Thomas Jefferson Brown

Brief Life History of Thomas Jefferson

When Thomas Jefferson Brown was born on 23 September 1827, in Tazewell, Virginia, United States, his father, Isaac H Brown, was 44 and his mother, Mary Thompson, was 41. He married Rebecca Gilham A Tucker on 9 May 1849, in Wayne, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Miller Township, Gentry, Missouri, United States for about 20 years. He died on 13 April 1908, in Berlin, Gentry, Missouri, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Berlin Cemetery, Miller Township, Gentry, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Jefferson Brown
1827–1908
Rebecca Gilham A Tucker
1831–1904
Marriage: 9 May 1849
Volney Brown
1850–1939
Margaret Brown
1852–1920
Louisa Brown
1854–about 1884
Thomas Jefferson Brown
1857–1925
Lillian Brown
1860–1875
Rebecca Brown
1863–1933
Ada B Brown
1866–1940
Alice M Brown
1870–1944
Eudora Brown
1873–1933

Sources (6)

  • Thomas J Brown, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Thomas Jefferson Brown, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Thos Brown, "United States Census, 1880"

World Events (8)

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

1832 · Black Hawk War

"The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."

1853

Historical Boundaries: 1853: DuPage, Illinois, United States [Spreads across DuPage and Kane counties]

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, and Irish: generally a nickname referring to the color of the hair or complexion, Middle English br(o)un, from Old English brūn or Old French brun. This word is occasionally found in Old French, Middle English and Old Norse as a personal name or byname (Middle English personal name Brun, Broun, ancient Germanic Bruno, Old English Brūn, or possibly Old Norse Brúnn or Brúni). Brun- was also an ancient Germanic name-forming element. Some instances of Old English Brūn as a personal name may therefore be short forms of compound names such as Brūngar, Brūnwine, etc. As a Scottish and Irish name, it sometimes represents a translation of Gaelic Donn (see below). Brown (including in the senses below) is the fourth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below).

Irish and Scottish: adopted for Ó Duinn (see Dunn ) or for any of the many Irish and Scottish Gaelic names containing the element donn ‘brown-haired’ (also meaning ‘chieftain’), for example Donahue .

Irish: phonetic Anglicization of Mac an Bhreitheamhnaigh; see Breheny .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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