Myrtle’s Birthplace

Jo Littrell, the only connection that I can find to Chicago is 'Big Momma' (Rosa (Jones) Brown, who moved to Chicago after her husbands (William Thomas Brown) death in 1905. Rosa and William would be your mother's grandparents. She died in Chicago in 1920. Buried in Montrose Cemetery.

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Who is who in this article.

• William Brown: William Thomas Brown, Myrtle’s grandfather.
• Big Mama Rosa Brown: Rosanna Jones, Myrtle’s grandmother.
• Myrtle Montgomery (wife of James F. Williams): Myrtle and James are the focal point of the Montgomery/Williams Project.

Rosanna Jones Brown

1864 Rosanna Jones Brown was born to Thomas & Amanda Jones in Fayette County, Kentucky (possibly Lexington).
After the Civil War The Jones' moved to Jefferson County, Kentucky (possibly Louisville) were Rosanna married William Thomas Brown.
The oldest daughter of Rosanna and William Brown, Nannie, married Joseph Frank Montgomery in Indianapolis sometime before 1908. Nannie would have been 22 in 1908.

http://www.communitywalk.com/location_info/2004070/13259015

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Who is who in this post:

• Rosa Jones in the grandmother of Myrtle Montgomery. Rosa married first William T. Brown and then David Hocker/Hopper after the death of William.
• James F. & Mertle (Montgomery) Williams are the focal point of this project.