2161Aug, 2010
Craig:
My mother was Theora Jean Mauzey Brown. Her info on your site is fairly correct. She always went by Teddy all her life. When she went to the Cole Camp Senior Center they began to call her Teddy Bear as some could not remember Theora or Teddy. Also Orville her father is not the one everyone has found on the web. He was Orville Lester and died in Nov. of 1957 and was born in 1904 in MO and then moved with his folks to Montana . After they died he returned to MO for a short time then became a cowboy cook in Montana. He ran away from his grandparents as they punished him for smoking when he was only chewing grass. Anyway show his birthdate as July 4, 1905 and death of lung cancer in Nov. of 1957. I will find those dates exactly and get them to you but please disconnect him from those 1890 dates. He was the Orville talked about in the 1910 census of MO with James W Mauzey listed as his father. Clinton County, Hardin township, Anna was his mom

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On 8/13/10 9:27 PM, "Teresa and Terry Joyce" <tntjoyce@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear cousin:

   Well, I read the sites and found almost everyone quoting Wanda(?) from MO, especially about the graves under the trees. The last time I was through the trees were still there on a lot to be sold. Hopefully no one buys it for a long time.

   I found some interesting things in Stewart Cty, TN. They have a web site that allows for an interesting mystery. There were 2 Alexander Browns in the Stewart Cty area and one is buried next to his wife in the Brown cemetery .  I have not done the comparison of properties to determine that I am following the correct one, but Alexander was a well to do man with slaves and a large family around 1820 and then begins to sell off everything (or it is taken from him). Lands in Stewart were determined to be Indian lands much earlier. So did he own land, then not allowed to own land , sell it. Why did he not declare himself as Cherokee in earlier Census, or is it just another Alexander Brown.  I am still working on it although I am at the moment caught up in scanning old family photos and putting names on faces. It gets harder as we get farther from the tree. I need to contact my Dad to put some faces and names together and yet he was probably on 8 or less when the pics were taken.

   Jim in one of your queries could be my uncle as he has put together a lot of names and birth certificates. The old Bible in our family was probably ruined by my great uncle when he got old. He was always writing over everything .  If you search for Henry Small Brown you will come upon pictures entered by his great, granddaughter of the family taken sometime in the 30s. It is interesting because Henry has his hair piled on top of his head in a knot as an old man.  The Cherokee line is probably there, it is impossible to prove. My grandfather, General Lee Brown, always hated the summer as he would have to do all the field work while Henry ran off to Indian territory for the summer. 

   Another point.  I decided to follow Alexander once he came to MO and started filing land claims. Searches on Ancestry turned up a record of lands bought in 1830,I believe and right up to 1848. Then in 1850 Margret his wife is listed as head of house (census) and then the land he has is again being claimed by Malissa, and a John, and his other children. I do not have it in front of me but you get the drift. It is hard to go thru all the items, but when just choosing public records, it get narrowed down and Alexander Brown comes up in MO. Maybe you already have this. 

   The Harsbergers are buried in the Hopewell cemetery along with other Browns. The Carters came to MO with the Browns, Johnsons and etc. It is said that Caleb Carter who married Nancy Furgeson did so in an Indian ceremony so therefore he would not be against Indians . But he could have just not liked Hugh F or he someone of his sons was involved. No one knows. It is so wild just 2 miles from the graves, that one can almost see the raiders come up silently out of the creek bottoms and kill him with out a thought. MO was wild during the war. I imagine they were southerns thru and thru since my grandda was named General Lee. I found an old cemetery called ST. John's. I hope to call and find the names buried there.  I have yet to find the grave of Alexander. Have you any clues?  I spoke about 10 years ago to a lady who lived on his old land. The woods behind her held some graves, she said. Alex bought and sold one piece frequently. I asked why. She said a spring  was there and a spring house use to exist on it. She was great. I would love to research those woods but the summer heat and ticks in MO make it almost impossible. People are really friendly at the Browns Corner area of Dade, Lawrence, and Greene counties. I imagine a lot of my relatives still live there. If you ever get back that way, I would love to meet you and take you to all the places. Caleb and Nancy are buried in Prospect Cemetery just almost 5 miles east the way a crow flies. 

   I hope you find this interesting. I hope to put your branch in my tree in the future. Dad says there was one brother that Henry never knew where he went . I wonder if that was your John or Hugh Sterl.  Have a good day. Teresa Brown Joyce