History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, Missouri  1889, 
published by Goodspeed, Page 723-Cedar County Section

John F. Brown, one of the substantial tillers of the soil and a successful 
stockman of Cedar County, Mo., was born in Dade County, Mo., on the 7th of 
February, 1842, being the eighth of ten sons.  He lived with his parents until 
nineteen years of age, and in September, 1862, enlisted in Company A, Sixth 
Missouri Cavalry, U.S.A., and served until August, 1865, being a participant in 
several important battles.  He received a gunshot in the left side, and after the 
close of the war, returned to Cedar County, where he has since made his home, 
having been a resident of his present farm of 200 acres since 1879; he is the 
owner of 160 acres in Barton County.  He is a member of the G.A.R.,  and in 
1872 was elected assessor Cedar County, by the Republican party, being re-
elected t the same two years later, and proved an efficient officer.  In 1865 he 
was married to Miss L. F. Firestone, who was born in 1845, her father and 
mother being Virginians, born in 1812 and 1819, and died in Cedar County, Mo., 
in July 1884, and May, 1884, respectively.  Mr. and Mrs. Brown are members of 
the Missionary Baptist Church, and are the parents of seven children: Alfred M., 
Alice V., Mary R., (deceased) John A. and Charles (living), and Roscoe 
(deceased), and Nora V.  Mr. Brown is a son of Alfred and grandson of Andrew 
Brown.  The latter was among the earliest settlers of Lincoln County, Mo., from 
North Carolina, and died there at the age of ninety years.  Alfred Brown was 
born in North Carolina in 1810, and died in Platte County, Mo., in 1852, having 
been engaged in farming and tanning.  When a young man he left Lincoln 
County and went to Polk County, where he married Miss Lucy Thompson, who 
was born in Kentucky in 1812.  She died in Cedar County, Mo., on the 10th of 
February, 1887. 

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