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Notes for ALEXANDER GRAY BROWN:
Mebane, N. C .is 12 miles from Hillsboro, Orange Co. , N. C.
Came to Ky as a boy in 1850 from N. C.
Lived with his brother Robert until he was 25 years old.
Buried
NEAR BAKER SCHOOL HOUSE
CLOSE TO Dixon, KY.
He wanted to serve in the Southern Army but there were no guns for him. He ran "salt" wagon from the Illinois line through Kentucky for the South desperately needed salt. His route was in an area called the "strip", which was populated by southern sympathizers.
As told by Aunt Lennie (Brown) Martell
Some Notes on Grandpa's Life:
Alexander Gray Brown
My father died in the fall before I came to Kentucky with my bother, mother
and sister. My father's name was William Brown. I was born twelve miles from Hillsboro, Orange Co., North Carolina. June 3, 1836.
I came to Kentucky in the fall of 1850 in company with mother, Mary
Morrison Cummings Brown, and sister Margaret Jane Brown, who afterward married Chester Dossett who came out here at the same time, and brother Robert Brown who was older than I. Brother John came with us to Tennessee, and stayed there until the next fall, then came to Poole, Kentucky where he located first.
Brother Dave Brown came one year before I did, and married Mary Thornsberrie- Russell's daughter, the next year after I came.
Bill Dossett, Bill Garrett, Tom Freeland, Bill Hutchinson, Cester Dossett and Margery Hopkins and 6 negro slaves; Nathan Edd, Ellen, Nathan's wife, Mariah Nathan's sister: Juleitt, a little girl; and old Aunt Nancy who had been in the family of Brown since before my father was born. Us children called her mamma, and she would fight for us if she though one tried to run over us.
Bob Brown married Macy Elizabeth Leathers in North Carolina and his son James Lipacomb Durham Brown learned to walk on the way out here.
I was 14 yearsd old when we emigrated to Kentucky. I lived near Mudtown, about 6 or 7 miles from Poole. White Lick Creek emptied into Highland Creek about a mile above Mudtown. I lived between Poole and Mudtown 6 years, then we went to McLean Co. Worked for Bill Halbrooks and Bau MCFarland, came back to Petersburg and cast my first vote for Buchanan- lived at brother Bobs till I married when I was 25 years old.
I married Bill Duncan's daughter, Susan Elizabeth who died in less than a year. The in a little over a year, I married - J. J. Hicks (James Jones Hicks) daughter, Roseanah Hicks. We lived near Jess Anderson Tappa 4 years, then moved within a mile of Jonestand where Bob Gupson lived - stayed there 4 or 5 years then moved near Clay near where Marshall Clark lives. Stayed 1 year, then moved to Hopkins Co., stayed 1 year - then moved 2 or 3 miles of Poole. Stayed 1 year there - then moved to Green Tolley School District, afterward called Baker - when the school house was built in a different place.
These Notes were given to Vida Asher by Grandpa himself.
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