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Mary Ann Day Brown (April 15, 1816 – February 29, 1884) was the second wife of abolitionist John Brown, leader of a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia), which attempted to start a campaign of liberating enslaved people in the South.
The headstone reads: "Mary A., wife of John Brown of Harpers Ferry." She married the militant abolitionist in Pennsylvania in 1832, raising five children of his first wife and bearing thirteen of her own, of whom six survived to adulthood. Her sons Watson and Oliver died in John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
Brown hired a new housekeeper and was attracted to her sister, Mary Ann Day. They were married in 1833 when Mary Ann was 17. She possessed great physical stamina and was devoted to her responsibilities managing the household and raising the children.
Mary Ann Day Brown was the wife of abolitionist John Brown and a free state supporter in Kansas. Learn about her life, family, and involvement in the anti-slavery movement.
26 mar 2016 · A Virginia court found him guilty of murder, treason, and inciting a slave revolt; he was hanged on December 2, 1859. It is Mary who deserves accolades for bringing the remains of John Brown to rest at the farm in the Adirondacks.
Mary Ann Day, 1816-1884, born in New York, was the daughter of Charles and Mary Day. The family moved to Crawford County, Pennsylvania, when Mary Ann was a young girl. She married John Brown, a widower twice her age, on July 11, 1833.
April 15, 2016 is the 200th birthday of Mary Ann Day Brown, "wife of John Brown of Harpers Ferry" as her grave monument epitaph states at the Madronia Cemetery in Saratoga, California.
