Alfred Earl (Abb) Brown, born in 1855, arrived in Coleman County from Robertson County, Texas, in 1876.  (See J. R. Brown).  He married Zenobia Virginia (Aunt Nobe) Wooten, 1866-1949, of Upshur County.  He was a farmer.  To this union were born seven Coleman County children:  Bert, Alfred Earl, Lawrence Lawson (Jack), May, Eula, John Clyde and Lester.  Aunt Nobe, who moved from the farm to Burkett in 1926, also raised a foster daughter, Eunice Marie, abandoned as an infant on a train in Waco.  Earl, Jack, May, Eula and Clyde never moved from Coleman County.

     In Coleman in 1925, John Clyde Brown (1898 - 1960) married Verda Vada Casey (1901). (See William J. Casey).  They had two children; Zenobia Christine (1927) and Mary Imogene (1928-1928).  Clyde went to Howe and Independence schools.  Clyde, with his brother, Bert, operated a restaurant in Burkett prior to World War I.  When Jack and Earl entered the military service in World War I, and Bert went to work in a munitions factory, Clyde had to operate the farm for his mother.  He farmed the Abb Brown farm 3 ½ miles southeast of Burkett on the Pecan Bayou until his death in 1960.  He was active in Burkett community affairs: as a song leader for the Church of Christ, Secretary Treasurer of the Burkett-Adams Cemetery Association, Secretary Treasurer of the Burkett Community Organization, was active in the Wooten Family Reunion organization.  Verda taught at Independence School until it consolidated with Burkett school; teaching at Burkett school when it closed.  She is also an artist, and continues that interest during her retirement in Houston.  The Clyde Browns, their children and grand-children, are members of the Church of Christ.  Zenobia Christine married Clayton Jones Verner (1925-1982) of Ropesville in 1946.  Their children are Clyde Gaylord (1950) and Euna Virginia (1954). Dr. Zenobia Christine (Brown) Verner is a professor at the University of Houston.