Miranda Brown ¹

   FamilySearch ID: LJ5K-PCP.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1850 in Shawnee Township, Fountain, IN. ² The 1850 census recorded Jacob Brown, farmer, 39, living with wife Susannah, 38; Noah, 12; Christina, 11; Malinda, 7; and Maranda, 4. Everyone was born in Indiana except Jacob in Pennsylvania. Jacob's real estate was valued at $2500.
His neighbor was brother John Brown, farmer, 49, with his wife Catharine, 45; daughters Catherine, 17; Virline, 16; Eliza, 14; Nancy E. 12; Mahala, 10; and son Solomon, 8. John and Catharine were born in Pennsylvania and their children in Iowa.

2. Census in 1860 in Shawnee Township, Fountain, IN. ³ The 1860 census recorded Jacob Brown, 49, born in Pennsylvania, living with his family all born in Indiana: wife Susana, 48; Malinda, 17; and Maranda, 14. Jacob's real estate is valued at $7260 and personal estate $2000. The post office is Robroy & Portland. A neighbor is Jacob's brother, William Brown, farmer, 45, with his family.

3. Census in 1870 in Grant Township, Vermillion, IL. ⁴ The 1870 census recorded George W. Dove, farmer, 25, living with wife Meranda, 24; Udora, 2; and Eveline, 9 months, born Sep 1869. George's real estate was valued at $7200 and person estate $5519. Everyone was born in Indiana except Eveline in Illinois. Next door is John Dove, 26, with his family.

4. Census in 1900 in Hoopeston, Vermilion, IL. ⁵ The 1900 census recorded owning a home on East Penn Street: Miranda Dove, widowed, 54, born May 1846, living with her son, George B., attorney, 23, Sep 1886. He was born in Illinois and his parents in Indiana. Miranda was born in Indiana, her father in Pennsylvania and mother in North Carolina. The census records she had birthed 3 children by 1900, all alive that year.

Miranda married George Washington Dove on 12 Mar 1867 in , Fountain, IN. (George Washington Dove was born in 1846 in , , IN, died on 12 Mar 1891 in Hoopeston, Vermilion, IL ⁶ and was buried in Lovejoy Township: Floral Hill Cemetery, Iroquois, IL ⁶.)