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Frank Brown

Male 1833 - 1913  (79 years)


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  • Name Frank Brown  [1
    Birth 26 Jun 1833  Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Death 27 Jan 1913  Austin, Travis County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Burial Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Notes 
    • 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
    Person ID I28918  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Family Georgiana McLemore,   b. 15 Sep 1834, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 1 Jan 1856  Austin, Travis County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Effie Brown,   b. Abt 1858, Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Jan 1947, Robstown, Nueces County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 89 years)
    Family ID F9346  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 10 Apr 2007 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 26 Jun 1833 - Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1 Jan 1856 - Austin, Travis County, Texas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 27 Jan 1913 - Austin, Travis County, Texas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S33] FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, (http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/), Instead has date of birth as approximatel 1839, Tennessee (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S33] FamilySearch.org, Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, (http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/).