James Brown Jr. (1780 - 1859)

Born 17 Jun 1780 in Mecklenburg, Virginia, United States

Husband of Frances Goosley — married 9 Dec 1802 in Yorktown, York, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 3 Jan 1859 at age 78 in Richmond, Virginia, United States

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Biography

James was born in 1780, in Mecklenburg, Virginia. He was the son of John Armstead Brown and Anne Geddy (1752-1795).

On 9 Dec 1802, in Yorktown, Virginia, he married Frances Goosley. They settled in Richmond and had 10 children.

1. Ann Elizabeth Ludwell Brown b. 1803 - d. 1872, m. William Reid McCaw
2. Mary Brown
3. William Brown
4. Frances W Brown b. abt. 1803 - d. aft. 1860 census
5. James Brown
6. John Brown
7. Ellen Brown
8. Ludwell Harrison Brown b. 1818 -d. 1859, m. Margaret Cabel McCelland
9. Harriet Brown
10. John Brown

He was an auditor for Virginia for more than forty years.

He died on 1 Jan 1859, in Richmond, resulting from a railway accident at the Richmond station. He was buried at the Shockoe Hill Cemetery.

Sources

• [1] The Cabells and Their Kin: A Memorial Volume of History, Biography, and Genealogy Alexander Brown January 1, 1895 Houghton, Mifflin & Company: Parent, Child page 347, 348

• [2]The History of John Francis Deane Brown and Members of his Family in Virginia, Montana, and California, in Relation to the Harrison, Reade, Cary, Digges and Cabell Families of Colonial America. By: Albertina Brown Parker, daughter of John Francis Deane Brown. Missoula, Montana, 1963.

• "Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6D1D-N61Z : Fri Dec 01 19:46:49 UTC 2023), Entry for James Brozn and Frances Goosley, Dec 1802.

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVH-PRR5 : 13 September 2020), James Brown, ; Burial, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, United States of America, Shockoe Hill Cemetery; citing record ID 5106828, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.