Biography of Abraham Brown - Craighead Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.

page 322

Abraham Brown, farmer and stock raiser of Maumelle Township, is a son
of David Brown, a native of North Carolina, and was born in Haywood
County, N. C., October 6, 1832. The father was reared in his native
State and married Rhoda Chastine, a native of South Carolina. After his
marriage he moved to Georgia, where he engaged in both farming and
blacksmithing for a number of years. In 1858 he came to Arkansas,
locating on Crowley's Ridge, in Poinsett County, where he resided until
his death, in August, 1858. He had lost his wife in 1850 and had
married a second time. Abraham Brown grew to manhood in Georgia, and
until his father's death remained with him. After his death he went to
Jonesboro and ran a horse-mill (that was some time before the existence
of the town), and also engaged in farming for two years. September 17,
1861, he entered the Confederate army under Col. Marsh Walker and
served until the close of the war, when he surrendered at Wittsburgh,
in May, 1865. He was second sergeant and was in several engagements,
among them New Madrid, Mo., and Island No. 10, at the latter of which
places he was taken prisoner, and held five and one-half months at Camp
Butler, Ill. He was exchanged at Vicksburg, and was afterward in the
siege at Port Hudson. After the surrender he returned to this county
and soon settled on the place where he now resides. In 1863 he had
purchased forty acres of timbered land, which he then began to clear
and improve. He has 600 acres in one tract and forty in another. He has
cleared ninety acres of rich and valuable land; the remainder is
timbered. March 16, 1865, he was married in this township to Sarah
Thorn, a native of Kentucky, but reared in Arkansas. Her [p.322]
father, Jesse Thorn, was one of the pioneer settlers of Maumelle
Township. Mr. Brown has a family of seven children: Nancy C. (wife of
Guy Winningham), Adella, Newton, Alsa, Abraham, Joseph A. and Silas.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Brown are consistent Christians and members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.