Date unknown.<\/span><\/p>\n

Roy Jessie Brown was born 8 March 1902 in Pike County, Mississippi<\/a> [son of Jasper Pascal Brown<\/a> & Rose Ella Brumfield<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Roy was one of 9 children of Jasper Pascal Brown & Rose Ella Brumfield. He was born in Osyka, Pike, MS. In 1910 his father was a farmer on a \u2018home farm.\u2019 \u00a0 In 1920 Jasper, Rose and children were in the Simmonsville Precinct of Pike Co., MS. Jasper owned his farm. Four children were still living at home.<\/p>\n

Roy\u2019s first wife was Mary Thelma Ellzey, daughter of William S. Ellzey & Amanda Adarene Fortenberry. \u00a0They had a daughter. Roy left MS and headed north to OH.\u00a0On 2 August 1927, in Medina County, Ohio<\/a>, he married Ivy Regina Mark<\/a> [daughter of Thomas Kenneth Mark<\/a> & N. Regina Gruissy<\/a>]. Roy & Ivy had seven children.\u00a0In 1941 Roy moved his family to Columbia Co., NY where he worked for two mills.\u00a0Roy died 12 May 1956 in Magnolia, Pike County, Mississippi.<\/p>\n

A newspaper clipping from a newspaper in Hudson, New York has an obituary for Roy:<\/p>\n

\u201cRoy J. Brown, formerly of Stockport, died Friday in Tylertown, Miss., where he had been spending the winter with relatives. The funeral was held there Monday with interment in Tylertown. Mr. Brown, 54, was a native of Tylertown. He had been a resident of Stockport since 1941 and had been employed at both the Stockport paper mill and Bonafide Mills. He was a member of the Stockport Fire Department. Survivors include his wife, who resides in Cobleskill; five sons, Delbert of Germantown, Leo of Schenectady, Larry of the United States Army, Robert and William of Cobleskill; two daughters, Mrs. Carlton Wieland of Hagman and Mrs. Elmer\u00a0 Sparks of Cobleskill; four grandchildren; several brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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