Brown Family of Linwood Place, Ascension Parish, La.
File prepared and submitted by Sherry Sanford.


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Biographical And Historical Memoirs, Vol. I
The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1892

Among the "old time" residences in Ascension parish, La.
is the Linwood place.  It is situated on the east bank
of the Mississippi river, in the upper part of the parish,
and is owned by Mrs. Florence A. Brown and her two sons,
J. Norfleet Brown and John M. Brown, both well known young
men, the elder attending to the planting interest of the
property and the younger, John M. Brown, looking after the
plantation store.  If the large old house could speak it
could discourse of a variety of scenes, both gay and sad,
for many a rebel has seen within its walls, also many
deaths, and much misery, as it was occupied during the
war by federal troops for weeks, in which time they held
"high carnival," destroying all the house and sugar house
contained, the owners being absent.  It still bears the
marks of their sojourn, although thirty years have elapsed
since those days.  The Messrs. Brown are grandsons of the
late J.N. Brown, of Iberville parish, La., a noted and
very wealthy sugar planter forty years ago.  This mother
Mrs. Florence A. Brown is the eldest daughter of the late
W.C.S. Ventress of Ascension parish, La., who was also a
large sugar planter and a member of many well-known
families in both Louisiana and Mississippi, among whom
are the Stewarts, Randolphs and Feltus, etc.