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Family Group Record 0073
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Revolutionary War Service 1776-1783
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Husband's Name William Brown
Born: 1756 Place: Bedford County, Virginia
Died: Aft 1840 Place: Pike County, Arkansas (census)
Married: Place:
Father: John Brown
Mother: .......
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Wife's Name Catherine Nave
Born: Place:
Died: Place: Lincoln County, Missouri
Father: John Nave
Mother: Eve .......
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Children
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1. Sex Name
M Gabriel Brown
Born: 1792 Place: Cocke County, Tennessee
Died: Place:
Married: Place:
Spouse: Elizabeth .......
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2. Sex Name
M Joseph Brown
Born: Place: Cocke County, Tennessee
Died: Place:
Married: Place:
Spouse: Polly Hopkins
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3. Sex Name
M Levi Brown
Born: 1796 Place: Cocke County, Tennessee
Died: 1881 Place:
Married: 1829 Place:
Spouse: Mary Oden
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After Revolutionary War (1783) resided in Washington (Cocke) County,
Tennessee; Oglethorpe County, Georgia; Lincoln County, Missouri and Pike
County, Arkansas
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Sources of Information: History of Lincoln County, Missouri, From the
Earliest Time to the Present, (Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co.),
1888, page 512; Revolutionary War Pension File, William Brown, S31563,
National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Census Records: Clark County,
Arkansas 1830; Pike County, Arkansas 1840; Pike County, Arkansas Tax Lists
1834-1840; Abstract of Title Book Prior to 1890.
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Clark County, Arkansas Census 1830
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Schedule of the whole number of persons within the division allotted to
Jacob Barkman.
Head of Household Males Females
Missouri 00 05 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 00 05 10 15 20 30
Township 04 09 14 19 29 39 49 59 69 79 89 04 09 14 19 29 39
Gabriel Brown 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 1
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Pike County, Arkansas Tax Lists 1834-1848
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Brown, Gabriel 1834 Brown, Joseph 1834
Brown, Gabriel 1835 Brown, Joseph 1835
Brown, Gabriel 1836 Brown, Joseph 1836
Brown, Gabriel 1837 Brown, Joseph 1837
Brown, Gabriel 1838 Brown, Joseph 1838
Brown, Gabriel 1840 Brown, Wm. Jnr. 1834
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Pike County, Arkansas Census 1840
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Schecule of the whole number of persons within the division allotted to
Richard L. Wilson.
Head of Household Males Females
Thompson 00 05 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 00 05 10 15 20 30
Township 04 09 14 19 29 39 49 59 69 79 89 04 09 14 19 29 39
Gabriel Brown 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1
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Affidavit of Martha Coker
In the matter of the application of Wm. Brown for a Pension.
State of Arkansas,
Sct.
County of Pike,
Martha Coker of lawful age being produced & sworn, doth depose and say:
that she recollects of hearing the family & the neighborhood in which she
was raised say of William Brown, of the af'd (aforesaid) County and State,
being a soldier in the Revolutionary War at the same time his father John
Brown who has been dead some thirty years & his brother Joseph Brown who
lives in Lincoln County, (Missouri) and who (Joseph Brown) is now (as she
is informed) drawing a pension from the general government. She further
deposes that she has never heard it doubted but that the said William was
a Revolutionary soldier of some grade, she don't know what. And further,
this deponent sayeth not.
Martha (her x mark) Coker
Sworn to and subscribed this 2nd day of May, A.D. 1839.
D.S. Dickson, Clerk.
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Affidavit of John Hughes
State of Arkansas,
Sct.
County of Pike,
John Hughes being produced and sworn deposeth and sayeth: that Martha
Coker, who has made the above affidavit, is a creditable person and that
her said affidavit is entitled to credit.
(Signed) John Hughes
Sworn to and subscribed this 2nd day of May, A.D. 1839.
D.S. Dickson, Clerk.
I, David S. Dickson, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Pike County, Arkansas
do hereby certify that the two persons whose names are subscribed to the
above affidavits are both creditable person(s) & that their statements
are entitled to credit.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand as Clerk and affix the seal
of office at Murfreesborough, Pike County, Ark., this 2nd day of May, A.D.
1839.
D.S. Dickson, Clerk.
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Revolutionary War Pension File, William Brown, S31563, National Archives,
Washington, D.C.
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Update 11.25.00 David Kelley 2000 FGR-0073.HTM
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