Hart County KyArchives Biographies.....Brown, William M. March 6 1822 - unknown
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Author: Kentucky:  A History of the State by Battle - Perrin - Kniffin, 3rd edition 1886.
WILLIAM M. BROWN, of Hammonsville, was born March 6, 1822, on Bacon Creek, in
Hart County, and is the fifth of nine children - four boys and five girls - born
to William M. and Christiana (Yates) Brown. The father was born in August, 1797,
in Halifax County, Va., and came to Mercer (now Boyle) County, Ky., about 1812,
and a year later removed to Hardin (now Hart) County. He was a farmer and a
Baptist preacher and died June 3, 1861. Mrs. Christiana Brown, also a native of
Halifax County, Va., was a daughter of John H. Yates, who was a captain in the
Revolutionary War, and who married Elizabeth Chandler. W. M. Brown, the subject
of this sketch, was reared to farming. November 6, 1845, he married Elizabeth
A., daughter of Jesse and Eliza (Compton) Crouch, and went to farming in Hart
County and LaRue County, but in 1856 settled on his present farm permanently,
although part of his time has been employed in merchandising. Mr. Brown cast his
first presidential vote for Henry Clay, but since the war he has acted with the
Democrats. His wife is a member of the Baptist Church, and his eldest and
youngest brothers are Baptist ministers. The Brown family are long-lived, the
youngest member having died at the age of fifty.



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