Clay County GA Archives Obituaries Mr. Martin J. Brown 1879 This file contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Lindy Hard" ************************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store this file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/clay.htm Table of Contents page http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Georgia Table of Contents ********************************************************************************** 22 Aug 1879 [The Cuthbert Appeal, Randolph Co, GA newspaper] “About the Browns. Sandersville, GA., Aug. 14th. Editors Telegraph & Messenger: In your historical sketches from Howard district in your issue of to-day, mention is made of one Mr. Martin J. Brown, who is described as a remarkable fighting man. I think that your historian made some mistakes about the date of events in his history. My father lived near Macon and his name was Martin H. Brown. He was six feet seven inches high, was born in Virginia, reared in Jefferson county, Georgia, moved from there to Jones and from Jones to Bibb about 1828 or 1829. I was born in Bibb, September 4, 1831. He went to Southwest Georgia and fought the Indians in 1836, and moved his family to Randolph county in 1837, not to Thomas. His name is mentioned as one of the first settlers of Randolph county in the history of Georgia. He was related to the Hancocks of Virginia, the H. in his name standing for Hancock. His father, Richard Brown, kept a hotel in Louisville, Georgia, when that place was the State Capital. He was a brother of Captain John T. Brown, who was for many years with Hardeman & Sparks of your city. He died in Randolph county in 1858, leaving an estate valued at $60,000, which all perished by the war. He had six sons in the Rebel army at one time, two of whom were killed, the other four are now living and one who was too young to enter the army.-- Two live in Randolph county, one in Texas, one, the writer, in Washington county, and the youngest one in Houston. He left three daughters, one now living in Milledgeville, one in California and the other in Bibb county. Yours, etc. Clement C. Brown. [Note by contributor: I do not research Brown family.]