1. Brown family records including anecdotal correspondence. Compiled by Marvin Ryan. Records taken from the Federal Archives, land records ofWarren Co., TN, Census records of Alabama, Arkansas and Texas, Cope Cemetery, Retta, TX, Secretary of State records of Arkansas, andcorrespondence with James A. Brown. The Brown family records were compiled by Marvin Ryan over a number of years and were collated and filmed by the LDS Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City. They are on two rolls of microfilm., Xerox copy of family group sheet prepared for William Marion Brown prepared by Marvin. Ryan, Genealogical Department, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

2. Ibid., Xerox copy of FGS for William Marion Brown prepared by Marvin Ryan.

3. United States Census Alabama 1850, District 39, p. 296.

4. Silas Claiborne (144-1925) Turnbo, Turnbo Manuscripts. in no series (n.p.: Republished by Conway Arkansas Research, 1987., First published 1904.), Downloaded from the Marion County AL AL GenWeb site at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~armarion/marioncoinfo/turnbo.htm.

5.United States. Bureau of Land Management. Land Patents for the State of Arkansas. Downloaded from the Bureau of Land Management website for Government Land Office Records at: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/.

6. Ibid. Turnbo.

7. Ibid., Letter from Marvin Ryan to Brown descendents, dated August 19, 1977.

8. Ibid. Ryan.

9. Historical Report of Secretary of State [compiled] by C. G. Hall. , 1968, P. 557.

10. Ibid. Ryan.

11. Ibid.

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