This is my maternal grandmother, Euna Blanche Brownlow, as a young child. Her parents were Edward Isaac Brownlow and Elizabeth Skipper Brownlow. She was born in Murchison, Henderson County, Texas and lived most of her life in Eldorado, OK. Her family were farmers. She lived to be 87, when she died, January 7, 1990, with breast cancer in Hospice in Amarillo, Texas. She is buried in the Eldorado Cemetery, Eldorado, Jackson County, OK. She was married twice, once to John Luther Gossett, who she had 2 children with, and to Thomas Levy Denton, who she had one child with. She was one of 24 children born from 2 wives of Edward Isaac Brownlow.
This is my maternal grandmother, Euna Blanche Brownlow. She was photographed because her parents, Edward Isaac and Elizabeth Brownlow, had lost several babies between my grandmother and their surviving children. My grandmother, Euna Blanche Brownlow Denton, lived to be 87 years old, died in Amarillo, Texas, and is buried in Eldorado Cemetery at Eldorado, Jackson County, Oklahoma.
She was one of 24 children of Edward Isaac Brownlow. His first wife died and he then married my great-grandmother, Elizabeth Skipper Brownlow.
Euna Blanche Brownlow married John Luther Gossett at age 17. She had two children with him, Garland Edward Gossett, and my mother, Willie Jo Gossett. They divorced when my grandmother was expecting my mom.
My grandmother then married Thomas Levi Denton of Eldorado, Oklahoma, and they had a daughter, Bobby Blanche Denton.
My grandmother pieced many, many quilts.
She had a granddaughter by her son, Garland, a granddaughter by her daughter, Willie Jo, and 3 grandsons by her daughter, Bobby.
This picture is of my maternal great-grandparents and their children. Edward Isaac Brownlow was married twice. This picture is of his second wife, Elizabeth Elvira Skipper Brownlow, their children and 2 children from his first marriage.
From left to right back row:
Euna Blanche Brownlow,
Irene Brownlow,
Gertrude Brownlow Skipper(she married Elizabeth Brownlow's brother, Wes),
John Minton "Mitt" Brownlow,
Elizabeth Eliva Skipper Brownlow,
Edward Isaac Brownlow,
Mairl Vivien Brownlow,
Erskin Ray Brownlow,
Guy Edward Brownlow,
Oscar Lawrence Brownlow,
Alvis Ruth Brownlow,
Willie Jessamine Brownlow,
Emory Vinson "Jack" Brownlow (Baptist minister),
Edward Isaac Brownlow had a total of 24 children, offspring from 2 wives. Not all lived to adulthood.
He was from Giles County Tennessee originally and located to Eldorado, Jackson County, OK with his second wife.
He and his wife are buried in Antioch Cemetery, Jackson County, Oklahoma.
People in photo include: Gertrude E Brownlow
Date & Place:
in Eldorado, Jackson County, Oklahoma United States