Class of 1916

Birth: 28 Oct 1895, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Death: 10 Jun 1991, Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina

Parents:
Charles Alexander Isenhour (1866-1941)
Flora Lisette Litaker Isenhour (1866-1921)

Siblings:
Harry Edgar Isenhour (1893-1986)
Annie Belle Isenhour Harkey (1898-1971)
William Guy Isenhour (1899-1987)
Robert Rufus Isenhour (1901-1984)
Martha Catherine Isenhour (1901-1990)

Spouse: Bachman Storch Brown (1889-1978)
Marriage: 14 Oct 1924

Children:
Bachman Storch Brown Jr. (1926-2014)
Charles Eugene Brown (1928-)

Burial: Greenlawn Cemetery, China Grove, Rowan County, North Carolina
Source: www.findagrave.com, #162306199

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James L. Fisher, Arthur W. Fisher, Hilbert A. Fisher, The Jacob Fisher Family, 1727-1958 (1959), p. 301.

BEULAH L. ISENHOUR, b. Oct. 28, 1895, m. Rev. Bachman Storch Brown, D. D., b. Oct. 6, 1889. Children: Bachman Storch, Jr., B. Feb. 11, 1926 – Charles Eugene, b. Oct. 3, 1928.

Beulah Louise, daughter of Charles A. and Lizzette Litaker Isenhour, was born in Cabarrus County, N. C., October 28, 1895. After graduating from Concord High School and Mont Amoena Seminary at Mt. Pleasant, N. C. she taught for several years in the public schools of Statesville and Concord, N. C. She also attended summer sessions at Appalachian State Teachers College and at the University of North Carolina.

On October 14, 1924, she was married to the Rev. B. S. Brown, a native of Madison, Virginia and a graduate of Roanoke College and the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who had recently become pastor of First Lutheran Church, Lexington, N. C. They moved to Lincoln County, N. C., in 1939 and to China Grove in 1946. Since that time, Dr. Brown has been pastor of Lutheran Chapel Church. Both have been active in the general work of the Church in addition to their duties in the local parish.

The Browns have two sons, both born at Lexington, N. C. Bachman S., Jr. is a practicing attorney at Kannapolis, N. C.; and is at present Judge of the Cabarrus County Domestic Relations Court. He received his A. B. and LL. B. degree from Duke university. On June 12, 1953, he was married to Mabel Christine Patterson of China Grove. Charles Eugene attended Lenoir Rhyne College and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and received the B. S. degree from the latter. He is now living at Fincastle, Virginia, where he is serving as Assistant Agent of Botetourt County under the Virginia Agricultural Extension Service. He was married to Edna Caldwell of Fincastle on October 14, 1955. They have one child, Catherine Elaine, born November 1, 1957.

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The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC) 19 Oct 1924, 3.

BROWN-ISENHOUR

CONCORD – Oct 18. – In a wedding in which the beauty of simplicity was the prominent note, Miss Beulah Isenhour, of this city, became the bride of Bachman Brown, Jr., of Lexington at the St. James Lutheran church, Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock.

Mrs. M. L. Harkey, sister of the bride and only attendant. The bride and groom entered together. The complete Lutheran ritual was used by the two officiating ministers, Rev. L. A. Thomas and Rev. R. S. Brown, father of the groom. Mr. and Mrs. Brown after a wedding trip through western North Carolina will b e at home in Lexington.

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Independent Tribune (Concord, NC) 11 Jun 1991, p. 14.

Mrs. Beulah Brown

KANNAPOLIS — Beulah Isenhour Brown, 95, formerly of 1307 Central Drive, Kannapolis, died at 8:20 a.m. Monday, June 10, 1991, at N.C. Lutheran Home, Salisbury after 10 days of illness.

The funeral will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Lutheran Chapel Church of China Grove with the Rev. William C. Haskell and the Rev. G. Reginald Cruse officiating. Burial will follow at Greenlawn Cemetery in China Grove.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 tonight at Whitley’s Funeral Home and at the home of her son, Kannapolis Mayor Bachman S. Brown Jr., 1636 Eastwood Dr., Kannapolis.

Born Oct. 28, 1895, in Cabarrus County, she was the daughter of the late Charles A. and Lizzette Litaker Isenhour and the mother of Mayor Bachman Brown of Kannapolis.

She was a former teacher in the Statesville and Concord Public schools, a member of Redeemer Lutheran Church of Kannapolis, active in Sunday School, Lutheran Church Women, life member of Lutheran Church Women and was a graduate of Concord High School and Mont Amoena Seminary of Mt. Pleasant.

She was married to the Rev. B.S. Brown Sr., who died March 9, 1978.

In addition to her son, survivors include another son, Charles E. Brown of Suffolk, Va.; four grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.

Memorials may be made to Redeemer Lutheran Church, 1501 Central Dr., Kannapolis, 28083, or Salisbury Unit of N.C. Lutheran Homes, P.O. Box 1310, Salisbury, 28145.