Sept 18, 2011 - BROWN FAMILY UPDATE -- October 8-9, 2011 Reunion Plans

(Originally posted on September 18, 2011 and 
transferred to this site for archiving}.


Ken Brown
Springfield, MO

Plans for the two-barreled Saturday-Sunday October Oklahoma reunions are now complete:

JESSE G. BROWN’s descendants—Saturday, October 8

Uncle Doc Brown’s daughter, Pat Lewison, will be our hostess for our family gathering at 3 p.m., Saturday, October 8 at Evangelistic Temple Church, 5345 So. Peoria Avenue, in Tulsa.  The Ozark Uncle (that’s me) is the Saturday’s reunion’s organizer and contact person.  union, and let me hear from every one of you with (a) an RSVP as to whether you or not you can attend, and (b) if you can’t attend, take time to send me with a family message you’d like distributed at the reunion. Again, descendants of Isaac Brown are invited to this gathering, and several may do so because they still live right in that area.  Click here to view and download the flyer at the left.

Rev.  ISAAC BROWN’S descendants—Sunday, October 9

Shirley Washburn of Quinlan and Judy Jordan of Nowata have organized a reunion in Quinlan (located northwest of Oklahoma City in Woodward County).  Shirley and Judy have scheduled the reunion for 12:00 noon on SUNDAY, October 9, 2011.  Note: Descendants of Jesse G. are invited to this reunion as well.  Click here to view the download flyer at the right.  The phone numbers of Shirley and Judy are on the attached flyer, and I know they would love to hear from you about your plans.

BROWN FAMILY HISTORY

In the 1830s, Lyhue and Betsy (Hall) Brown settled near the banks of Bryant Creek in Douglas County, MO.  The following four children were born in the Brown cabin at that place—George W., Sarah Ann, Jesse G., and Isaac.  All three boys served in the Civil War mostly with the Union's Missouri Home Guards for Douglas County.   After the war ended, George and Jesse put down roots south of the county's seat, Ava.

At present, Brown family historian, Laura Lee Moncrief, continues in an effort to find descendants of the oldest boy, George W., who died in Douglas County in 1882. 

Jesse G. Brown's children generally raised their families in Douglas County.  One of Jesse G.'s sons, James "Uncle Jim" Lihu Brown, farmed south of Ava all his life and raised a family of 12 children with his wife, Amanda "Aunt Mel" Morris.  Well, four of the couple's sons migrated to the Bartlesville area of Oklahoma--Louis "Doc" Brown, and his brothers, Everett, Charles and LeRoy Brown.  Doc, Charles and LeRoy were prominent car dealers in the area from the 1940s and into the 1970s.

Isaac Brown headed into Taney County, MO after the war where he married Caroline Morgan--they lived near a little village east of Forsyth called Hilda.  Isaac became a leader in the relatively new General Baptist church of Pilgrim's Rest and then moved his family first to the area of present-day Nowata County, OK and then further west to present-day Woodward County in northwest Oklahoma, where he was a homesteader near the village of Quinlan OK.  He has many descendants still living in those two counties--Nowata and Woodward.  He was called "Rev." Isaac Brown or "Elder" Isaac Brown by the hundreds of early Oklahomans who knew him.

  

BROWN HISTORY BOOK

Laura Moncrief has released her 2011 revision of the SQUIRE-BROWN-BURTON family history.  The 220-page books sell for only $30--both at the reunions and online at WWW.LULU.COM.

WHO IS IN THE SQUIRE-BROWN-BURTON BOOK? -- Laura's book will provide the earliest records she has been able to find regarding our common ancestor, Lyhue/Elihu and Elizabeth "Betsy" (Hall) Brown who came with the first white settlers to present-day Douglas County in the 1830s.  Next, the book will cover all she's been able to find about Lyhue and Betsy's four children: George W., Sarah Ann, Jesse G. and Isaac.  The third and fourth generations will cover all the children and grandchildren of these four Brown children just listed.  For example, this means that information on my father, James Orville "Jake" Brown, is provided since he is a grandchild of Jesse G. Brown, but does not include anything about me.  There are literally hundreds of us descendants from old Lyhue and Elizabeth (Betsy), and that is why it's more important than ever for us to keep in touch with each other.