William A. BROWN
M, b. 1848, d. 21 May 1878
- Relationship
- 2nd cousin 2 times removed of John Kennedy BROWN Jr.
William A. BROWN, son of John Humphreys BROWN and Jane Ann Allen, was born in 1848 in Arkansas.1 William A. BROWN also went by the name of Billy.
William A. BROWN appeared on a census, enumerated 10 September 1850, in the household of his parents John Humphreys BROWN and Jane Ann Allen in the Milam and Washington District, Williamson County, Texas. He was two years old.2
William A. BROWN appeared on a census, enumerated 1 June 1860, in the household of John Humphreys BROWN in San Saba County, Texas.3
In July 1869 John H. Brown was in charge of a cattle drive west into New Mexico. Actually the drive was made up of three herds which were driven together: Brown's from San Saba, Montgomery's from the Cherokee section, and one belonging to J. B. Harrell and E. Boyett from the Chappel Community. The three herds were kept together as protection against raiders. With Brown were his sons Jim and Billie. There were adventures on this cattle drive but apparently no problems with Indians or rustlers.
William F. Crawford, one of the hands, left a memoir. "[One night] it rained hard and here I saw a sight I had never seen before. The lightening played on the backs and horns of the cattle, and actually I thought I could smell the hair burning, but no cattle were killed." When the herds got to Roswell Brown nearly lost one of his sons in a fracas. "While at Roswell," Crawford recalled, "Billie Brown was standing against the old adobe wall across the room from these two men, when one of them jerked a dirk knife and threw it at him, he jumped, the knife struck in the wall." The herders were back in San Saba by the end of September 1869.4
William A. BROWN appeared on a census, enumerated 2 July 1870, in the household of John Humphreys BROWN and Jane Ann Allen in San Saba, San Saba County, Texas.5
On 29 April 1876 Bill was riding with his brother, Jim Brown, the sheriff of Lee County. As the pair was approaching Jim's home outside Giddings, assassins opened fire. Sheriff Brown was struck by nine buckshot, but survived. The assasins were never identified.
William A. BROWN was a saloon operator in San Saba, San Saba County, Texas. Hard feelings erupted between Bill and city attorney S. S. Brooks over his liquor license, the result being that Bill attempted to shoot Brooks, but was himself shot and killed by Brooks' law partner, Thomas G. T. Kendall. Brooks was later killed in a vendatta by Bill's brother, Jim Brown, on 17 Sep 1878.
William A. BROWN died on 21 May 1878 in San Saba, San Saba County, Texas.6 He was buried in John H. "Shorty" Brown Cemetery.
William A. BROWN appeared on a census, enumerated 10 September 1850, in the household of his parents John Humphreys BROWN and Jane Ann Allen in the Milam and Washington District, Williamson County, Texas. He was two years old.2
William A. BROWN appeared on a census, enumerated 1 June 1860, in the household of John Humphreys BROWN in San Saba County, Texas.3
In July 1869 John H. Brown was in charge of a cattle drive west into New Mexico. Actually the drive was made up of three herds which were driven together: Brown's from San Saba, Montgomery's from the Cherokee section, and one belonging to J. B. Harrell and E. Boyett from the Chappel Community. The three herds were kept together as protection against raiders. With Brown were his sons Jim and Billie. There were adventures on this cattle drive but apparently no problems with Indians or rustlers.
William F. Crawford, one of the hands, left a memoir. "[One night] it rained hard and here I saw a sight I had never seen before. The lightening played on the backs and horns of the cattle, and actually I thought I could smell the hair burning, but no cattle were killed." When the herds got to Roswell Brown nearly lost one of his sons in a fracas. "While at Roswell," Crawford recalled, "Billie Brown was standing against the old adobe wall across the room from these two men, when one of them jerked a dirk knife and threw it at him, he jumped, the knife struck in the wall." The herders were back in San Saba by the end of September 1869.4
William A. BROWN appeared on a census, enumerated 2 July 1870, in the household of John Humphreys BROWN and Jane Ann Allen in San Saba, San Saba County, Texas.5
On 29 April 1876 Bill was riding with his brother, Jim Brown, the sheriff of Lee County. As the pair was approaching Jim's home outside Giddings, assassins opened fire. Sheriff Brown was struck by nine buckshot, but survived. The assasins were never identified.
William A. BROWN was a saloon operator in San Saba, San Saba County, Texas. Hard feelings erupted between Bill and city attorney S. S. Brooks over his liquor license, the result being that Bill attempted to shoot Brooks, but was himself shot and killed by Brooks' law partner, Thomas G. T. Kendall. Brooks was later killed in a vendatta by Bill's brother, Jim Brown, on 17 Sep 1878.
William A. BROWN died on 21 May 1878 in San Saba, San Saba County, Texas.6 He was buried in John H. "Shorty" Brown Cemetery.
Last Edited=6 Nov 2023
Citations
- [S350] 1850 U. S. Census, Williamson County, Texas, John H. Brown household, pg. 341.
- [S350] 1850 U. S. Census, Williamson County, Texas, John H. Brown household No. 160-171, pg. 341.
- [S349] 1860 U. S. Census, San Saba County, Texas, John Brown household, pg. 71.
- [S494] Chuck Parsons, James Madison Brown, pg. 4-5. Source article "Driving Cattle up the Trail" in San Saba Star in 1937.
- [S494] Chuck Parsons, James Madison Brown, pg. 7 & 71, John H. Brown household 16, pg. 7.
- [S494] Chuck Parsons, James Madison Brown, pg. 65.
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