Bio: Samuel F. Brown, 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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Samuel F. Brown has been identified with the progress and development of
Claiborne Parish, La., for many years and is especially well known throughout
this region as a dealer in general merchandise at Haynesville, where he was
born in 1835, being one of fifteen children, all of whom grew to maturity,
with the exception of one.  His brothers and sisters are as follows: Mary A.
(wife of William DeMoss, of Bossier Parish), William W. (who resides in Homer,
La.), Jackson J. (who died in Cleburne, Tex., leaving a family), Abraham N. (a
resident and planter of Haynesville, La.), John L. (also a planter of this
parish), Elizabeth (wife of W. R. Fortson, of Antioch, La.), Thomas M. (a
planter of Ward 3), Julia A. (of Dallas, Tex.), George W. (who died in Monroe,
La., during the war), Isaac N. (a furniture dealer of Arcadia, La.), Andrew J.
(who died when a lad), Charles H. (a resident of Homer, La.), Henry C. (named
by Henry Clay, himself, resides on the old home place in  Ward 7 of this
parish), and Sarah F. (wife of Joseph E. Barrow, of Oklahoma).  The father
Nathaniel Brown, was born in Tennessee in 1804 and was a son of Leonard Brown,
probably a native to Virginia, the latter being a participant in the Black
Hawk War.  Nathaniel came to Claiborne Parish, La., in 1833, from Tennessee,
and located six miles south of Haynesville, where he made a farm on which he
resided until 1840, at which time he located five miles north of Homer, where
he improved a plantation of about 900 acres.  He aided in the founding of
Homer, and reared his family and gave them the advantages of the common
schools.  He has been a member of the Christian Church since 1850, his wife
being also a member, her death occurring in 1882 at the age of seventy-one
years.  Her maiden name was Elizabeth Weakes and she was born in Indiana.  At
the age of twenty-one years Samuel F. Brown began life as a planter, a calling
he followed two years, at which time he lost his right hand and since 1865 has
given his attention successfully to merchandising in Haynesville.  In 1873 his
marriage with Miss Nettie Thomason, of Arizona, was celebrated, but he was
called upon to mourn her death in 1877, she leaving him with three little
children to care for: Arthur L., Annie W. and Nettie M.  His second marriage
was to Miss Mollie O. Thomason, by whom he has two children: James L. and Ruth
Garnet.  Mr. Brown has always been a Democrat, and he and his wife are members
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.

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