Sunday’s Obituary~Death of William Lafayette Brown

The State of Mississippi}
Lauderdale County} To the Honorable Jubal B. Hancock Judge of Probate court Lauderdale County and said county. The petition of Martha Brown & John H. Brown residents of said  county respectfully shows that William Brown late of said County departed this life the 19th August and leaving no will so far as your petitioner knows or believes. That said intestate died possessed of real Estate and about 6 negro slaves and a stock of horses, cattle & hogs, some farming utensils, some debts due him. That your petitioners are the Widow and sone <sic> of said deceased. That beside your petitioner the said deceased left nine other heirs, distributes to wit; Catherine Dear wife of John Dear and Sarah Jane Wife of John Warner, William L., Martha, Almira, Emeline, Margaret, Frances, one an infant not named [Dorothy], children of said deceased. Your petitioner therefore prays that letters of administration may be granted then and they offer Arthur Brown and Thomas Hambrick securities on their bond, John Malone, Isaac Luttles and John Gillespie they name as appraisers and again duly bound your petitioner will ever pray & etc.
                                                                                              Martha Brown
                                                                                             John Brown
Sworn to and subscribed Sept. 12, 1853
            J. B. Hancock, Judge of Probate
Filed 12th Sept. 1853, Recorded 13th Sept. 1853
Benj. L. Parke, Clerk

William Brown was born abt 1807 in Georgia after his parents migrated from Chesterfield, South Carolina. He was a son of John H. Brown and his wife Sarah Rivers. He was a big man and said be be a championship boxer.

He married Martha J. Hamrick on December 25, 1828 in Monroe County, Alabama. They had 10 children; 2 sons and 8 daughters. 

William died on 19 August 1853 in Lauderdale County, Mississippi. He is buried at the Goodwater Cemetery, Meehan, Lauderdale County, Mississippi.

William Lafayette Brown is my 1st cousin 5 times removed. 




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[1] "Mississippi, Probate Records, 1781-1930," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-31039-17777-49?cc=2036959&wc=M7MJ-V6J:344617901,344670201 : accessed 28 Jun 2014), Lauderdale > Probate records 1851-1855 vol D-E > image 136 of 632.