Elijah: A Slave Owner

Elijah Browning died very sudden not having been seen by a physician. He died of a disease of the heart . He is listed in several of Kentucky;s census along with hi s wife, Harriett and the children remaining. In the 1850 census he was listed as 53 years old.Another source document in addition to the census records is "Geneaology of the Brownings in America form 1621 to 1908" by Edward Franklyn Browning (EFB) and published by Journal Print, Newburg, New York.Elijah Browning was born March 17, 1797 in Clark County, Kentucky and died September 27, 1869 in Pendleton County, Kentucky. His father was Taliaferro or Toliver Browning and his mother was a cousin Mary Browning. He married his first wife Harriet Cleveland and his second wife Catherine Cleveland. The women were not sisters but they may have been related. He had eight children by the first wife and eight by the second.