John Brown's army headquarters in the summer of 1859, Annie Brown (16) and Oliver's
wife Martha (17) kept house and served as lookouts.  


The Fablinger family were teachers
as well as orchardists.  Mary
Fablinger (who died in 1964), the
granddaughter of John and Mary
Brown, gave the family collection to
historian Florence Cunningham of
Saratoga, California.

Mrs. Cunningham in turn willed it
to the Saratoga Museum.



Annie Brown Adams' grave is
recently restored by her
granddaughter, Alice Cook Hunt,
of Portland, Oregon

Annie rests at the Old Pioneer
Cemetery in Rohnerville, California
                                                              
                                                      
                       
               
                                                              Annie and her brothers Oliver and Watson, killed at Harpers Ferry in 1859.          
                                                                       Thomas Featherstonhaugh, "The Final Burial of the Followers of John Brown."    
  New England Magazine, 4/1901
             

                                                   


            Exhibit of Brown family artifacts at the Saratoga Historical Museum during March, 2009.  
                                  The photo projection portraits were created by Sarah Brown in charcoal and
           pencil.  The image of John Brown is by M. M. Lawrence.
           The portrait of Mary Brown is by Isaiah Taber of San
           Francisco, ca. 1874.   Consequently, Sarah is portraying
           her parents at the same age -- fifty-eight.






                                                 
















graves of Ruth
and Henry
Thompson in
Pasadena.  photo by
Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz,
March 2007.





















Sarah and Ellen
are buried next to
their mother.   The
property of Ellen
and James
Fablinger is now
the Civic Center
of the City of  
Saratoga,  

It was acquired in
1957 from John
and Mary Brown's
granddaughter
Mary Fablinger,
who was in a
nursing home.
Alice Keesey Mecoy
Alice's blog John Brown Kin

A family reunion at the cabin of Owen Brown in Altadena, California, ca. 1888.            Jean Libby's opinion:

The names of the three brothers, sons of John Brown and his first wife Dianthe Lusk (died in 1832) on the print.
 It is possible that Ruth Brown Thompson is second woman from left.  I believe  that Annie and Sam Adams are
the couple on the far left; Ellen Brown Fablinger is the woman on the far right.  .  

Photo courtesy Society of California Archivists
On Moving Owen Brown's grave to North Elba

American history is full of stories about the movement
and scattering of family members. Gravesites show us
the routes taken by our ancestors as their lives flowed
and ebbed with the changing times. By moving Owen, we
would disrupt the profound impact he, and others like
him, had on the world as they moved through their lives.

My answer is no, please do not move Owen Brown from
the resting place he himself chose.
           
Alice Keesey Mecoy
Great great grand niece of Owen Brown
June 2011
                         John Brown Family Album

          Descendants of Dianthe and Mary in California  
James Fablinger and Ellen Brown
engagement photos, 1876.  
Ellen as a child, ca. 1863.  
courtesy Saratoga History Museum
Mary Brown exhibition                          Mary and Her Daughters: a legacy of equality and cooperation in Santa Clara County 1880 - 1920

                                                                                                                                    Documentary Project


Saratoga, California
Annie Brown Adams'
obituaries

researched and published
by Alice Keesey Mecoy

October 2011