Just before Hannah died:
She had her own milk cow. It was fed and herded with Jims cows, but Hannah milked her morning and night. One morning, she came into the house after milking the cow and said, “I can’t milk this cow anymore.” Eli, Manilla’s husband came down and took the cow home with him.
She didn’t live too long after that. She died of dropsy. Dora was with her when she died.
Anna Johanna (Hannah) Brown died 21 October 1940. She was 87 years old. Buried 24 October 1940 Monroe City Cemetery. She had upheld the noble heritage left by her parents.
POEM: Written about Anna Johanna Nielsen Brown:
You’ve toiled in your garden ‑ You’ve worked so hard
Not only in your garden of plants and flowers ‑
But in your garden of home, among your children.
You’ve nourished your little buds with care,
With infinite tenderness. Given them food in the deep
And moving doctrines of your faith. Quenched their thirst
With the cooling refreshing rain of your love and sympathy.
You are a true gardener, my dear,
And such a well beloved one.