Frank Brown

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Name: Frank Brown
Death Date: 27 Jan 1913
Death Place: Austin, Travis, Texas
Gender: Male
Race: w.
Death Age: 74 years
Estimated Birth Date: 1839
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Birthplace: Tenn.
Marital Status: Married
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Cemetery: Oakwood Cem.
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Burial Date: 28 Jan 1913
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Film Number: 2050885
Digital Film Number: 4165765
Image Number: 942
Reference Number: v 5 cn 2420
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976


BROWN, FRANK (1833-1913). Frank Brown, county official, son of John D. and Sarah (Wade) Brown, was born on June 26, 1833, in Nashville, Tennessee. When he was two years old, he came to Texas with his parents, who were settlers in the Sterling C. Robertson colony at Old Nashville. In the winter of 1839-40 the family moved to Washington-on-the-Brazos, where the father died and Frank was carrier boy for the National Register. Mrs. Brown and her five children moved to Austin in 1846. From October 1848 to February 1849 Brown worked in the office of the Western Texian in San Antonio. He married Georgiana McLemore in Austin on January 1, 1856. Their family came to include twelve children, Brown's mother, an invalid sister, and an orphaned niece and nephew. Brown was elected county clerk of Travis County, probably in 1856, and was reelected in 1858 and 1862. He enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private, was honorably discharged as a captain of home guards at the end of the war, and was paroled early in July 1865. The same year he was appointed clerk of the district court and city alderman of Austin. From July 1865 until January 1867 he was associated with James A. Foster as publishers of the Austin Southern Intelligencer.qv Brown was commissioned clerk of the district court in 1866 and later elected to the post. He resigned in 1869, was reappointed, and resigned again the same year. He was clerk of the district court in 1873 and of the county court in 1876 and was reelected for each term through 1892. According to his own statement, in his old age he had served continuously for forty years. After Brown's retirement he compiled his annals of Travis County and the city of Austin. His manuscript is a storehouse of information about the history of the Austin area in the second half of the nineteenth century. He died at Austin at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Henry Hutchings, on January 27, 1913.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Austin American, January 20, 1924. Austin Statesman, October 29, 1899, January 28, 1913. Frank Brown, Annals of Travis County and the City of Austin (MS, Frank Brown Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin). Galveston News, October 8, 1895.

Frances K. Hendricks

Melba Gene Mclemore

Frank married Georgiana McLemore on 1 Jan 1856 in Austin, Travis County, Texas. Georgiana (daughter of Joel H. McLemore and Rhoda Renfro) was born on 15 Sep 1834 in Tennessee; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Effie Brown was born about 1858 in Texas; died on 11 Jan 1947 in Robstown, Nueces County, Texas; was buried in Austin, Travis County, Texas.