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with a headstone that reads “6-29-1875 / 7-23-1917.” She also adopted a son called Nolan Smith that lived in New Mexico.
F.	Rebecca “Becky” (Yarborough) Miller - bom on September 15, 1881, and died on July 6, 1901 as found on her headstone in Turtleskin cemetery. She married Joseph “Joe” Gipson in Hancock County in 1899. The record lists them as “Joseph Gipson and Rebecca Yarborough.” Rebecca died during the birth of her first child near Picayune. It appears that Joseph later married Eva A. Mitchell in
1902	in Hancock County. He is buried in the “Gipson” cemetery with a headstone in Pearl River County near the west line of Hancock County. It seems he used the “Gipson” spelling of the name and was bom in 1878.
G.	Irvin Miller - died as a young boy according to Lemuel Miller.
Other family members recall that Sarah “Sally” Brown also had Charles and John Miller. No records have been found for any of these three children.
V.	Jane Elizabeth Brown — according to her headstone in the Crane Creek Baptist
Church cemetery in northern Hancock County, she was bom on August 5, 1838, and died August 17, 1916. She appears in the 1850 Hancock census with parents and bom in MS in the year 1839. She appears in 1870 Hancock census with two children in her father’s household, and it says she was bom in 1838. Again she appears in the
1880	census with father and two children. Thus, the headstone dates are probably accurate. She married Henry S. Hutchinson on May 21, 1863, according to the record in the Hancock County Courthouse. Hutchinson worked on boats up and down the Mississippi River. He died in New Orleans, LA on October 2, 1867 and is buried there. Because he was gone much of the time, his wife, Jane, lived with her father, Robert Brown in the Gainesville community. Following her father’s death, she moved to the Crane Creek community with some of her family until she died.
Jane’s granddaughter, Elizabeth Hariel, told us on August 21, 1973 that Jane had red hair and that she had a good photograph of her grandmother, Jane E. Brown. Mrs. Hariel is now dead, but was living in her parent’s old home in the Crane Creek community at the time of this interview. Elizabeth also told us that Jane was born on December 27, 1891. She knew a considerable amount of information about her ancestors and her own relatives down the line.
Jane Elizabeth Brown, wife of Henry S. Hutchinson had:
A.	Thomas Jefferson Hutchinson - his headstone in Crane Creek cemetery says he was bom March 18, 1864, and died August 21, 1941. He lived last in the Crane Creek community and never married. He was often called “Uncle Hutch.” He appears in the 1870 and 1880 Hancock censuses with his mother and grandfather.
B.	Mary Marceline Hutchinson - her headstone in Crane Creek cemetery says that she was bom on March 19, 1866, and died October 22, 1939. She married Benjamin Claiborn Hariel on November 5, 1883 in Hancock County and lived in the Crane Creek community. The spelling of the name “Hariel” is somewhat
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