Brown Family History

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182059412011-04-21T21:08:53.347-07:00Brown Family HistoryThis blog is a transcrition of a book of the History of the Brown family as written by Oral Carl Brown Sr. Born June 19th, 1884, Died in July 1967. Oral was a preacher from a long line of preachers. This book was written in 1962 at the age of 78 as a cronicle of family history and his lifes work for the "Oncoming younger Generation". <a href="http://brownhistory.blogspot.com/2005/10/table-of-contents.html">To **Table Of Contents**</a>Tom Zimmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16479169546281829506noreply@blogger.comBlogger591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18205941.post-1130339189288925232006-12-31T08:05:00.000-08:002006-01-09T19:28:28.313-08:00Introductory Notes on Brown Family's History

Editors Note: With the exception of this blog entry, which is specially time stamped to always appear at the top of the blog, you need to read this history starting with the last entry, moving toward the first entry, to get things in cronological order like you would a book. Or, you can read the articles in the order they appear in the **Table Of Contents**.Additional Notes will be added to this

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Chapter 3Meet My Father, John D. BrownIn writing this chapter I am aware that some of you do not remember meeting him. Some never did meet him. Others did not know him well. Some saw in him an honest, hard working man with a large family, on a small farm with ground impossible to raise more than the bare necessities of life, with mothing for the market. Then there may be some who found fault

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Chapter 2Some Early ReccollectionsAfter a normal birth, in the bed room of the little home described in Chapter 1, on June 19, 1884, Mother and son get along nicely.My first recollection was a few days before my fourth firthday. Mother was busy cutting out some little shirts and knee pants. when they were completed, Mother called me to her sewing machine. She had buttoned the little pants to the

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How It All HappenedChapter 1The Old Home PlaceThe Old Home Place - just to write or think of these words causes a feeling to well up inside that is akin to home sickness. The60 acre farm was not valuble because of the quality of the land; but rather because it was home. The place where a "heap" of living was done by a healthy, wide-awake, active, growing American family.The 1/2 mile long and 1

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Editors Note: I am delaying posting the first tree, because it is graphical, and I have not yet setup my computer to handle graphical data. In addition, while the details of the tree would no doubt be of great interest to geneologists, I am not one, so it is of lesser importance to me. If you have a high level of interest in the geneology part of this book, feel free to contact me and offer

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Study this page. It clarifies (1) the Tree system used, (2) the seeming division between Christian workers in the 19th Century and 20th Century, (3) states main object for writing this history in its present form, (4) why each family does not have a larger write up and tree.Ninteenth Century Christian workers included.1. John Brown (Reverend) and wife, born in 1804. Disciple of Christ.2. John H.

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The Writer of This HistoryThis "History" was conceived, planned, written by the Rev. Oral C. Brown, the fourth Brown minister in a direct line. At this date he is 60 days short of 78 years. Lost his sight April 10th, 1960. With great difficulty and many mistakes he cannot correct, he has hour after hour, days, weeks and months on end, prepared this work.This is a service to the master to assist

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Why the Brown Family History NowTo answer this I will give the following reasons:1. I have drawn or led by the Holy Spirit to do this very thing. for several weeks He has been talking to me and I have been getting information organized to do so.2. This is April 14th, 1962, 158 years since my great grandfather John Brown was born. As you will see as this story unfolds, this is a very important

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The Browns covered in this History are:1. John Brown, Reverend. Born in 1804. He is as far back as our family Bible records, and, of course, all his family, including wife and children.2. Reverent John H. Brown, the oldest son of #1 He was born in 1833, and his wife and children later. But at this point it is necessary to state that he was killed in the Civil War. However, before his

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The Brown Family's History is Dedicated toThe Oncoming younger GenerationsSo They May More fully understand and Appreciate Their Forefathers.Oral Carl Brown, Sr.Back to Table Of Contents

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2005 Table Of Contents Additions Start HereIntroductory Notes on Brown Family's HistoryWhere are we, how did we get here and where are we going? (2005 Publishers Notes)The Brown Family's History (Publishers Original Notes)Presented to Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. CochranOriginal Table Of Contents Starts HereDedicated ToBrowns Covered in This HistoryWhy the Brown Family History Now?The Writer of This

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by your mother Ina Zora Cochran. August 17th, 1963.Editors Note: Inside front cover, note from my grandmother to my uncle Bob.Back to Table Of Contents

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2005 Editor's Note: The following entry contains the notes from the original publisher Lester A. Michel., It is not actually part of the original publication, I found it as a single folded sheet, inserted into the book just before the picture pages. You should also note, that the statements Lester makes about availability of this book in printed form are no longer available. We need to remember

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Debbie and I (Tom Zimmer) were cleaning out our garage yesterday (October 22nd, 2005), and we came across a box of pictures and stuff from early in our marriage and some photo albums and stuff from my uncle Bob (Robert L. Cochran). I sort of took care of uncle Bob the last 10 years of his life. He had Parkinson disease, and the last few years were very hard on Bob. As I am sure most people

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