Aubra Lee Brown

Name	Aubra Lee Brown^{51, ED 74, SD 8, Sheet 20-A, dwelling 346, family 348,50, ED 53, SD 91, Sheet 2-A, dwelling 5, family 6}
Birth	7 April 1894, Waco, Cleveland Co, NC^{13,51, ED 74, SD 8, Sheet 20-A, dwelling 346, family 348,379}
Death	26 May 1976, Cherryville, Gaston Co, NC³⁷⁹
Burial	Cherryville, Gaston Co, NC³⁷⁹, Cherryville City Cemetery
Occupation	school teacher^{80, ED 74, SD 9, Sheet 18-B; dwelling 278, family 291}
Father	William Monroe Brown (1869-1951)
Mother	Mary Jane Hartgrove (1864-1907)

Spouses

1	Ernest Sloan Sellers^{52, Twp No 5, Warlick Precinct; ED 54, SD 8, Sheet 4-B, dwelling 55, family 55}
Birth	12 January 1894, No. 5 Twp, Cleveland Co, NC^288,378
Death	1 February 1996, Cherryville, Gaston Co, NC³⁷⁸
Burial	3 February 1996, Cherryville, Gaston Co, NC³⁷⁸, Cherryville City Cemetery
Father	Thomas Filetus Sellers (1871-1946)
Mother	Cora Etta Black (1871-1954)

Marriage

26 June 1919, Cherryville, Gaston Co, NC^{285, Ed 36-6, SD
7, Sheet 19-B, dwelling 315, family
322}

Children	Martha Sue (Private)
	Nell Ernestine (1922-1961)
	Eric Sloan (1928-1993)
	Barbara Janette (Private)

Notes for Aubra Lee Brown

Aubra's mother died in childbirth when Aubra was thirteen. She and her three younger brothers (including Bill, the newborn) went to live with their grandparents and her aunts Clemmie and Emma.^{50, ED 53, SD 91, Sheet 2-A, dwelling
5, family 6} It was believed their father could not care for them, being both deaf and a man. In actuality Aubra did all the work.

Clemmie and Grandma Susan were opposed to her going to college and eventually marrying because she was free "help". I'm sure they only accepted her teaching school because it brought some money in, but it resulted in her meeting and marrying Ernest. The custom at the time was for the families of schoolchildren to give room and board to teachers a week or two at a time. Ernest was the oldest of twelve, and was still living at home when Aubra came to stay. Because of Clemmie and Susan's opposition they decided to elope. She had bought a new hat to get married in but Clemmie found it and asked to borrow it. Rather than risk discovery, Aubra consented and as a result she was married in no hat at all.

See more on the Brown family, including a picture of Aubra as a child; and more on the Sellers family, for a picture of her children.


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