Ray County, Missouri Biographies - Thomas A. Brown (b. 1815)

Source: History of Ray County, Missouri 1881; p.622


THOMAS A. BROWN

Thomas A. Brown was born in Rutherford county, Tennessee, on the 28th day of April, 1815. His
father, Thomas B. Brown, removed to Ray county, Missouri, when Thomas was but fifteen years old,
and the home of the latter has been in this county ever since. In the year 1835, he entered a
farm in section five, township fifty-one, range twenty-eight, and at one began to improve it. He
increased the size of this place by subsequent purchases, until now it consists of some three
hundred acres of rich and valuable land. He also owns a tract of fifty-five acres on Crooked
river. Mr. Brown was married November 22, 1838, to Miss Patsy Crowley, the daughter of Jeremiah
Crowley, Esq., of Ray county. They became the parents of fifteen children, only seven of whom
are still living at the time (April, 1881). Their names follow: William T., Sarah Ann, Jeremiah,
John Franklin, Ellen Catharine, Henry, and Harden Alvin. The names of those dead are: Elizabeth,
Mahala, James Calvin (killed at the siege of Vicksburg, during the civil war), Nancy Frances,
Martha, Joseph Ashley, Thomas B., and an infant son. Mr. Brown took part in the both the
‘Mormon war,’ and the ‘Heatherly war.’ Both himself and Mrs. Brown are members of the Regular
Baptist Church, at New Hope. They joined the church more than thirty-five years ago.


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