Henry Marion Brown (1846 - bef. 1945)

Born Jan 1846 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Descendants

Died before 1945 before age 99 in Louisiana, USA

Biography

Henry Marion Brown was born in Charleston, but at the age of 7 weeks, his mother passed away. Henry and his siblings moved to the cotton and indigo plantation owned by their Aunt Mary and her husband Jacob In Orangeburg, South Carolina. Other family members, including Mary and Jake's children, cousins from other aunts and uncles, an aunt, another unmarried uncle, and Jake's mother, all lived there together. Henry and his brother David joined the Edisto Rifles of the Confederate Army when he was 16 (having lied about his age). He served with General Leeat Gettysburg. After the war he married his cousin Rachel Pearson, daughter of Marjorie Pearson. They moved to Louisiana. At the time of his death, Henry was one of the last surviving soldiers from the Confederate Army living in Louisiana.

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Sources

1. ↑ Some info from family. Most from granddaughter Yvonne Theriot's Master thesis on his life story.
2. ↑ Henry Brown's obituary. Newspaper article.

See also:

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6S5-3LC : 14 July 2016), Henry Brown, Liberty, Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district ED 144, sheet 181A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1237; FHL microfilm 1,255,237.

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSPG-658 : 20 January 2015), H M Brown, Ward 5, Bienville, Louisiana, United States; citing sheet 1A, family 4, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,558.

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