The Brown Family Legacy

BROWN FAMILY HISTORY

The Brown family history traces back to the mid-1800s to Julia Patterson. Julia was born in 1847 and died in December of 1940 at the age of 94.  Since it was the defeat of the South in the Civil War that resulted in abolition of slavery as a result of the Amendment to the Constitution in 1865, it is safe to assume that Julia was born a slave. Julia had a daughter, Anna (better known as Grandma Tish). Grandma Tish was born February 15, 1878 and died May 17, 1959.  

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(Grandma Tish) later married Albert Outlaw and moved from Fayette County, Tennessee to Edmondson, Arkansas. To this union two children were born: Lonzo Outlaw, better known as Turner, and Susie Outlaw (aka Susie Jones). Lonzo Turner was born in 1898 and died June 8, 1965. Susie was born August 7,1900 and died July18, 2000.  Before her death, she was our oldest living relative. 

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Anna Pugh (Grandma Tish) and Siles McCollough had a daughter, Sallie Ann Brown (the mother of the Brown sisters and brothers, the grandmother and the great-great great grandmother of many of us here tonight. Sallie Ann was born March 1, 1892 and died June 10, 1957. Aunt Susie and Sallie Ann were sisters - both are the daughters of Grandma Tish.

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In 1911 Sallie was united in marriage to John Sullivan Lincoln Brown (Papa), who was born January 16, 1886 and died August 11, 1959, exactly two years and two months after Sallie Ann.

To this union was born ten children - seven (7) girls and three (3) boys: Vera, Zora, Clinton, Maline, Lorine, John Ell, Boyd, Anna, Romelia and Velma.