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Brackett, Mary Ann

Name: Brackett, Mary Ann
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Sex: F
Birth: Abt 1848
Death: 25 Jun 1923
Marker: No
Spouse(s): Remus Brackett
Parents: Wilson and Eliza Harris Brown
Children: Isabella R. Brackett Matthews, Frances Brackett, Robert Brackett, Sarah Eliza Brackett Hearn, Ann E. Brackett Baker
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Mary Ann Brackett (1838-1923), widow of Remus Brackett, was the Mother of eight children, including Sarah Hearn, Mother of Mrs. M. Bessie Taylor, a Jefferson School teacher and member of First Baptist Church, West Main.

Mary Ann Brackett’s husband Remus Brackett and his twin brother Romulus Brackett were among the enslaved workers who built towering embankments and prepared and maintained track beds on the Blue Ridge Railroad near the tunnel. We have not located a marker for Mr. Remus Brackett (1825-1899), but we believe that he is buried at the Daughters of Zion Cemetery alongside his wife, Mrs. Mary Ann Brackett.

Mary E. Lyons has written about the Brackett twins and the Blue Ridge Railroad in her books The Blue Ridge Tunnel: A Remarkable Engineering Feat In Antebellum Virginia (2014), The Virginia Blue Ridge Railroad (2015), and Slave Labor On Virginia’s Blue Ridge Railroad (2020).

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