Her parents, Union Army Officer Lt. Col. Harry Brownson, and Sarah Jane Mason, took her to Omaha, Nebraska in 1868, where her father had accepted work as a Station Agent for the Central Pacific Railroad, and later, for the Wells Fargo Stage Company. Affectionately known as "Mollie," she met and married 2LT George Horace Morgan on 1 November 1882, in Omaha, Nebraska. They lived a typical military life, living in such places as Fort Verde, Arizona; Minneapolis, Minn; Iloilo, on the Island of Panay, Phillippines; and Fort Bliss, Texas. Upon his retirement in 1920, they retired to San Diego, where she died in 1924. She was originally buried in San Diego, and later moved to Arlington National Cemetery to be buried next to her husband, in 1948. They had five children, all girls: Mary, Marguerite, Louise, Edith, and Dorothy.
Her parents, Union Army Officer Lt. Col. Harry Brownson, and Sarah Jane Mason, took her to Omaha, Nebraska in 1868, where her father had accepted work as a Station Agent for the Central Pacific Railroad, and later, for the Wells Fargo Stage Company. Affectionately known as "Mollie," she met and married 2LT George Horace Morgan on 1 November 1882, in Omaha, Nebraska. They lived a typical military life, living in such places as Fort Verde, Arizona; Minneapolis, Minn; Iloilo, on the Island of Panay, Phillippines; and Fort Bliss, Texas. Upon his retirement in 1920, they retired to San Diego, where she died in 1924. She was originally buried in San Diego, and later moved to Arlington National Cemetery to be buried next to her husband, in 1948. They had five children, all girls: Mary, Marguerite, Louise, Edith, and Dorothy.
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