The Ellen G. White Letters and Manuscripts: Volume 1

BRAZEE (BRISSEE), Cornelius (c. 1808-1890) and Emily C. (c. 1821-1889)

Church members and farmers from Fulton and Herkimer counties, New York. Emily Brazee's mother, Betsey Cady, and possibly Emily herself, had, while living in New Bedford, Massachusetts, first started to keep the Sabbath in the 1840s through their contacts with Joseph Bates. 1EGWLM 798.2

In 1852 James and Ellen White visited Emily Brazee and her husband, Cornelius, then living in Stratford, New York. In a report published in the Review James White entertained the “hope that [Cornelius] … will soon join his companion in observing the fourth commandment.” Ellen White's only mention of the Brazee family is found in a diary entry from 1859, where she expressed her pleasure at receiving a letter from “Emily Brissee.” “I have long wanted to hear from Emily. She still holds on to the truth. Her husband is converted; keeps the Sabbath with her.” 1EGWLM 798.3

See: Obituary: “Betsey Cady,” Review, Mar. 24, 1874, p. 119; “Our Tour West,” Review, Feb. 17, 1852, p. 94; Ellen G. White, Ms 6, 1859 (Apr. 18 entry); 1850 U.S. Federal Census, “Emily Brisee,” New York, Fulton County, Stratford, p. 244; Mary M. De Bolt, ed., Lineage Book: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (Washington, D.C.: The Society, 1925), vol. 76, p. 33. 1EGWLM 798.4