Editing Margaret Brown (section)

==Marriage and children==
[[File:Brown Family Photo.jpg|thumb|[[James Joseph Brown|James Joseph (J.J.)]], Margaret (Maggie), and their children Lawrence Palmer (Larry) and Catherine Ellen (Helen) Brown, in [[Leadville, Colorado]]]]
In Leadville, she met and married [[James Joseph Brown]] (1854–1922), nicknamed "J.J.", an imaginative, self-educated man. He was not a rich man, and she married J.J. for love. After his death she said,

{{blockquote|I wanted a rich man, but I loved Jim Brown. I thought about how I wanted comfort for my father and how I had determined to stay single until a man presented himself who could give to the tired older man the things I longed for him. Jim was as poor as we were and had no better chance. I struggled hard with myself in those days. I loved Jim, but he was poor. Finally, I decided that I'd be better off with a poor man whom I loved than with a wealthy one whose money had attracted me. So I married Jim Brown.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sigillito |first=Gina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XfUCl5tHDNUC&pg=PA84 |title=The Daughters Of Maeve: 50 Irish Women Who Changed World |date=2012-04-24 |publisher=Kensington Publishing Corp. |isbn=978-0-8065-3609-5 |page=84}}</ref><ref name="Heroine">{{Cite book |last=Landau |first=Elaine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mbCF5L1sm94C&pg=PA44 |title=Heroine of the Titanic: The Real Unsinkable Molly Brown |date=2001 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |isbn=978-0-395-93912-3 |language=en }}</ref>{{rp|44–45}}}}

Margaret and J.J. married in Leadville Annunciation Church on September 1, 1886.<ref name="MO"/> They had two children: Lawrence Palmer Brown (1887–1949), known as Larry, and Catherine Ellen Brown (1889–1969), known as Helen.<ref name="Heroine" />{{rp|51, 52, 117}} They also raised three of their nieces: Grace, Florence, and Helen Tobin.<ref name="Iversen" />{{rp|xxiv}}