Record of Marriage
Henry Johnson Brent and Elizabeth Carroll, Washington, D.C., 1934
Henry Johnson Brent was the second child of Colonel William Brent and Catherine Walker Johnson of Washington, D.C. Born in 1811, he was a writer and painter. He married Elizabeth Carroll 7 January 1834. Elizabeth was the daughter of Daniel Carroll of Duddington and Anne Boyce and a distant cousin of Henry. After she died in Paris in 1846, Henry married a second time to Wealthy Backus of Rochester, New York.
Copy of the marriage record accessed at FamilySearch.org, from the database: District of Columbia Marriages, 1811-1950; Image and indexed info extracted from FHL MF 2079251: Registers of Marriages in the District of Columbia.
