History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 733.
[Nicholas County]  [Carlisle City and Precinct]

WM. H. BROWN, deputy sheriff, P. O. Carlisle, was born near Mt. Olivet
in what was then Nicholas County (now Robertson), April 4, 1844.  His
father, John Brown, was a native of Pennsylvania and came to Nicholas
County about 1830, where he followed farming and carpentering until his
death in 1848.  The mother, Mary Tatman, was a native of Bracken County,
Ky., and a daughter of Vincent and Sarah (Williams) Tatman.  Her death
occurred in 1860 at about the age of forty-seven years.  She had by her
first marriage two sons and one daughter, all of whom are now living:
James E., farming at Mt. Olivet; Bettie, wife of Dr. Riley Wells, who is
practicing his profession at Mt. Olivet; and the subject of this sketch.
Her second marriage was to Mathew Throckmorton, also deceased.  By this
marriage there were three children: George and La Fayette, in Mt. Olivet
and Mathew, in Nicholas County.  Mr. Brown received a district school
education, and has, since his boyhood, devoted the principal part of his
life to farming.  His marriage occurred in 1865 to Matilda J. Linville,
who was born in Bracken, May 25, 1850, to John R. and Mary (Cooper)
Linville, both of whom were natives of Bracken County; he born in 1809;
she in 1830; both are now living in Nicholas County.  Upon the 10th of
October 1862, he enlisted in Company A, 1st Kentucky Mounted Riflemen,
under Capt. Joe Hardin, Col. Zeke Clay and Major John B. Holliday.  He
was engaged in several closely contested battles, among them those of
Murfreesboro, McMinnville, Jonesboro and Farmington, where he was
captured and sent to Camp Morton, where he remained for fifteen months,
when he took the oath of allegiance, and returned home in January 1865.
A short time after entering the service, he was captured at Owingsville,
Ky., but was soon after exchanged and returned to his command at
Abingdon, Va.  In the summer of 1863 he was transferred to Wheeler and
Forrest's Cavalry; was in the forty days' forced march from Knoxville,
through Tennessee and Georgia, also in the seven days' skirmish at
Cleveland, Tenn.  By his marriage he has five children: Nannie, born
March 7, 1866; John, Jan. 20, 1869; James F., Oct. 16, 1871; Hattie L.,
Sept. 5, 1875; and Millie, Jan. 5, 1878.  They are members of the
Christian Church and in politics he is a Democratic.

Brown Tatman Williams Wells Throckmorton Linville Cooper
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Robertson-KY Bracken-KY PA

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