Mary Ellen BREWER

• General Notes
  • aka Eleanor
    
    b. St. Mary's Cty, MD (alt. 15 Mar)
    removed MD > KY shortly before marriage?  (see son Benedict's bio)
    m. Bardstown, Washington Cty, KY 13 Jun 1811 to John Evan WADE
    removed to Lawrence Cty., IN 1820
    removed to Daviess Cty., IN 1837
    d. Daviess Cty, IN
    buried St. Peter's Cemetery, Montgomery, IN
    
    burial record:
    Wade, Evan, d. Dec. 16, 1865, Age 72y. 4m. 27d., [Section] C [thus b. 20 Jul 1793]
    cf. following record:  Wade, Ellen, d. Feb. 7, 1865, Age 74 y., 11m. 21d. [thus b. 14 Feb 1790], Wife of Evan Wade, [Section] C
    no other WADE burials in St. Peter's
    
    source:  Cemeteries of Daviess County, Indiana compiled 1988-1990, vol. III, pg. 169, accessed 7/06 at Carnegie Public Library, 300 W. Main St., Washington, IN
    
    Mary Ann Wade:  "Eleanor Brewer was born in St Mary's County, Maryland on March 15, 1790.  Her father now known to have been James Brewer and her mother Mary Yate.  She descended from a Brewer family, all Catholic, who came from St. Mary's County in Maryland.  Her mother (Mary Yates) and Eleanor went to Holland.  Family tradition says that she went to school in Holland, and taught in a cooking school there.  Eleanor returned to Maryland, then came to Kentucky at about the age of 22, where she met and married John Evan.  She  died on February 17, 1865 in Daviess County, Indiana at age 74."
    
    Joe Scott (JandJScott@aol.com) gives Mary Ellen's parents as James BREWER and Mary YATES
    
    from husb's bio:  BENEDICT J. WADE (...) was the fourth of a family of ten children born to Evan and Ellen (Brewer) Wade.  Evan was the grandson of one of the four brothers.  He was born in Kentucky in 1793, and in 1820 came to Lawrence County, Ind., where he resided until 1837, when he moved to Daviess County, where he spent the remainder of his days.  (...) He was a member of the Catholic Church (...)  He was one of the early pioneers and died in 1865.  The mother was a native of Maryland and when twenty-two years old moved to Kentucky.  She was born in 1790 and died in 1864.  She had three brothers who came to Daviess County, Ind., and one yet lives in Barr Township [see note below].  The Brewer family came from Belgium to this country in the same vessel with Lord Baltimore. (etc., see Benedict's record) (closest match for an Ark/Dove passenger is Mathew Burrowes)
    
    source:
    History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana : from the earliest time to the present, with biographical sketches, reminiscences, notes, etc., together with an extended history of the colonial days of Vincennes, and its progress down to the formation of the state government.. Chicago. Goodspeed Pub. Co.. 1886, p. 891-2.
    
    Note on Mary Ellen's three brothers:  Only likely suspect for Mary Ellen's brother living in Daviess in 1886 is Samuel BREWER, who appears in 1880 census; other BREWERS who passed through Daviess were Mark (b. 1800 MD, residing in Daviess in 1840, 1850) and Geo (b. est. 1800-1810, residing in Daviess in 1840).
    
    Mary Ann Wade:  The Goodspeed History of Knox and Daviess County, Indiana mentions "three brothers of Eleanor Brewer settled in Daviess County, Indiana."  Land Office Records show that the following "took up" land there at an early date."
    George Brewer   11/29/1833
    Mark Brewer         6/13/1836
    
    marriage record:
    Kentucky Marriages to 1850
    Brewer, Eleanor Wade, John E. 13 Jun 1811 Kentucky
    Washington County
    
    Note (brother/sister-in-law) George/Ann BREWER 58/53 MD/KY in Barr, Daviess in 1860; that h/hold includes a Stephen WALKER (grandson by dtr Matilda Brewer Walker).  Same h/hold in Barr, Daviess in 1850 w/9 children, eldest James b KY est 1828, rest incl George (Jr.), all b. IN.
    
    Kentucky Marriages to 1850:
    
    Brewer, Eleanor Wade, John E. 13 Jun 1811 Kentucky
    Washington County

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