Elizabeth Brasher was the youngest daughter of Lawrence Brasher and his wife, Elizabeth Black.

Elizabeth was born c1815 in Kentucky, but information about her life is scarce. She married Edward Bourland on 28 January 1838 in Christian County, Kentucky.

Edward Bourland seems to have died before 1850 as he isn’t found in the census and “Elizabeth Bourland” is mentioned in a land deed dated 25 May 1850 for real estate owned by her father and sold by his heirs.

A Christian County court record includes the estate sale of one “E.M.G. Bourland” on 22 January 1845, which likely pertains to the estate of Elizabeth’s husband, Edwin. She is one of the buyers listed.

On 29 January 1869, Enoch and Sally Brown, sister and brother-in-law of “Mrs. Elizabeth Bourland,” sold her 50 acres of land in Christian County.

In 1870, she was enumerated living with daughter Mary Gilkey and her family in Hamby, Christian County, Kentucky and no further record has been found for Elizabeth.

Edwin and Elizabeth were the parents of only two children.

Children: (Bourland)

1. Mary C., born March 1839; died 26 March 1914; married John W. Gilkey, 18 March 1861, all in Christian County, Kentucky
2. Lawrence G., born c1843, Christian County, Kentucky; died about February 1862 when he was reported as missing at Fort Donelson, Tennessee; unmarried

Elizabeth was probably not happy that her only son, 18 years old, went off and enlisted to serve in the Civil War on 15 October 1861. He was reported missing at Fort Donelson, Tennessee. He was eventually declared dead as Elizabeth received a mother’s pension for his service from December 1863.

However, Edwin and Elizabeth have descendants today through their daughter, Mary, who had nine children.

This completes the updated family sketches of the children of Lawrence and Elizabeth (Black) Brasher of South Carolina and Kentucky.

Lawrence Brasher was the 7th child of Lawrence Brasher and Elizabeth Black, born c1810, possibly in Kentucky, but more likely in South Carolina as Lawrence Sr. doesn’t appear in the 1810 Kentucky census.

Lawrence Jr. grew up in Christian county and married Ailsey Lindley there on 16 March 1837. She was born in Kentucky c1818.

The Lindleys were part of the Brasher-Hamby-Armstrong-Woodruff FAN club.

Although Lawrence and Ailsey have gravestones, only their years of death are given. He died in 1882 and Ailsey followed in 1888, probably both in Hopkins County, Kentucky.

Initially, this Brasher family lived in Christian County, Kentucky, where at leas their first five children were born. sometime during the 1850s, they moved next door to Hopkins County, where they remained and lived out their lives.

Children: (Brasher)

1. Susan Parthenia, born about 15 January 1838, Christian County, Kentucky; died 25 November 1878, Hopkins County, Kentucky; married Allen McIntosh, 14 March 1859, Hopkins County, Kentucky
2. Margaret M., born 20 January 1840, Christian County, Kentucky; died 11 February 1919, Hopkins County, Kentucky; married Felix McIntosh, 11 August 1863, Hopkins County, Kentucky. Margaret was first enumerated as a girl named Raleigh in 1850 and then later went by Zerilda Margaret.
3. Elizabeth, born c1843, Christian County, Kentucky; died 1892, Hopkins County, Kentucky; unmarried
4. Thomas Elbert, born c1846, Christian County, Kentucky; died 1893, Hopkins County, Kentucky; unmarried
5. Onamine Sarah, born 10 February 1849, christian County, Kentucky; died 18 September 1915, Christian County, Kentucky; married Alfred Crick, 10 February 1870, Hopkins County, Kentucky. She went first by Ollie, so her name might have been Onamile, like her cousin Onamile (Onnie) Brown, and then later in life went by Sarah.
6. Idelia A., born 12 February 1854, Kentucky; died 13 October 1899, Christian County, Kentucky; married Jesse Crick, 17 October 1872, Hopkins County, Kentucky
7. George W., born 28 September 1859, Hopkins County, Kentucky; died between 1860-1870. No further record.

This completes the family sketch of Lawrence Brasher and Ailsey Lindley. There is just one more child of Lawrence and Elizabeth (Black) Brasher for whom a family sketch is needed – their youngest daughter, Elizabeth (Brasher) Bourland.

Sarah Brasher was the fourth daughter in a family of ten children born to Lawrence Brasher & Elizabeth Black.

Sarah was born on 13 February 1809 in South Carolina, but likely remembered nothing of her life there as the Brashers moved to Kentucky when she was just a toddler.

Enoch Alexander Brown was also a Southern who migrated to Kentucky, as he was born on 27 October 1805 in Georgia.

Enoch and Sarah married on 17 March 1831 in Christian County, Kentucky. They lived the rest of their lives there as Enoch died on 11 June 1882 and Sarah on 24 August 1884. They are buried in one of the Brown family cemeteries.

Enoch and Sarah were the parents of six children.

All events were in Christian County, Kentucky unless stated otherwise.

Children: (Brown)

1. Omar S., born 13 January 1832; died 28 October 1903; married (1) Catherine Marion Davis, 31 May 1866 (2) Nannie C. Myers, c1897.
2. Marcus D., born June 1833; died 18 April 1919; married Lucetta M. Davis, 7 October 1861.
3. Elizabeth, born 17 March 1837; died 23 May 1856, aged 19 years; unmarried
4. Albert E., born 21 January 1840; died 18 May 1862, from wounds received in the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee; unmarried
5. Onamile (Onnie) Jane, born about 21 February 1842; died 30 June 1922; married Volney Columbus Clark, 13 October 1869. Her gravestone says born 1840, but brother Albert was born that year and census records place her birth c1842.
6. Cyrus M., born 28 February 1848; died 9 August 1896; unmarried

It would be interesting to know the inspiration for Omar’s and Onamile’s names as they are very unusual for the time and place. Even Marcus and Cyrus are relatively uncommon. Perhaps that was the intent with a surname like Brown!

Daughter Elizabeth, son Albert and youngest child Cyrus didn’t marry and have no known descendants.

Omar was the parent of one daughter born to his first wife, Catherine.

Marcus and Lucetta were the parents of eight children.

Onnie was the mother of three children, but only one living in 1900.

Therefore, like Sarah’s brother Elijah, she and Enoch were parents to six children, but only three have descendants.