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Generation No. 1

George Alton Brown

The oldest ancestor we have been able to locate to date in our Brown family line is GEORGE ALTON BROWN.  

George Alton Brown was born in Virginia in 1810; his parents and  siblings, if any, are unknown.   George became one of the first settlers of Texas at age 26.  He immigrated to Red River County, Texas, on December 19, 1836, prior to the time Texas became a Republic in 1837.  George received Conditional Certificate No. 151, from the Republic of Texas, County of Red River, on August 3, 1838 for 640 acres of land.  This certificate was replaced by an unconditional certificate, No. 25, on July 15, 1841.  George sold this land in 1844.  [Texas General Land Office records, File #RED-2-152]

About 1839, George married Mary "Polly" McClinton, daughter of John McClinton and Eleanor Lunetta Baird of Abbeville County, South Carolina.  Mary was born in SC about 1820.  Titus County, Texas was form in 1845 from Red River County, Texas.   According to the 1850 Census for Titus County, Texas, the couple had the following children:

Roxana

b. July 8, 1840

Solon

b. ca 1842 in TX

Lycurgus Carl

b. June 26, 1844 in Titus Co., TX

Virginia

b. ca 1845 in TX

Josephine

b. ca 1848 in TX

We lose track of George after the1850 census until the1880 census, when he is listed in the home of his son, Lycurgus C. Brown, in Montague County, Texas.  His wife, Mary is reported to have died in 1851, followed by Solon, and then by Josephine in 1857.   Daughter, Roxana, was married in Sevier County, Arkansas on January 31, 1856 to Henry Jackson.    They had one son, Henry Jackson, Jr., born ca 1859, as reflected by the 1860 Census Records for Hopkins County, Texas. 

On May 5, 1858, the Court of Probate of Sevier County, Arkansas, entered an order on pages 26-27 of its records, appointing Mary's brother, Rev. Robert Harvey McClinton, guardian of minors, Lycurgus and Virginia Brown. In 1860, Lycurgus and Virginia were living in Hopkins County, Texas, with Roxana and Henry Jackson. 

Lycurgus enlisted in the Texas Calvary on June 1, 1862 to fight in the Civil War.  Roxana married for the second time on November 9, 1862, in Hopkins County, Texas, to Alexander Bradley Punfort ("ABP" or "Bradley") Mayfield.  [No information has been found to indicate what happened to Henry Jackson, Sr. and Jr.] 

Virginia married John Jackson on May 31, 1863 in Hopkins County, Texas.

Lycurgus was discharged from service in May 1865 and moved to Montague County, Texas, along with Roxana and family (and possibly Virginia and John Jackson).  In 1869, both Lycurgus and ABP Mayfield registered to vote, indicating they had been in Montague County for 4 years.

On September 15, 1867, Lycurgus married Emily Mayfield, daughter of Williamson Irvin Mayfield and Susan Mary (Cline) Mayfield in Montague County, Texas.  [Emily Mayfield was a third cousin, twice removed, of ABP Mayfield.]

George died February 11, 1884 and is buried in the Mayfield Cemetery in Montague County, Texas.  His tombstone (which is now almost unreadable) showed:  "Dr. G.A. Brown, Born 1810, Died February 11, 1884"   A new marker was erected by the Brown Family Association on his grave in August 2000.  According to family history, George Alton Brown was a veternarian.

If you have any information on any of these ancestors or their descendants, we would love to hear from you.  Contact either Max E. Brown or Kelli I. Bacle by email.

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Generation No. 2

Roxana Brown

ABP & Roxana Mayfield had 3 children: 

Lycurgus Carl Brown

Lycurgus Carl Brown was born June 22, 1844 in Red River (now Titus) County, Texas.  By 1860, he  had moved to Hopkins County, Texas.  On June 1, 1862, at age 18, Lycurgus enlisted in the Texas Calvary to fight in the Civil War. He was a private in Company D of the 31st Texas Calvary under the command of Col. Hawpe's regiment and Capt. Waller. He was honorably discharged at the close of war in May 1865 at Virginia Point - Galveston Bay. He was never wounded in battle nor commissioned as an officer.

