The
following record is taken from the History of Florida DAR, 1892-1933:
Philip
Perry Chapter Organizing Regent Susie Brown Brady was born Susie
Brown on January 16, 1856, in Hamilton, NY. Her father was Philip Perry
Brown, Brevet Brigadier General of the 157th New York Volunteers. Her
mother, Sarah Jackson, was born in England.
Susie
Brown Brady was educated in Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Alton, IL. In
1881, she relocated to Florida with her widowed mother and purchased an
orange grove on the Indian River at City Point. Seventeen years were
spent teaching in Florida's Brevard and Dade counties, serving many
times on the Examining Board of the County of Brevard. On May 28, 1898,
Susie married Adhemar Brady of the Confederate Veterans of Alabama. He
held commissions of Captain of Home Guards, Captain of Cadets, and
Captain of Brevard County, Confederate Veterans.
After
her marriage, she organized the Philip Perry Chapter NSDAR in 1915, and
resided in Titusville, FL, until the death of her husband in 1922, when
she moved to West Palm Beach, FL. She died on 4 February 1928. A Titusville newspaper
obituary detailed her casket arrival by train, accompanied by her
grandniece. Twenty-four pallbearers were there to meet the train.
Philip
Perry Chapter members marked her gravesite on 4 February 2004, at
Oaklawn Memorial Gardens & Mausoleums, in Titusville, FL.
