Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Allen County.

JOHN H. BROWN, born in Allen County, Ky., August 31, 1817, is a son of 
Allsey Brown, a native of North Carolina, who was born about the year 
1790, and who married Nancy Childress, whose parents were North 
Carolinians.  She died in the year 1878 and left nine children, of which 
number John H. is the second.  Allsey Brown was during his life-time a 
successful farmer, and acquired a considerable property.  His death 
occurred in 1864.  He was a son of Drury Brown, who was of Enlish lineae 
and a native of North Carolina, from which State he removed to Kentucky 
in the year 1800; he was a farmer; died in Allen County, Ky.  John B. 
Brown had few advantages of school education, but he improved every 
opportunity for reading, and is well versed in the rules of business and 
the literature of the day.  When he was about twenty-three years of age 
he married Sarah R. Epperson, of Sumner (now Macon) County, Tenn., with 
whom he lived happily for ten years.  She died in 1849, leaving four 
children:  Nancy E., Martha P., Marcus W. and Charles A.  In July, 1850, 
Mr. Brown married his second wife, Letitia Bright, of Allen County, Ky.  
On the 14th of December, 1882, she departed this life, aged sixty-nine 
years.  She left no children of her own; it is said by her friends that 
"she was as good a step-mother as ever lived."  Politically Mr. Brown is 
a Democrat and has served one term in the office of judge of Allen 
County Court, to which office he was elected in 1867.  He is the owner 
of a well kept and well improved farm of 400 acres, lying within three 
miles of the town of Scottsville; during his term in the judicial 
capacity he continued to make his home on the farm, making the trip to 
his office every day on horse-back.  Mr. Brown is a man of strict 
integrity and his judicial acts while in office were above cirticism.  
He is a member of the Methodist Church (South), in which he has for many 
years held the office of steward.  Mrs. Brown is a member of the Baptist 
faith.  Mr. Brown is a Master Mason, and a member of Graham Lodge, No. 
208.

Bright Brown Childress Epperson Graham
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Macon-TN NC Sumner-TN

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