JOHN H. BROWN --1897
[JOHN HANNAH BROWN]
Mr. Brown was born in Arkansas in 1872. He came to Hamilton with a
small capital and bought 160 acres of land in the Blue Ridge Community for
$2 and acre. Before many years his holdings increased to 723 acres. He
farmed 250 acres and raised high-bred Holstein cattle and Berkshire hogs.
Mr. Brown is still living (1930) in the Blue Ridge community.
[Mr. Brown donated land for the Blue
Ridge Baptist Church, the Blue
Ridge Cemeteries (Blue Ridge-West Portion, Blue Ridge-north of the
church, and Powell-Brown),
and the Blue
Ridge School #22. For decades he taught the men’s Sunday School
class in the Blue Ridge Baptist Church in which he never held membership.]
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HAMILTON COUNTY NEWS --Vol. 8, No.10
THE CARLTON CITIZEN --Vol. 30, No. 23
Hamilton County, TX
Friday, June 24, 1938