History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,

Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p.

727.



ORVILLE O. BROWN, born June 10, 1817, in Bullitt County, Ky., was a son

of Swepston and Jane (Whittledge) Brown, natives of Prince William

County, Va., who settled in Bullitt County at an early date, where they

were married in 1803.  His mother died when he was young; his father

died in 1843, at the house of his son, Orville, where he was living at

that time.  There was a family of ten children, five now living.  When

seventeen years of age Orville went to learn the tanner's trade, serving

an apprenticeship of four years and three months.  He then went to

Louisville and worked at his trade three years, when he returned to

Bullitt County and went to work at the carpenter's trade.  In 1853 he

came to Daviess County and located in Murray Precinct.  That fall he

bought a farm, consisting of forty-one acres, where he still resides,

though he now owns but five acres, having sold the rest.  He has worked

at the carpenter's trade a portion of the time for twenty years and has

built some of the best houses in this neighborhod.  In December, 1873,

he opened a general store at his place, where he is still doing a good

business.  He has acted in the interests of the people of this precinct

in connection with the O. & N. Ry. since the road was built, and since

October, 1882, has been the local agent of the road.  He has been a

member of the Christian church sixteen years.  He was married in 1841 to

Clarissa Trunnell, of Bullitt County, who died March 24, 1856, leaving

four children, the youngest six weeks old.  Previous to her death Mr.

Brown had been sick two years and had spent the most of his property. 

Oct. 22, 1873, Mr. Brown married Mrs. Mary J. Gentry, of Hardin County,

Ky., a daughter of Amos Hicks.



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