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Subject: BROWN, Mary Narcissa 182?, Murfeesboro, TN
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 00:34:55 EST

My great-greatgrandmother was Mary Narcissa (Brown)(Dimick) Bradford. She was
known as Narcissa Brown (or "Cis") to her friends and acquaintances, which
were numerous. I have nearly three dozen "calling cards" from the 1840's,
many of them invitations from prospective suitors, which depict an active
social life. Two of them are from A.V. Brown, listed as "Governor" in the
1847 Announcement of Nashville University's Commencement Ball. After buying
Madison Station from Anthony W. Johnson in November 1854 (I have a draft of
the deed.) her social contacts centered around the Plantation (a 126-acre
tract 5.5 miles north of downtown 1854 Nashville along the Gallatin Pike).
Narcissa and her friends were active in Presbyterian and Methodist ministries
in the South from the 1850s through 1890s and also had possible Masonic
connections. She had a brother, Robert, a Major in the Confederate Army who
was reputedly decorated personally by Jefferson Davis. I have a series of
thirty letters, dating from 1828 through 1894 from various family members and
friends, which connect Narcissa Brown to the Richardsons of
Murfeesboro/Nashville and the Watsons of Murfeesboro and East Windsor, VT.

I would appreciate information to extend these branches of my family tree.
Thanks much.

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