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Her earliest memory was being sold on the auction block
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After her master's death, Clara's family was split up and sold to settle his estate. For the next twenty years Clara worked as a slave for George Brown.
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Upon George Brown's death Clara was freed, and set out to find her long lost daughter Eliza Jane. She spent the next three years searching Kentucky, Missouri, and Kansas. Unfortunately she did not find her daughter.
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She considered the possibility that her daughter had traveled to Pike's Peak along with the many other in hopes of finding gold. She then set out on a 700 mile journey west setting her destination in Colorado. She secured a job on a wagon train as a cook in exchange for free transportation of her laundry pots
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Clara's wagon train lands her in Cherry Creek, where she opens the first laundry business to serve the miners. After about six months, she moved to Mountain City which later became Central City, where she invested her earnings in real estate, earning a small fortune. She becomes known as Aunt Clara becuase she provided food, shelter, and nursing care to the townspeople.
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Clara returns east, first to Kentucky, and then to Tennessee in search for her daughter Eliza Jane.
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Clara buys the freedom of several slaves that she befriended on her trip through Kentucky and Tennessee, and returns to Colorado with all of them.
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Clara is the first women to be made a member of the Colorado Pioneer Association
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At age 79 Clara finds her 56 year old daughter in Iowa, and returns home to Colorado with her.
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In 1885, Clara Brown peacefully died
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Clara Brown was induced into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame