Madison-Maury County TN Archives Biographies.....Brown, Also Anthony, Dr. Blackmon H., Also Philip 
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Author: Weston A. Goodspeed's History of Tennessee, Chester County, 1887, pages 862-863:

One of the persons buried in the old Mifflin Cemetery, Dr. Blackmon H. Brown, 

is featured in Weston A. Goodspeed's History of Tennessee, Chester County, 

1887, pages 862-863:

“Dr. B. H. Brown, physician and surgeon of Mifflin, is a son of David W. E. and 

Clarissa (Anthony) Brown, both natives of North Carolina. The father was born 

in 1803 and reared in his native state where he received but a limited 

education. He immigrated to Maury County with his father in the early 

settlement of that county and was married there about 1825. He came to 

Henderson County in 1833 or 1834 and located about ten miles north of Lexington 

where he cultivated the soil until 1866. He then removed to Mifflin and in a 

few years after removed to Mississippi where he died in 1874.”



“The mother was born in North Carolina in 1805 and died in 1861. Her father, 

Philip Anthony, served as a soldier during the Revolutionary war.”



“Our subject was born in Maury County, Tenn., in 1828, was reared at home and 

educated in the common schools of the county. At the age of eighteen he began 

the study of medicine and in 1849 entered the medical department of the 

University of Louisville, Ky. where he graduated in 1850. He immediately began 

the practice of his profession at Pleasant Exchange, in Henderson County, and 

afterward at Red Mound where he was located at the breaking out of the war.”

“He organized a company of sharpshooters of which he was made captain and at 

the organization of the Twenty-seventh Tennessee Regiment, was promoted to the 

rank of lieutenant-colonel. After the battle of Shiloh he was promoted to rank 

of colonel for gallantry. In the same engagement he was considered mortally 

wounded and was discharged from the service. He did not sufficiently recover to 

again enter the ranks.”

“Previous to the war in 1851 he married Miss Elizabeth A. Taylor, daughter of 

A. and F. Taylor and to this union six children, four of whom are living: 

Cornelia S. (Mrs. C. F. Howard), Dr. Willis C., Andrew E. and Jessie E. (Mrs. 

R. C. Cooper). Mrs. Brown was born in North Carolina in 1827 and died in 

January 1874. In February 1875 he married Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, daughter of 

Richard W. and Mary E. Hudson. She died in March 1883.”

“In 1866 the Doctor located at Mifflin where he has since continued his 

practice with his usual energy and success, being now one of the leading 

practitioners of the county. He is a man of good information and has the 

confidence and esteem of all his acquaintances. He is a life-long Democrat and 

cast his first presidential vote for F. Pierce. He is also an active member of 

the Methodist Episcopal Church South.”



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