Lily "Ora"
Ora (Harreld)
Brown

April 20, 1881 - January 6, 1962

Harreldsville, Kentucky

Lily Ora was one of three daughters of John Dillard Harreld and Adelia Belle McReynolds Harreld. Her mother died when she was 10 and she & her sisters went to live with relatives in Beechland, Kentucky, near their father's farm. She did well in school and attended Logan Female College in Russellville before marrying George Preston Brown in 1901. Together they had nine children and had both a farm in Beechland and a house in Lewisburg, Kentucky. She was a Methodist, but attended a Baptist church later in life.