Charlotte T (Ott) Brumfield 1813 LA – 1895

Charlotte Temple (Ott) Brumfield was born 5 September 1813 in Louisiana. She was the daughter of Jacob Ott III and Margaret Jackson. She married Nathaniel Brumfield. They had five children. After Nathaniel died she married his brother, Elijah Brumfield. Charlotte Temple (Ott) Brumfield must have been a strong woman to survive the grief that was a significant part of her life. She outlived her seven siblings, both her husbands and her oldest child. Despite all that sorrow she lived to be 81 years old.

In 1850 Charlotte and Nathaniel lived in Washington Parish, Louisiana where Nathaniel was a farmer and Charlotte was the mother of four children: Martin Penn Brumfield, 13; Jessie Alexander Brumfield, 11; John D. Brumfield, 8; and Sarah Lucy (Brumfield) Roberts, 5 years old. Laura E. (Brumfield) Alford was born the next year. Nathaniel died when he was 53 years old, on 8 February 1852.  Charlotte became a widow when she was just 39 years old and the mother of five children. The youngest child was just a year old when Nathaniel died. She then married her late husband’s younger brother, Elijah Brumfield, and became the mother of two more children.

Charlotte became a widow again. Elijah’s death date is unknown but many researchers give 1860 as his year of death. He was listed in the census but may have died after the census was taken. However, in 1863 the local school census shows Elijah (not Charlotte) as the parent of three daughters in school: Laura E. (Brumfield) Alford, Charlotte Angelina (Brumfield) Brock and Courtney Rebecca (Brumfield) Tate. Therefore, he most likely died after that school census was taken, making Charlotte a widow for the second time. Charlotte continued to live in Washington Parish, Louisiana. She lived with her son, John D. Brumfield and her youngest daughters, Charlotte and Courtney in 1870  and 1880. Charlotte died in 1895.

1 Charlotte Temple Ott b: 1813 in LA, d: 1895
…… + Nathaniel Brumfield b: 1813 in Washington Parish, LA
…………2 Martin Penn Brumfield b: 15 March 1837 in LA, d: April 1862 in VA
…………2 Jessie Alexander Brumfield b: 27 Sept 1838 in LA, d: Aft. 1910
………… + Martha Elizabeth Alford b: 08 Aug 1846 in Pike, MS d: Aft. 1910
………………3 Martin Ellis Brumfield b: Sept 1865 in MS, d: Aft. 1920
……………… + Dollie King b: June 1877 in LA
………………3 Rose Ella Brumfield b: 18 July 1867 in MS, d: 02 Oct 1948 in Magnolia, Pike, MS
……………… + Jasper Pascal Brown b: 15 May 1865 in Pike, MS, m: 21 Dec 1887 in Pike, MS, d: 08 June 1950 in McComb, Pike, MS
………………3 John Edward Brumfield b: Nov 1869 in MS, d: 1933
……………… + Ada Beatrice Fortenberry b: 1893, d: 1956
………………3 Fletcher Boyd Brumfield b: 28 June 1875 in MS
……………… + Mattie Burmfield b: MS, m: Abt. 1908
………………3 Lily E. Brumfield b: 1876 in MS, d: 1959
……………… + Julius Alford b: 25 October 1869 in LA
………………3 Daisy L. Brumfield b: July 1879 in MS
……………… + Cornelius Alford
………………3 Lucy May Brumfield b: 12 April 1881 in MS
………………3 Sallie Joy Brumfield b: 31 May 1884 in MS
……………… + Joseph Ed Brumfield b: Abt. 1873 in MS
…………2 John D. Brumfield b: 29 July 1842 in LA, d: 01 April 1903
………… + Zadie Martin
………………3 John D. T. Brumfield b: September 1890 in LA
………………3 James H. Brumfield b: July 1892 in LA
…………2 Sarah Lucy Brumfield b: 21 November 1845 in LA, d: 1926
………… + Isaac Roberts
…………2 Laura Brumfield b: 19 April 1851 in LA, d: 25 Sept 1936
………… + Needham Alford
…… + Elijah Brumfield b: 1805 in York, SC
…………2 Charlotte Angelina Brumfield b: 07 Aug 1855, d: 1936
…………2 Courtney Rebeccca Brumfield b: 11 April 1857

Sources:

• 1850 US Census, Louisiana
• 1860 US Census, Washington County, Louisiana, Page 3.
• Clawson, Alma Dell Magee.  Fields of Bloom.  Privately printed. 1972.
• Wallis, Ruth Temple. Descendants of Jacob Ott of South Carolina and Louisiana. 1967. Bogalusa, Louisiana. Privately printed.