Bio: John F. Brownfield, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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John F. Brownfield is a tiller of the soil who enjoys the reputation of being
progressive and intelligent in his views, and well posted on all public
matters.  He was born on the farm on which he is now residing July 1, 1855,
being a son of John M. and Sarah E. (Simontor) Brownfield, and grandson of
John Brownfield and Felix Simontor.  The parents of John F. were born in
Georgia, and there the father grew to manhood, going afterward to Alabama,
where he was married, his wife having been reared in that State.  After
farming in that State for some six years, he, in 1854, came to Louisiana and
purchased the farm in Claiborne Parish, on which the immediate subject of this
sketch is now residing.  He cleared and improved this plantation, and prior to
the war was the owner of a number of valuable slaves.  He was a soldier of the
Confederate Army during the Rebellion, serving from 1863 until the close of
hostilities, and while in the service showed the pluck, endurance and
determination of his Scotch ancestors.  He was a prominent member of the
Presbyterian Church, and died in September, 1865.  His father was a North
Carolinian.  His widow survives him at this writing, is sixty-three years of
age, but is yet hale and hearty.  John F. Brownfield is the second of four
sons and three daughters, three sons and one daughter now living.  The eldest
son, Henry C., being a man of superior mental endowments, was president of
Homer College, but was taken sick and died while filling that position.  By
profession he was a civil engineer.  John F. Brownfield attended the village
school, and at the age of seventeen years was left in charge of the home farm,
and has continued as its manager ever since, being now its owner.  About 200
acres of land are open, and 100 are under cultivation.  He is one of the best
and thriftiest planters in his ward, and has always been interested in
politics, serving as a delegate to State and parish conventions on different
occasions.  He is a member of the Baptist Church, belongs to the Farmers'
Alliance, and has been president one year in his local order.

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