Owsley County, Kentucky:         Brown Edwards


Submitted to the KyGenWeb by:  Glenda Flaugher
                               1 July 2001
                               joyfull200@hotmail.com 
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Brown Edwards (b. 2-14-1913 Proctor KY  d. 5-2-1981 Cincinnati, Hamilton Cty 
KY...s/o Fred Edwards and Eva Rowland?...married: Nettie Mae 'Combs'


Brown was born on Feb. 14, 1913 at Proctor, Kentucky. Proctor is in Lee 
County, Kentucky.  It is now a residential suburb with a post office just 
below the forks of the Kentucky River and is across the river from 
Beattyville.  The area may have been settled in the very early 19th century 
by pioneer and Indian fighter Archibald D. McGuire and named for Rev. Joseph 
Proctor (1754-1844), a North Carolina-born Indian fighter turned Methodist 
minister and one of the first permanent settlers of Estill County, Kentucky. 
  The Proctor post office was established on April 4, 1843, with Nathan 
Jacobs, postmaster, and discontinued in 1918. His father, Frederick Edwards 
did not merry his mother, Eva Rowland. Eva raised Brown until she died in 
1916.  (On Browns Social Security application he listed his father as: Fred 
Edwards...and his mother as: Evie Freeman??????)   At this time his 
grandmother, Vashiti Cornett, took care of him and raised him to adulthood.  
His grandmother and her family lived across the road from Kathryn Combs (the 
mother of Nettie Mae Combs).  This is how Brown and Nettie met.  After 
Netties husband died in 1937 she bought a farm in Congleton, Kentucky and 
moved from Hardburley back to Owsley County.  Brown and Nettie met again and 
were married in 1939.  Brown worked on the farm for a while and also was a 
coal miner at Hardburley, Kentucky until they moved to Ohio.  In about 1952 
they moved to Cincinnati, Ohio with Imogene and Buster Sizemore.  Brown 
worked at Sears, Roebuck & Co. on Reading Road for many years.  He retired 
from there.  Him and Nettie at this time still owned the home place of 
Kathryn Combs.  They remodeled the house and spent many wonderful days there 
until Brown got sick.  Brown loved his family as much as he loved life. He 
may not have been my grandfather by blood, but he was my true grandfather, 
and I loved him dearly.  Brown passed away on May 2, 1981 of lung cancer.  
He is buried at Goshen Cemetery on Linton Road in Goshen, Clermont County, 
Ohio.  He is greatly missed.  The following article appeared in the Norwood 
Enterprise:  EDWARDS, Brown, beloved husband of Nettie Edwards, devoted 
father of Dorvan, Dorman and Roscoe Helton, Nadine Gabbard and Imogene 
Sizemore, also leaves eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.  
Saturday, may 2, 1981.  Age 68 years. Residence 2015 Hudson Ave., Norwood.  
Friends may call at the Tredway Funeral Hone, 2131 Cameron Ave., Norwood, 
Monday evening, 5 to 9 PM. Funeral Tuesday, 10:30 AM.  Interment Goshen 
Cemetery, Goshen, Ohio.

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