Prince Brown

b. circa 13 May 1891, d. 10 June 1958
  • Prince Brown was born circa 13 May 1891 in Slayden, Gonzales County, Texas.
  • Prince Brown registered for the draft on 5 June 1917 in DeWitt County, Texas, while married and living in Cuero, employed there as a farmer.
  • He married Clara E. Parks, daughter of Edward Parks and Mary Franklin.
  • He officially witnessed the death of Julius Fletcher Brown on 9 April 1924 in Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas.
  • Prince Brown and Clara E. Parks appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in DeWitt County, Texas, at Cuero & Clinton Road. Other members of the household included Sarah Mae Tormes?, Julia Mae Brown and North Dakota Brown.
  • He was employed as a road laborer, according to the 1930 census.
  • He was employed by the WPA at odd jobs, according to the 1940 census.
  • Prince Brown died on 10 June 1958 in Fort Sam Houston, Bexar County, Texas, at Brooke Army Hospital.
  • He was interred at County Cemetery, Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas. Application for military headstone by Dorothy Brown Taylor, 9 June 1959, for Hillside Cemetery, but apparently his marker is in DeWitt County Cemetery (and also there is a Find A Grave memorial posted for him at Woodman Cemetery).
  • The following appeared on 25 October 2001 in The Victoria Advocate: (San Antonio) North Dakota ''Baby Boy'' Brown, 71, of San Antonio and formerly of Cuero, died Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2001.
         He was born Sept. 9, 1930, in Cuero, to the late Prince and Clara Parks Brown. He was a member of Little Zion Baptist Church in Cuero.
         Survivors: wife, Mary Louise Edwards Brown; daughter, Mary Louise Brown Khatib of San Antonio; sisters, Sarah M. Robinson of Bishop, Julia M. Scurlock of Del Rio, Dorothy Taylor of Cuero and Clara B. Cooper of San Bernadino, Calif; brother, Johnnie L. Brown of Itasca; and grandchildren.
         Preceded in death by: parents; and brother, Julius Fletcher Brown.
         Services will be 11:30 a.m. Friday at Mount Arriha Baptist Church in San Antonio, the Rev. Jimmy L. Powell Sr. officiating.
         Burial will be at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. Carter-Taylor-Williams Mortuary, San Antonio, 210-227-7311.
  • Last Edited: 1 Apr 2017

Family: Clara E. Parks b. 6 August 1899, d. 14 June 1983