Thomas Brown

Thomas Brown

• Thomas Brown was born on 22 April 1752 in Virginia.
• Thomas Brown died on 9 January 1827 at age 74 in Augusta, Alabama, of fever.
• He was interred at the Brown plantation cemetery, Ware's Ferry Road, Montgomery, Alabama, later known as Brown-Oliver Cemetery, and more recently Winfrey Oliver Place Cemetery, next to Eastdale Baptist Church on Burbank Street in Montgomery. 
• The following appeared in The Alabama Journal: Died on the 9th inst., Mr. Thomas Brown. sen., after a protracted illness of intermittent fever for five months, at the residence of his son, Dr. Thomas Brown, in this County, aged 74 years and 9 months. Mr. Brown was among those whose Revolutionary services demand the tribute of gratitude and veneration.
• The following appeared on 20 June 1860 in the Daily Confederation: State of Alabama, Montgomery Co. Special Court of Probate, June 8, 1860. This day came Eliza D. Brown, Administratrix of the estate of Thomas Brown, dec'd, and filed her accounts and vouchers for the annual settlement of said estate, which was examined and ordered to be filed for the inspection of all concerned, and ordered that the 5th day of July, 1860, be set for the hearing of this application.      
  And it is therefore ordered that notice of this application and the day set for the hearing thereof, be given by publication for three successive weeks in the Confederation, a newspaper published in the county of Montgomery, notifying all persons interested to be and appear before a Court to be held on the 5th day of July next, 1860, to show cause, if any, why said accounts should not be stated and allowed. David Campbell, Judge of Probate. June15W3t.
• The following appeared on 20 June 1860 in the Daily Confederation: State of Alabama, Montgomery Co. Special Court of Probate, June 8, 1860. This day came Eliza D. Brown, Administratrix of the estate of Thos. Brown, dec'd, and filed her accounts and vouchers for money laid out and expended for the use and benefit of M. A. Brown, a minor, which was examined and ordered to be filed for the inspection of all concerned, and ordered that the 5th day of July, 1860, be set for the hearing of this application.      
  And it is therefore ordered that notice of this application and the day set for the hearing thereof, be given by publication for three successive weeks in the Confederation, a newspaper published in the county of Montgomery, notifying all persons interested to be and appear before a Court to be held on the 5th day of July next, 1860, to show cause, if any, why said accounts should not be stated and allowed. David Campbell, Judge of Probate. June15W3t.
• The following appeared on 12 January 1947 in The Montgomery Advertiser: (in "The Days of Augusta, Alabama," by Peter A. Brannon): An advertisement dated February 10, 1821, in the Republican, announces that Dr. Thomas Brown "has removed to the town of Augusta in this county where he attends to the practice of medicine." Dr. Brown's dust is in the popularly known "Oliver Cemetery" (though it should be "Brown Cemetery") about five miles out on the Ware's Ferry Road near the old Ledyard property. In that small "half-acre" are some Mitchells, some Woods, as well as the family of Dr. Brown. On Dr. Brown's father's gravestone a lengthy inscription recites his Revolutionary War experience. This old veteran was from Culpepper County, Virginia, and was at King's Mountain with John Sevier and at Yorktown when Lord Cornwallis surrendered. He died at Augusta on January 9, 1827, of fever.
       In 1980, Montgomery Eagle Scout Troop 16 erected a monument at the cemetery, then known then known as the Winfrey Oliver Place Cemetery, naming eight of the individuals: Elizabeth Eason Wood, Leonard Abercrombie, Dr. Thomas Brown, Thomas Brown, Eliza Dixon Hall Brown, Edwin Brewer Brown, Henry Pollard Brown, and Thomas Bolling Brown. In August 2008, the Eagle Scout monument was broken off at its base, lying flat on the ground, and the only other monument remaining in the area was that of Leonard Abercrombie.

• Last Edited: 28 May 2014