William Wilkes Brown

Brief Life History of William Wilkes

When William Wilkes Brown was born on 2 February 1841, in Giles, Tennessee, United States, his father, Alexander Brown, was 37 and his mother, Lucy S. Morris, was 33. He married Permelia Caroline Garrett on 8 October 1872. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Tippah, Mississippi, United States in 1870 and Beat 3, Benton, Mississippi, United States for about 30 years. He died on 4 July 1923, in Ashland, Benton, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Ashland, Benton, Mississippi, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Wilkes Brown
1841–1923
Permelia Caroline Garrett
1847–1910
Marriage: 8 October 1872
Lester Garrett Brown
1873–1952
Lester G. Brown
1874–1932
Jessie Mae Brown
1875–1947
Daisy Brown
1877–1910

Sources (12)

  • William W Brown, "United States Census, 1920"
  • William Wilkes Brown, "Find A Grave Index"
  • William W Brown in entry for Jessie Mae Gresham, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1846

Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

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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