Lycurgus' service in the 31st Texas Calvary was described by him in his application for a pension:

     "I was in Louisina after February 1864 until after the Battle of Mansfield, and was then sent to Galveston Texas, and from there to Virginia Point, where I was discharged. . . after the date of February 1864, will say that after the Mansfield battle, I had a 30 days furlough and went home in Hopkins County, Texas, and when I returned my command had gone down the (Red) River, and I reached them about 100 to 150 miles from where I left them. I was in the infantry, until discharged, and was in Captian John R. Waller's until after he resigned, and when we disbanded I think my First Leuitenant Ewin Carter and Maj. Malone was with us, and when we went to Galveston and Virginia Point, I understood that we were under General Kirby Smith, in command of the Trans-Missippi Division."

Following discharge from the service in 1865, Lycurgus moved to Montague County, Texas, where he became a farmer.  On September 15, 1867, at the age of 23, Lycurgus married Emily Mayfield, daughter of Williamson Irvin Mayfield and Susan Mary Cline. Emily was born December 2, 1847 in Spencer, Owen County, Indiana. The family Bible records state: 

"Lycurgus Brown of Montague County, Texas, and Emily Mayfield of Montague County, Texas were married the 15th day of Sept. 1867 at W.I. Mayfields.  United in Holy Bonds of Matrimony by Andrew J. Rendall, Officiating Minister.  Witness A.B.P. Mayfield and family, L. Jackson." 

Lycurgus and Emily had 8 children, all born in Montague Coiunty, Texas, as reflected in the family Bible:

Lycurgus and Emily lived next to her parents, in Montague County, TX. Lycurgus built another house next to theirs, which they called the "weaning pen". Each of their children, when they married, lived in that house until they got their own home.

In 1901, Lycurgus moved his family to Indian Territory in Oklahoma for the land rush, where they obtained land in Kiowa County.  On February 2, 1915, Lycurgus' wife, Emily, died and was buried in Hobart, Kiowa County, Oklahoma. Lycurgus died on September 18, 1929, at the age of 85 at his daughter's in Vernon, Wilbarger County, Texas. His body was returned to Oklahoma and is buried next to Emily's in Rose Haven Cemetery in Hobart, Oklahoma.

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Generation No. 3

Susan Mary "Mollie" Brown

Mollie Brown, daughter of Lycurgus C. & Emily Brown, was born July 26, 1869 in Spanish Fort, Montague County, Texas.  On September 10, 1885, at the age of 16, she married Robert J. "Bart" Henson in Montague County.  Five children were born to Mollie and Bart Henson between 1886 and 1898:

Mollie was a small, energetic, feisty lady who loved music and dancing.  She was married a number of times during her life and lived in Texas and Oklahoma at various times.  In the 1920's she was married to a Marvin H. Kester (Kester Art Company) and lived in Vernon, Wilbarger County, TX.  In the 1940's, she was living in Oklahoma City, near her nephew, William Grant Brown.  She died September 17, 1965, at age 96, and is buried in Hobart, Kiowa County, OK.  The name on her tombstone is "Mollie Brown Kent".

Anyone having information on the Henson descendants is encouraged to contact the Brown Family Association.

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Generation No. 3

Nancy Emma Brown

Emma Brown, second daughter of Lycurgus & Emily Brown, was born February 19, 1872 in Spanish Fort, Montague County, TX.  She married Ira LaNorris Caldwell on August 15, 1894 in Montague County, son of John M.T. Caldwell and Frances Eugenia Thompson.  Ira was born September 5, 1866 in Ashland, Clay Co., Alabama and died May 18, 1950 in Carter County, OK.  They had four children:

Emma lived in Oklahoma most of her life.  She died in Ardmore, Carter County, OK on March 9, 1962, at age 90, and is buried in Hewitt Cemetery next to her family in Wilson, Carter County, OK.  At the time of her death, Emma had 15 grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren, and 2 great-great-grandchildren. 

The Brown Family Association would love to hear from the descendants of Emma Brown Caldwell.  If you have any information regarding these descendants, please contact us.

