Gregg Co. Texas Family Group Sheet for the John Garland BROWN Family =============================================================== SUBMITTED BY: Donna D. Wilson e-mail: ddwilson@columbus.rr.com =============================================================== *********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.html *********************************************** HUSBAND: John Garland BROWN date and place of birth: 10 January 1810 in Buckingham County, Virginia date and place of marriage: 8 December 1835 at Midway Plantation, Albemarle County, Virginia other marriages: Fannie Isabella HUDSON COCK military service: date and place of death: 25 April 1891 in Longview, Gregg, Texas burial: Greenwood Cemetery, Longview, Gregg, Texas father: Garland BROWN mother: Martha Patsy BRANSFORD ........................................................................... WIFE: Frances RODES date and place of birth: 14 December 1814 at Midway Plantation, Albemarle County, Virginia date and place of marriage: 8 December1835 at Midway Plantation, Albemarle County, Virginia date and place of death: 06 September 1864 in Danville, Rusk, Texas burial: Greenwood Cemetery, Longview, Gregg, Texas father: John RODES mother: Francina BROWN ........................................................................... CHILD 1: John William BROWN date and place of birth: 4 November 1836 in Buckingham County, Virginia married: Ella M. GRIFFIN date and place of marriage: about 1868 in Bastrop, Morehouse, Louisiana? date and place of death: 9 July 1905 in Longview, Gregg, Texas burial: Greenwood Cemetery. Longview, Gregg, Texas ........................................................................... CHILD 2: Ada Victoria BROWN date and place of birth: 14 February, 1838 in Buckingham County, Virginia married: Augustus W. FOSCUE date and place of marriage: 15 January 1857 in Danville, Rusk, Texas other marriages: Samuel James WHITE date and place of death: about 1915 in Bonham, Fannin, Texas ........................................................................... CHILD 3: Sidney Frances BROWN date and place of birth: 28 February 1840 in Buckingham County, Virginia married: date and place of marriage: date and place of death: 5 April 1854 in Rusk County, Texas ........................................................................... CHILD 4: Mary Eliza “Mollie” BROWN date and place of birth: 26 November 1842 in Buckingham County, Virginia married: Philip Alston PEGUES date and place of marriage: 17 February 1859 in “Thorn Hill” Rusk County, Texas date and place of death: 1 June 1924 in Gregg, Texas burial: Grace Hill Cemetery, Longview, Gregg, Texas ........................................................................... CHILD 5: Sarah Elizabeth Woods “Woodie” BROWN date and place of birth: 13 October 1844 in Buckingham County, Virginia married: Samuel Mathias WARD date and place of marriage: 16 July 1861 in “Thorn Hill” Rusk County, Texas date and place of death: 4 March 1927 in Houston, Harris, Texas burial: Oakwood Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas ........................................................................... CHILD 6: Virginia Jacintha BROWN date and place of birth: 1 June 1846 in Marshall County, Mississippi married: Young A. DOUGLASS date and place of marriage: 7 December 1865 in Rusk County, Texas date and place of death: 5 February, 1894 in Wills Point, Kaufman, Texas ........................................................................... CHILD 7: Martha Garland “Della” BROWN date and place of birth: 12 June 1848 in Marshall County, Mississippi married: never married date and place of marriage: date and place of death: 4 December 1925 in Dallas, Dallas, Texas ........................................................................... CHILD 8:Robert Garland BROWN date and place of birth: 2 February 1851 in “Thorn Hill” Rusk County, Texas married: Mariah Antoinette “Nettie” FLEWELLEN date and place of marriage: 24 November 1875 in Longview, Gregg, Texas other marriages: Flora Hattie CRUTCHER date and place of death: 6 September 1917 in Longview, Gregg, Texas burial: Greenwood Cemetery, Longview, Gregg, Texas ........................................................................... CHILD 9: Lucy Frances “Lulu” BROWN date and place of birth: 26 February 1857 in “Thorn Hill” Rusk County, Texas married: John Wesley TAYLOR date and place of marriage: 20 November 1877 in Gregg County, Texas other marriages: Charles M. STONE date and place of death: 1925 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas burial: Alamo Masonic Cemetery in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas ........................................................................... SOURCES: Family Bible, diaries and notes of Frances Ward Dake (daughter of Woodie Elizabeth Brown), census records, marriage records, cemetery records and obituaries ........................................................................... NOTES: This Brown family is descended from Benajah Brown and Mary Jarman of Albemarle County, Virginia. John Garland Brown, his family, and his father Garland Brown moved from Buckingham County, Virginia in 1845 to Marshall County, Mississippi. In the fall of 1850 he moved to the property named Thorn Hill in the Frost Thorn Survey of northeastern Rusk County, Texas which later became Gregg County. ===============================================================