Mae Ella Bawden

BAWDEN, ANGEL, ROBINSON, BROWN

Posted By: Carol Bawden (email)
Date: 4/3/2007 at 13:50:05

MAE ELLA BAWDEN, youngest child of Henry Lightbourne and Bella Angel Bawden, b. 27 April 1886 in Davenport. After graduation from Davenport High School in 1905, she took a kindergarten course and assisted Miss Alice Robinson in her Peoples Union Mission Kindergarten est. 1900. Mae Ella also sang in local musical programs.
On 21 July 1908 at Edwards Congregational Church in Davenport, she married Morse Nevin Brown, b 29 Oct 1881 in Richland, Eaton County, MI, son of Samuel Brown. (resource spellings Morris – Marse) He lived at 734 E. 14th in Davenport and was an usher at 1st Presbyterian Church in 1905 on Kirkwood and Iowa. He worked as an auditor for Peabody Coal Co. in Chicago, Cook County, IL. He died May 1973 in Fayetteville, WA.
Mae Ella died at age 38 on 24 December 1924 in Chicago. She’s buried in an unmarked grave in Irving Park Cemetery. Irving Park, IL
a. Albert N. Brown b. 2 May 1909 in Chicago
b. Donald B. Brown, b. after 1910 in Chicago