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James Brown
*James Brown
*James Brown joined 3rd Alabama Cavalry, Company F on 27 August 1863 at the age of about 33. Capt. W. R Cole inducted him as a private, for 12 months. He was listed on the on 31 Oct 1864 Company Muster Roll.
At the end of the war he was in Selma, Alabama and he was paroled there June 1865.
James was born in 1830 in Alabama and died in 1881.
When he was 30 years old he was living in Perry County in 1860. He was working as a farm manager and he was born in Alabama. The nearest post office was in Union Town.
Sadly, in 1860 he had no one living with him. It would have been nice to find out about his family.
One of James decendants sent me an email with the following information.
"James Brown. James (b. ca 1830) was the son of Joseph Brown and Sarah Elizabeth (Holley).
James had three sisters:
1) SARAH ANN (my 2nd gr grandmother) b. ca 1827 who
married Thomas P. Lester
2) Catherine (b. 1 Oct 1832 - d. 3 Dec 1913 Tannin, TX)
who married John B. Blackburn
3) Mary Jane (b. ca 1834) who married Andrew J. Heard
James and his three sisters were all born in Perry County, Alabama. According to family lore, James never married. After his father Joseph died in 1848, his mother Sarah Elizabeth (Holley) Brown married Phillip Aubrey. Elizabeth died in Sept of 1861; her probate records show that her property was divided between her four children: Sarah Brown Lester, Catherine Brown Blackburn, Mary J. Heard, and son James Brown. James was head of household; residing in Marion (1870) with his widowed sister-our Sarah Ann (Brown) Lester and her seven children. My great grandfather (Bryant Brown Lester) was just 17 years old. In 1880 James (age 49) was residing with his other widowed sister Catherine Blackburn and her three children. James was known as "Uncle Jim". In 1881, at age 50, James died at the home of his nephew, Bryant Brown Lester ( my gr. grandfather). Bryant Brown Lester had just married my gr. grandmother, Martha Rosanne Gwin in that year.
Now about James's father: Joseph Brown relocated to Perry County, Alabama from Chesterfield Co., SC with HIS father Sibby Brown just before 1820. Joseph was elected Deputy Sheriff of Perry Co. Nov. 1820 and spent the rest of his life near present day Marion.
Sibby Brown and wife (unk) raised seven children in Perry County: John; JOSEPH; Mary "Polly" who married a Holley; George W. who married Jane Holley; Margaret "Peggy" who married Pinckney Holley; Elizabeth "Betsey" who married Levi Holley; and Robert who married Eliza Welsh.
I believe this Holley line come from the Holley's of Chesterfield Co., SC.
Sibby Brown, along with names like Massey, Jacob Kynard, John Welch, and the Holley's were early pioneers to the newly formed Perry County. Their land was just southest of Marion; Twp 19 Range 8. Sibby died about 1840." quote from BarbaraLee Ward (genealogy@prodigy.net)
Sources
1. 1860 Federal Census, Alabama, Perry County, Woodville, page 99.
2. Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama Confederate Service Cards. Card named James Brown , Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama. Microfilm cards "From an 8 x 5-card file maintained by the Alabama Department of Archives and History from the early 1900s until 1982. As staff came across information related to Alabama individuals during the American Civil War a card was created. Information on individuals exempted from military service or who served in the militia or home guard is included. If new information was discovered from another source, another card was created. Multiple cards for an individual often exist. Sources include muster rolls, governors' correspondence, veterans' censuses, manuscript collections, newspapers and pension records. Names, places and events are often inconsistently spelled."
3. Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama 3 Reg file box Typed copy of Muster roll dated 31 October 1864, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama.
4. BarbaraLee Ward (genealogy@prodigy.net)
If you are a descendant or have stories or memorabilia about this unit contact Susette Cook. susette_cook@hotmail.com susette_cook@hotmail.com
By Susette Cook