Ione Waite

Ione Waite (Brown)

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37587269/iona_waite

Aged 63 years
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Daughter and 11th and last child of Major General Joseph White Brown, her Uncle Gen. J.W.'s brother was Major General Jacob Jennings Brown 11th Senior officer of the United States Army from June 1815 to June 1821, when Congress changed the title to Commanding General which he held until his death February 24, 1828, resulting from his wounds suffered at The Battle of Lundy's.

U.S. President John Quincy Adams was good friend and wrote the epitaph inscribed upon his monument and wrote in his diary of the conversations he had with Jacob.Jacob was also the 24th recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal for the war of 1812, additionally his ancestors are certified to have fought the American Revolution (the 7th of Pennsylvania) # 4822

" Sacred to the memory of General Jacob Brown, who was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on the 9th day of May, 1775, and died at the City of Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, on the 24th day of February, 1828.

" Let him who in after years
Shall view this monument of praise,
For honor heave the patriot sigh
And for his Country learn to die."

IONE'S MARRIAGE, SPOUSE, FATHER-IN-LAW AND CHILDREN

IONE...Married August 10,1865 to Henry Waite son of 7th Chief Justice of the United States Morrison Remick Waite.... nominated by President Ulysses S Grant , Waite was Chief Justice from 1874-1888
Known for overturning post civil war reconstruction laws.
Practiced Law in Ohio and was elected to the Ohio senate 1849-1850
IONE and Henry had two sons Morrison R. and Henry
Henry died on April 16 1873

HER SIBLINGS....and their Brown family NO.'s

1.Egbert Benson,No.72,2.John Tryon No.73,3.Maria Tryon, No.74,4.Cornelia Eliza,No.75,5.Josephine, No.76, 6.Jacob B.,No.77,7.William Augustus, No.78,
8.Patterson, No.79,9. Mason K.,No.80,
10.Lewis Cass,No.81,11.Ione,No. 82.