1768 Mary Brown, daughter of Abia Brown and Margaret Sharp, was born in 1768. Mary Brown and Moses Austin were married in 1785. They had a child named Emily M Austin. Mary Brown died in 1823. [1]
1785 Mary Brown and Moses Austin were married on September 28 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. [2]
1821 Judge Moses Austin died on June 10 in Herculaneum, Jefferson County, Missouri. Judge Moses Austin was buried at Potosi Presbyterian Cemetery, Potosi, Washington County, Missouri. He was born on October 4, 1761 in Durham, Middlesex County, Connecticut. [3]
1824 Mary Austin died on January 8 in Hazel Run, St. Francois County, Missouri. Mary Austin was buried at Potosi Presbyterian Cemetery, Potosi, Washington County, Missouri. She was born on January 1, 1768 in New Jersey. [4]
A biosketch of Mary (Brown) Austin reports [5]:
The writer of the letter given below, Mary, widow of Moses, and mother of Stephen F. Austin, had a remarkable life and was descended from remarkable people. She was born January 1,1768, at Sharpsborough Upper Forge (one of the iron mines of her grandfather Sharp) in the mountains of New Jersey; married (September 28, 1785, in Christ Church, Philadelphia—where her grandmother and great-grandmother had been married before Her) Moses Austin, of Durham, Connecticut, and went with him to Richmond, Virginia, thence to the lead mines in the wilderness of Wythe county, and finally, in 1798, to Missouri, where she lived until her death—January 8, 1824—with the exception of about eighteen months spent among her relatives in the East while her daughter was in school in New York. The letters she wrote her husband during this time are most interesting.
[1] North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[2] Pennsylvania, Compiled Marriage Records, 1700-1821, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[4] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[5] "A letter from Mary [Mrs. Moses] Austin." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 10 (1906), 343, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].