Towns - Union County Georgia Bios G.W. Brown This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Jason Lee Edwards colmayo@msn.com Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/towns.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm George Washington Brown G. W. Brown was born in Haywood County, North Carolina, on May 9, 1829. He was the son of Henry Brown(abt.1810 - November 14, 1845) and Mary Hooper (1810 - after 1880). Sometime before 1845 they moved to Union County where his father died on November 14, 1845. In 1850 George was enumerated in the household of his mother in Union County. They lived in the area that became Towns County. By 1860 he had married a woman named Adaline (1838 - c.1865). They were the parents of one child, John Henry Brown, who was born May 03, 1861, in Towns County. He married Etta Taylor and moved to Cobb County, Georgia, where he died on December 19, 1934. On September 27, 1862 George enlisted as a private in Company G, 65th Georgia Infantry, at Hiawassie. He was captured on September 01, 1864 and was released later that month. Adaline died sometime around 1865 and on January 10, 1867, George married Amanda Jane Russell, the widow of George W. Wood. She was born in Macon County, North Carolina, on September 11, 1830. she was the daughter of John Russell (May 20, 1803 - April 05, 1883) and Nancy Dickey (January 18, 1804 - August 22, 1859). They were the parents of two children: Lonnie Cicero Brown (November 09, 1867 - July 22, 1928) and Nancy Alice Brown Woodring (November 01, 1870 - April 20, 1945). George W. Brown died on November 21, 1889 and is buried at Ivy Mount Cemetery next to his wife who died on January 04, 1904. ======================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for FREE access. ==============