LYNCHBURG, VA - CEMETERIES – Dr. James Murray Brown Grave
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The grave of Dr. James Murray Brown:
                  1937 Oct. 19
                  Research made by Susan R. Beardsworth

Cemetery Location:  Presbyterian Cemetery, 2400 block of Grace Street, between 
                    Globe and Ann Streets; just inside of the entrance gate, to 
                    the right side.
                    Lynchburg, Virginia


DATE:

April 23, 1824.

OWNERS:

City of Lynchburg, Virginia.

DESCRIPTION:

The inscription on the simple marker reads as follows:

This stone marks the first grave in Presbyterian Cemetery
Dr. James Brown
Who died April 23, 1824
Erected by the Cemetery Trustees – 1931

Close by this marker is a flat stone with the following:

Thomas R. Brown
Died August 20, 1833


HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Dr. James Murray Brown came from Scotland to Virginia; settled in New Glasgow, 
Amherst County, and established his home called “Caperdown”, which stood near by 
that of his friend, Hon. David S. Garland, whose house is still standing.

Dr. Brown was a physician at the University of Edinburgh, where his younger 
brother, Dr. Thomas Brown held the chair of Moral Philosophy; he was the 
successor of Dugald Stewart, and the predecessor of the great Wilson.  This 
family of Browns of the Castle of Carlswith, descend from the Murdochs of 
Cumlodon, and date from the time of the Bruces; they came from Normandy with 
William the Conquerer, 1806.

Dr. James Brown was the father of Dr. John Brown, also educated in Edinburgh; 
later moved to Charlotte Court House.  Thomas R. Brown was a lawyer, the second 
son of Dr. James Brown.  He married a Miss Coleman of Orange or Caroline County.

Dr. James Brown was the physician of William Cabell of Union Hill, and many 
others of the prominent families of that section.  New Glasgow was the county 
seat, and was at that time the “center of culture and learning”.

The writer had the pleasure of taking these notes from the family memoirs of the 
Robertson family of Amherst Court House, who also have a very beautiful framed 
photograph of Dr. Thomas Brown above mentioned, and of Sarah Brown (Robertson) 
daughter of the above Dr. James Brown, from whom they descend.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

All information as to family descent and position in Scotland taken from the 
family data, memoirs, diary, and portraits in the home of Miss Jean Robertson, 
Amherst Courthouse, Virginia, who is a direct descendant, her mother was Sarah 
Brown Robertson, daughter of Dr. James Brown.

See sketches of Lynchburg by Cabell, Jones Library, Lynchburg, Virginia

Cabells and their Kin, Dr. Alexander Brown.

Tombstone Inscriptions

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