Anna Eva Brown

  Noted events in her life were:

• Residence: From 1930 Census, 1930, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut. Anna G Smith
United States Census, 1930
Name Anna G Smith
Event Type Census
Event Date 1930
Event Place Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Gender Female
Age 38
Marital Status Married
Race White
Race (Original) White
Relationship to Head of Household Head
Relationship to Head of Household (Original) Head
Birth Year (Estimated) 1892
Birthplace Connecticut
Father's Birthplace New York
Mother's Birthplace Texas
Sheet Letter A
Sheet Number 10

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
Anna G Smith Head F 38 Connecticut
John W Gray Son M 6 Connecticut
Frederick B Gray Son M 3 Connecticut

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch

• Residence: From 1940 Census, 1940, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut. Name: Anna Smith
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1940
Event Place: Ward 1, Danbury, Danbury Town, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 45
Marital Status: Widowed
Race: White
Race (Original): White
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Head
Birthplace: Connecticut
Birth Year (Estimated): 1895
Last Place of Residence: Same Place

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
Anna Smith Head F 45 Connecticut
John Smith Son M 15 Connecticut
Frederick Smith Son M 14 Connecticut

Note: John and Frederick's surname is Gray, not Smith

District: 1-9
Family Number: 104
Sheet Number and Letter: 5B
Line Number: 44
Affiliate Publication Number: T627
Affiliate Film Number: 494
Digital Folder Number: 005461383
Image Number: 00293

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7BG-9JG : 13 December 2019), Frederick Smith in household of Anna Smith, Ward 1, Danbury, Danbury Town, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 1-9, sheet 5B, line 46, family 104, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 494.

• Surname: Various. Smith is given in 1930 Census
Her son's obituary identifies her as Anna Eva Brown Gray Howland.

• Gravestone: From the Charles R. Hale Collection, Mar 1980, Wilton, Fairfield, Connecticut. Joe's Hill Cemetery Records
Wilton, Connecticut
Joe's Hill Cemetery was copied from the Charles R. Hale Collection as found in the Connecticut State Library.
Joe's Hill Cemetery is located in the Town of Wilton, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
Gravestone Inscription
Gray, Anna Eva Brown, wife of Fredrick B., born 1892, died ----.

Note: It isn't clear that she is buried here as she remarried and died in Pennsylvania.

Wilton Library Listing

93 6 Anna Eva Brown Gray Smith Olmstead Howland b. 1892 d. 3/15/1980 age 87 wife of Frederick B. Gray & Truman Smith

Anna married Frederick Beebe Gray, son of John K Gray and Mary J Hoyt, about 1921 in Wilton, Fairfield, Connecticut. (Frederick Beebe Gray was born in 1865 in Connecticut and died in 1927 in Wilton, Fairfield, Connecticut.)

Anna next married Howland.