William BROWN

     William BROWN, son of James Madison BROWN and Amanda K. Creamer, was born on 5 May 1878 in Texas.^1,2 He was also known as Billy.

William BROWN appeared on a census, enumerated 4 June 1880, in the household of James Madison BROWN and Amanda K. Creamer in Giddings, Lee County, Texas. He was two-years-old.¹

William BROWN and Amanda K. Creamer were listed in the 1905 city directory for Fort Worth, Texas. Amanda C. Brown, (Widow of James), residence 104 Lexington. William Brown, waiter, was also listed at that address. There was a Miss Annie Brown, waitress at the Patterson House, who alos resided at same. She may have been the daughter.³

William BROWN appeared as head of household on a census enumerated 18 April 1910 in Ward 2, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas. The household was listed as William Brown, 32-years-old, and his 28-year-old wife, Myrtle, born in Texas. This was his second marriage and her first. They had been married two years. Her father was born in Alabama and her mother in Georgia. They had one son, James Brown, 2 months old. Living with them were William's 70-year-old widowed mother, Amanda Brown, and his 17-year-old nephew, Gaylon Stouffer, son of Annie Brown. William was a laborer who worked for a brick mason. He was unemployed and had been without work for 45 weeks during 1909. They lived in his parent's home at 104 Livingston Street, near the corner of Weatherford Street. The home was owned free and clear, without mortgage.⁴

William BROWN died on 5 August 1949 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, at age 71.² He was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Fort Worth, Texas.