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Elsie Brahan

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Elsie Brahan

Birth
Mississippi, USA
Death
1918 (aged 97–98)
Bexar, Bexar County, Texas, USA
Burial
Saint Hedwig, Bexar County, Texas, USA GPS-Latitude: 29.4098444, Longitude: -98.2148806
Memorial ID
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Elsie Brahan's grave is one of the earliest graves in the St. Hedwig Cemetery. She was a slave who walked from Alabama to Texas behind her master . (Source: San Antonio Express-News, Sunday, February 27, 2005, Section K)

According to the Bexar County 1910 U.S. census, Elsie lived in St. Hedwig in the home of her son Isaac Collins and his wife Lydia. Also residing in the household were Elsie's five grandchildren and one great granddaughter.
Elsie Brahan's grave is one of the earliest graves in the St. Hedwig Cemetery. She was a slave who walked from Alabama to Texas behind her master . (Source: San Antonio Express-News, Sunday, February 27, 2005, Section K)

According to the Bexar County 1910 U.S. census, Elsie lived in St. Hedwig in the home of her son Isaac Collins and his wife Lydia. Also residing in the household were Elsie's five grandchildren and one great granddaughter.

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