Black female, born about 1867 in Montgomery, AL. She died in Pensacola, FL on 28 January 1896 at the age of 29. Her cause of death was congestive chill (which at the time tended to indicate malaria with diarrhea). She had been in the city only six months at the time of her death, and her occupation was cook. Dr. W.F. Fordham signed the death certificate, and she was buried in the Escambia County Poor Farm cemetery by S. B. Hutchinson.
Amelia’s death notice appeared in the newspaper a few days after her death, but there is no more information than is on the death certificate.
Amelia is difficult to positively identify as she had been in Pensacola too short a time to appear in any records there; and there are several young women of color by the name of Amelia Brown in Alabama and Florida who would have been the same age.
SOURCES:
Florida Certificate of Death for Amelia Brown (No. 2559), Florida Deaths, 1877-1939. Database. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 14 June 2016. Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City.
Pensacola births and deaths, 1891-1910, Escambia County (Florida) Health Department. Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1973.
“Vital Statistics,” The Pensacola News, 3 FEB 1896, p. 5.