James Brown

   JAMES BROWN WAS BORN IN NORTH CAROLINA. HE MARRIED AGNES BISHOP, BORN IN TENNESSEE. AGNES WAS THE DAUGHTER OF JOSEPH MASON BISHOP (BORN 1790-1800) AND MARY SUSANNA BISHOP, WHO WERE FIRST COUSINS. JOSEPH MASON BISHOP'S FATHER WAS MASON BISHOP

(WIFE ANN). MARY SUSANNA BISHOP'S PARENTS WERE JOSHUA BISHOP (BROTHER OF MASON BISHOP) AND ELIZABETH.
JAMES AND AGNES (BISHOP) BROWN'S FIRST CHILD WAS BORN IN ALABAMA 1830c (JEFFERSON COUNTY, ALABAMA CENSUS #177,180). THEIR SECOND CHILD WAS BORN 1831c , IN TENNESSEE.
BY 1840 JAMES BROWN AND JOSEPH MASON BISHOP (B. 1790-1800) WERE IN TISHOMINGO COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, (CENSUS #215) WHERE THEY REMAINED THROUGH THE 1850 CENSUS (PAGE 28,#371). JAMES BROWN'S FAMILY CENSUS ENTRY INCLUDED 80 YEAR OLD THOMAS MOODY
(BORN IN N.C.), WHOSE RELATIONSHIP TO JAMES BROWN IS UNKNOWN.
AGNES AND JAMES BROWN'S SON JAMES JACKSON BROWN MARRIED NANCY JANE GLIDEWELL IN 1858, IN RANDOLPH COUNTY, ARKANSAS. BOTH BROWN AND GLIDEWELL FAMILIES APPEAR IN THE 1860 DAVIDSON TOWNSHIP (NO.'S 308,318), RANDOLPH COUNTY, ARKANSAS. BY THE 1870
CENSUS (PAGE 57) LIST AGNUS BROWN AS A 65 YEAR OLD WIDOW IN LITTLE BLACK TOWNSHIP, RANDOLPH COUNTY, ARKANSAS.
1880 RANDOLPH CENSUS (ELEVENPOINTS TOWNSHIP, ID. 156, PAGE 23) LIST AGNUS BROWN (AGE 65,B. TENNESSEE). AGNUS BROWN'S PARENTS WERE BOTH BORN IN TENNESSEE. GRANDDAUGHTER MARY STANLEY (18,B. ARK) LIVES WITH AGNUS BROWN IN 1880. MARY'S FATHER
WAS BORN IN ARKANSAS AND HER MOTHER BORN IN MISSISSIPPI.
F. A. BROWN, WHO DIED WITHOUT A WILL 1858c (RANDOLPH COUNTY, ARKANSAS), MAY BE A BROTHER OF JAMES BROWN. THE FIRST ADMINISTRATOR OF F. A. BROWN'S ESTATE WAS ELIJAH BROWN (IN FEB AND JULY 1859). IN NOVEMBER 1859, LEONIDAS BROWN (24M ALABAMA)
AND MIZILLA BROWN AGE 49, BORN IN TENNESSEE (AS SHOWN IN THE 1860 CENSUS) RELINQUISHED THEIR RIGHT TO JOHN McILROY TO ADMINISTER F. A. BROWN'S ESTATE.

• Residence: Jones, North Carolina, United States - 1810
• Residence: Jefferson, Alabama, United States - 1830
• Residence: Tishomingo, Mississippi, United States - 1840
• Residence: Tishomingo county, Tishomingo, Mississippi, United States - 1850
• Residence: Davidson Township, Randolph, Arkansas, United States - 1860
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