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Samuel P. Brown

Samuel P. Brown has been identified with the progress and development of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, for many years and is especially well known throughout this region as a dealer in general merchandise at Haynesville, where he was born in 1835, being one of fifteen children, all of whom grew to maturity, with the exception of one. His brothers and sisters are as follows: Mary A. (wife of William De Moss, of Bossier Parish), William W. (who resides in Homer, Louisiana), Jackson J. (who died in Cleburne, Texas, leaving a family), Abraham N. (a resident and planter of Haynesville, Louisiana), John L. (also a planter of this parish), Elizabeth (wife of W. E. Fortson, of Antioch, Louisiana), Thomas M. (a planter of Ward 3), Julia A. (of Dallas, Texas), George W. (who died in Monroe, Louisiana, during the war). Isaac N. (a furniture dealer of Arcadia. Louisiana). Andrew J. (who died when a lad), Charles H. (a resident of Homer, Louisiana), Henry C. named by Henry Clay, himself, resides on the old home place in Ward 7 of this parish, and Sarah F. (wife of Joseph E. Barrow, of Oklahoma).

The father, Nathaniel Brown, was born in Tennessee in 1804 and was a son of Leonard Brown, probably a native of Virginia, the latter being a participant in the Black Hawk War. Nathaniel came to Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, in 1833, from Tennessee, and located six miles south of Haynesville, where he made a farm on which he resided until 1840, at, which time he located five miles north of Homer, where he improved a plantation of about 900 acres. He aided in the founding of Homer, and here reared his family and gave them the advantages of the common schools.

He has been a member of the Christian Church since 1850, his wife being also a member, her death occurring in 1882 at the age of seventy-one years. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Weakes and she was born in Indiana. At the age of twenty-one years Samuel F. Brown, began life as a planter, a calling he followed two years, at which time he lost his right hand and since 1865 has given his attention successfully to merchandising in Haynesville. In 1873 his marriage with Miss Nettie Thomason, of Arizona, was celebrated, but he was called upon to mourn her death in 1877, she leaving him with three little children to care for: Arthur L., Annie W. and Nettie M. His second marriage was to Miss Mollie O. Thomason, by whom he has two children: James L. and Ruth Garnet, Mr. Brown has always been a Democrat, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.

Biographical Sketches| Claiborne Parish

Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, Southern Publishing Company, 1890