Carroll County GaArchives Biographies.....Brown, S.J. 1842 - uk
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Author: MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA
S J. BROWN, ordinary of Carroll county, Carrollton, Ga., son of Samuel and
Ruth T. (Brooks) Brown, was born in Newton county, Ga., in 1842. His 
grandfather, Burrell Brown, came to Georgia late in the last century and 
settled in the woods. Mr. Brown's father was born in Burke county, Ga., in 
1800. After receiving his education he taught school a number of years himself, 
finally settling on some lands in the woods in Newton county, living alone and 
working hard to open a farm. In 1836 he married his wife, a daughter of Terrell 
Brooks, and reared a family of nine children. In 1854 he removed to Carroll 
county, where the future ordinary took his lessons in and enjoyed the beauties 
and facilities of pioneer life. Judge Brown was reared on the farm, and 
attended the common county schools. In 1861 he enlisted in Company B, Capt. 
Charles A. McDaniel, Cobb's legion, Gen. T. D. R. Cobb, and participated in 
many important battles; Dam-No. 1 on the Peninsula, in April; 1862; the retreat 
toward Richmond; in the seven days' fight, Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862; 
Chancellorsville, May 1, 1863, when he was wounded in making a charge on the 
enemy's breastworks, and returned home in June. Although disabled by the loss 
of the use of his arm, he determined to return to the army and to his company, 
and as he could do nothing else he carried water and waited on the sick and 
wounded, exhibiting a patriotic, self-sacrificing disposition very rare. After 
his return he participated in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, 
Hanover Junction, Cold Harbor, Petersburg and several other battles, remaining 
in the field until July, 1864, when he was retired on account of disabilities. 
After the war he attended Bowdon College, remaining from 1867 until 1871, and 
then he taught school until 1875. In 1876 he was elected county school 
commissioner, and held the office eight years. From 1881 to 1884 he taught 
school again. In 1885, he was elected ordinary of the county, and has held the 
office continuously since. Judge Brown was married Jan. 10, 1871, to Miss 
Charlotte C., born in Lee county, Ala., a daughter of W. T. and Ann (Stringer) 
Colguitt, by whom he has had eight children: Ruth, Belle, Mary Lee, He1en, 
George c., Samuel D., Mattie and Lamar Judge Brown is a Primitive,	and his 
wife a Missionary Baptist. He has made an upright, faithful officer, is 
esteemed by everybody, and will probably hold the office as long as he wants it.



Additional Comments:
“MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA”, Historical and Biographical Sketches
by S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., Published in 1896.  Transcribed by Elizabeth Robertson 
July 2004.


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