Although known today as the husband of Unsinkable Molly Brown Margaret Brown of RMS Titanic disaster fame, he was one of the wealthiest men in the United States from his days as a gold mine owner of the Colorado gold and silver booms of the 19th century. 1707, citing Cemetery of the Holy Rood, Westbury, Nassau County, New York, USA ; … Brown was never known as Molly or as Unsinkable in her lifetime as this was a Hollywood invention, first started by Denver Post reporter Gene Fowler and author Carolyn Bancroft in the 1930s. In 1932, the "unsinkable Molly Brown" died from a brain tumour and was buried next to her husband. Background and Early Life. Despite the legend, she was not … After a simple funeral service Maggie was buried, next to J.J., in Long Island's Holy Rood Cemetery. Molly Brown was the wife of a miner who made a fortune in silver mining in Colorado. Businessman. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for Margaret “Unsinkable Molly Brown” Tobin Brown (18 Jul 1867–26 Oct 1932), Find a Grave Memorial no. Their daughter Helen Benziger (née Brown) died in Old Greenwich, Connecticut on 17 October 1993 at the age of 97. Philanthropist Margaret Tobin, better known as Molly Brown, was born on July 18, 1867, in Hannibal, Missouri. Sometimes referred to as "the Unsinkable Molly Brown…