We reveal the history of the community through the stories of its dead
individual record

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dob
dod
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14JaneHaverBrown7/27/18228/31/1883heart trouble

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purchaser
cemetery
FALSEAdams Street

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R9 G4 south face
relations
Lonson Brown (1st husband) Elise Brown (daughter, b. c1843) Caroline Brown (daughter, b. c1844) Julia? Brown (daughter, b. c1848) Lewis J. Brown (infant son, d. 1853) Hettie? Brown (daughter, b. c1854) Horace Adams (2nd Husband)

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Jane Haver was born on July 27, 1822 in Ohio of parents from CT. She came to Berea in 1850. She married Lonson Brown and had at least five children between 1843 and 1854 (her obituary says five daughters; she also had one son who died as an infant). Lonson died in 1854. She was enumerated in the 1870 census, keeping a boarding house with daughter Caroline. She also had two adult daughters (both teachers), one teenage daughter(?), and eight students living there. She married Horace Adams on 12 September 1873. She was enumerated in the 1880 census in Berea, widowed, living with her unmarried daugher Caroline on Elm Street, on the "fashionable" side of town. A notice of her second marriage appeared in the 19 September 1873 Grindstone City Advertiser: "Adams-Brown—In this village on Friday September 12th, 1873, by Rev. T. K. Dissette, Horace F. Adams and Mrs. Jane Brown." Berea recorded her burial only as "widdow Adams" and that in the wrong year. Her obituary was published in the Berea Advertiser, 6 September 1882: "Death of an Old Resident. For thirty-three years Mrs. Jane Adams has been a resident of the south side. She died after a short illness on Friday, August 31st, 1883 aged about 60 years. She came to Berea in 1850 when the village consisted of but a few scattered houses, and shortly afterward married her first husband whose name was Lonson Brown, with whom she lived for some years. After his death she lived a widow for several years in the well known brick residence on Elm street. She gave her five daughters a good education. They are all married except one and, we believe, in comfortable circumstances. Some ten years ago she was married to Horrace Adams who died about three years since. She attended Lakeside encampement and campmeeting, but came home quite sick with heart trouble a week before her death. The funeral was attended at the house on Tuesday morning, Rev. A.J. Lyon conducting the services. Her remains were placed in the vault." The following week the newspapers informed readers that "The remains of Mrs. Jane Adams were buried Tuesday" (Berea Advertiser, 13 September 1883). Jane was buried with her infant son and first husband, in lot 119. The family monument is zinc, a fairly rare material for gravestones, but popular in the late 19th century. The whitish patina has held up well, with only small amounts of rust at joins. The monument is an obelisk with symbols around the base such as the Agnus Dei, the Lamb of God, which is typically found on infant or child grave markers. The inscription is today as it was when recorded in 1904 and 1934, in mint condition: "Jane H. Brown, born July 27, 1822. Married to Horace Adams, Sept. 12, 1873, died August 31, 1883." Probably the same as entry 460.

sources
E. S. Loomis and D. T. Gould, "Inscriptions from the Old Berea Cemetery," 1904, Adams St Cemetery folder, Berea Historical Society "Cuyahoga Cemetery Inscriptions," Vol. I, compiled by the Western Reserve Historical Society, 1934 "Numbers of burial lots and price," Adams St Cemetery folder, Berea Historical Society 1870 Federal Census, Jane Brown household, series M593, roll 1193, page 431 1880 Federal Census, Jane Adams household, series T9, roll 1009, page 238 Photo of Jane H. Brown inscription, Jeremy Feador, 2006. Grindstone City Advertiser,19 September 1873 Berea Advertiser, 13 September 1883