HARALSON COUNTY, GA - BIOS  William J. Brown

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Source: "MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA", Historical and Biographical Sketches,  1896.

WILLIAM J. BROWN, farmer, Buchanan, Haralson Co.,
Ga., son of William 1.and Susan Brown, was born in
Henry county, Ga., in 1852. His paternal
grandfather, Roland Brown, was a farmer, a poor man,
and came from South Carolina to Georgia early in the
present century. His wife was a Miss Dicv Waldrop,
also a native of South Carolina. The parents of our
subject were born in Georgia, and the father was
reared on a farm, but he started in life for himself
as a brakeman on the Georgia railway. He was
promoted to a conductorship on a freight train, and,
saving some money, came to and settled on a farm in
Haralson county in 186o. During the war he served as
captain in the army until the surrender. He also was
elected and served as a 'justice of the inferior
court, and died in 1886. Mr. Brown received a very
limited education, and has followed farming
exclusively. He was married Dec. 23, 1873, to Miss
Nancy Carolina, daughter of Seaborn and Melinda
Caroline McGarity, of Paulding county, Ga.

To them nine children have been born: Carrie Leota,
Willie S., Eva May, Cora Ella, Robert Joseph, Sarah
Udara, Bertie, Agnes Pearl, James Benjamin. Mrs.
Brown is an exemplary member of the Methodist
church. Mr. Brown is a master Mason, one of the most
prosperous farmers in the county, and as a citizen
Commands the respect and esteem of all who know him.