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Generation No. 3

George Irving "Bud" Brown

Bud Brown, son of Lycurgus & Emily Brown, was born October 25, 1875 in Bonita, Montague County, Texas.  He married Martha Ellen Groves, daughter of Gabriel Thomas Groves and Annie Elizabeth Keplinger, on September 22, 1895 in Montague County.  Martha Ellen was born March 1, 1880 in Grant County, WV.  Bud and Martha lived on a 240-acre farm in Shady Grove, outside Nocona, in Montague County, and had 14 children:

Bud, with his brothers, Charlie and Ollie, started the tradition of holding annual family reunions in 1936.   The reunions continued to be held until Bud's death; he died January 26, 1960, at age 85, in Montague County, TX and is buried next to Martha in the Shady Grove Cemetery.

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Generation No. 3

Walter Weaver Brown

Walt Brown, second son of Lycurgus & Emily Brown, was born September 7, 1877 in Spanish Fort, Montague County, Texas.  He married Fortuna Eloise "Tunee" Carpenter about 1903, daughter of George E. and Samantha Carpenter; they had four children:

Walt moved his family to OK about 1911, then to Corona, Lincoln County, NM where he received a land grant in 1921, and finally to Douglas, AZ, where he worked as a smelterman for the Copper Queen Mine.  He died September 8, 1961 in Douglas, Cochise County, AZ, at age 84, and is buried there.

If you have any information about the descendants of Walter Weaver Brown, please contact the Brown Family Association.

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Generation No. 3

James Claudis Brown

Jim Brown, third son of Lycurgus & Emily Brown, was born May 11, 1880 in Spanish Fort, Montague County, Texas.  There, he married Flora Mayfield, daughter of John Mayfield and Minnie Wickliff, on March 16, 1910.   They had two children before Flora's death on January 17, 1919 in Mobeetie, Wheeler County, Texas:

Jim died August 18, 1970, at age 90, in Nocona, Montague Co., TX, and is buried in the Nocona Cemetery.

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Generation No. 3

Charles Alton "Charlie" Brown

Charlie Brown, fourth son of Lycurgus & Emily Brown, was born November 13, 1882 in Spanish Fort, Montague County, Texas.  There, he married Cleo Patra Waldie, daughter of Samuel H. Waldie and Martha Jane Kemp, on March 8, 1905.   They had three children:

Charlie moved his family, along with his brother, Walt, and his family, to Kiowa County, OK about 1911, and then to Lincoln County, NM about 1917, where he obtained land grants.  Thereafter, he moved to Rodeo, Hidalgo County, NM where he worked for the Southern Pacific Railway until his retirement.  After retirement, he and Cleo moved to Artesia, Eddy Co., NM in 1856, where Cleo died.

Charlie, like many Brown descendants, was endowed with a natural musical ability and led the "pickin' and grinnin'" at family reunions.  He seemed to love life and people and always had a ready smile and a joke.   The sun got a little dimmer when he died on March 10, 1964, at age 82.  He is buried in Artesia, Eddy Co., NM next to his wife and daughter.

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Generation No. 3

John Oliver "Ollie" Brown

Ollie Brown, fifth son of Lycurgus & Emily Brown, was born April 20, 1885 in Spanish Fort, Montague County, Texas.   In 1901, at age 16, he moved with his parents to Kiowa County, OK, for the land rush, where they obtained farm land in the land lottery.   On March 10, 1907, he married Leila Mary Lyde, daughter of John Jay Lyde and Julia Mary Watt, in Dill City, Washita Co., OK.  They had 8 children:

Ollie lived and farmed in Kiowa County the rest of his life.  Leila died March 28, 1971.  On January 2, 1974, Ollie married Ada Irene Foley Avard.  Ollie, a pioneer and legend around Kiowa County, died May 27, 1987, at age 102.  He is buried in Rose Cemetery next to Leila and his children.

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Generation No. 3

Lillie Mae Brown

Lillie Brown, third daughter and youngest child or Lycurgus & Emily Brown, was born November 11, 1888 in Spanish Fort, Montague County, Texas.  She married (1) William Earl Marsh and (2) Jefferson Davis Spradling. 

Lillie and William Earl Marsh had the following children:

Lillie and Jefferson Davis Spradling had the following children:

Lillie died February 7, 1978, at age 90, and is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Ardmore, Carter Co., OK.  At the time of her death, she had 17 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

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