Texas Family Group Sheet for the John Garland BROWN Family *********************************************** Copyright Donna D. Wilson. All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: Donna D. Wilson Email address: Husband: John Garland BROWN Birthdate: 10 January 1810 Birthplace: Buckingham County, Virginia Death date: 25 April 1891 Place of death: Longview, Gregg, Texas Burial: Greenwood Cemetery, Longview, Gregg, Texas Father: Garland BROWN Mother: Martha Patsy BRANFORD Marriage date: 8 December 1835 Marriage place: Midway Plantation, Albemarle County, Virginia Wife: Frances RODES Birthdate: 14 December 1814 Birthplace: Midway Plantation, Albemarle County, Virginia Death date: 6 September 1864 Place of death: Danville, Rusk, Texas Burial: Greenwood Cemetery, Longview, Gregg, Texas Father: John RODES Mother: Francina BROWN CHILDREN Child No. 1: John William BROWN Sex: M Birthdate: 4 November 1836 Birthplace: Buckingham County, Virginia Death date: 9 July 1905 Place of death: Longview, Gregg, Texas Burial: Greenwood Cemetery, Longview, Gregg, Texas Marriage date: about 1868 Marriage place: Bastrop, Morehouse, Louisiana? Spouse's name: Ella M. GRIFFIN Child No. 2: Ada Victoria BROWN Sex: F Birthdate: 14 February 1838 Birthplace: Buckingham County, Virginia Death date: 8 April 1911 Place of death: Bonham, Fannin, Texas Burial: Oakwood Cemetery, Jefferson, Marion, Texas Marriage date: (1) 15 January 1857; (2) about 1880 Marriage place: Danville, Rusk, Texas Spouse's name: (1) Augustus W. FOSCUE (2) Samuel James WHITE Child No. 3: Sidney Frances BROWN Sex: F Birthdate: 28 February 1840 Birthplace: Buckingham County, Virginia Death date: 5 April 1854 Place of death: Rusk County, Texas Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 4: Mary Eliza "Mollie" BROWN Sex: F Birthdate: 26 November 1842 Birthplace: Buckingham County, Virginia Death date: 1 June 1924 Place of death: Longview, Gregg, Texas Burial: Grace Hill Cemetery, Longview, Gregg, Texas Marriage date: 17 February 1859 Marriage place: "Thorn Hill", Rusk County, Texas Spouse's name: Philip Alston PEGUES Child No. 5: Sarah Elizabeth Woods "Woodie" BROWN Sex: F Birthdate: 13 October 1844 Birthplace: Buckingham County, Virginia Death date: 4 March 1927 Place of death: Houston, Harris, Texas Marriage date: 16 July 1861 Burial: Oakwood Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas Marriage place: "Thorn Hill", Rusk County, Texas Spouse's name: Samuel Mathias WARD Child No. 6: Virginia Jacintha "Tunie" BROWN Sex: F Birthdate: 1 June 1846 Birthplace: Marshall County, Mississippi Death date: 5 February 1894 Place of death: Wills Point, Van Zandt, Texas Burial: White Rose Cemetery, Wills Point, Van Zandt, Texas Marriage date: 7 December 1865 Marriage place: Rusk County, Texas Spouse's name: Young Alfred DOUGLASS Child No. 7: Martha Garland "Della" BROWN Sex: F Birthdate: 12 June 1848 Birthplace: Marshall County, Mississippi Death date: 4 December 1925 Place of death: Dallas, Dallas, Texas Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 8: Robert Garland BROWN Sex: M Birthdate: 2 February 1851 Birthplace: "Thorn Hill", Rusk County, Texas Death date: 6 September, 1917 Place of death: Longview, Gregg, Texas Burial: Greenwood Cemetery, Longview, Gregg, Texas Marriage date: (1) 24 November 1875; (2) 21 February 1881 Marriage place: Longview, Gregg, Texas Spouse's name: (1) Mariah Antoinette "Nettie" FLEWELLLEN (2) Flora Hattie CRUTCHER Child No. 9: Lucy Frances "Lulu" BROWN Sex: F Birthdate: 26 February 1857 Birthplace: "Thorn Hill", Rusk County, Texas Death date: 1925 Place of death: San Antonio, Bexar, Texas Burial: Alamo Masonic Cemetery, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas Marriage date: (1) 20 November 1877; (2) 19 January, 1887 Marriage place: Gregg County, Texas Spouse's name: (1) John Wesley TAYLOR (2) Charles M. STONE Documentation: Family Bible, diaries and notes of Frances Ward Dake (daughter of Woodie Elizabeth Brown Ward), census records, marriage records, cemetery records and obituaries. This Brown family is descended from Benajah Brown and Mary Jarman of Brown's Cove, 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 called Thorn Hill in the Frost Thorn Survey of northeastern Rusk County, Texas which became Gregg County in 1873.