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Charlie C. "Uncle" Brown was born in 1878 in Bowie County, Texas. His father passed away when he was only three years old. His mother tried to keep the seven boys together, but at the age of 12 he went to work and from then on was on his own. In April, 1894 he met Cordelia Elkins in Belton. After a short courtship, they were married on the front porch of the Elkins home on Sunday October 29, 1899.On November 1, 1899 they went with relatives and friends by wagon train to Cloudcroft, N.M., to work in the sawmills. They lived in their wagons. Their first Christmas dinner was cooked on campfire. It consisted of venison soup and bread. About the first of June 1900 they started back to Texas. They were caught in a rain and hail storm, which caused them to cross and recross the Concho River 27 times in one day. They stopped at Voca where they stayed for two years, then moved to Altus, Oklahoma for a few years. In 1908 they moved to Lakeview, Hall County. In October 1914, they moved to Lockney, then in 1916 to Emma. They bought the Little Travis place west of Emma.
Their children all went to school at Emma. They were Roy and Troy (twins). William "Bill" , Jewell, Clifford, Clyde "Cop" and Alton "Boob". Uncle Charlie was on the school board for 12 to 15 years.
They moved to Ralls in 1928, where Uncle Charlie peddled fruit and watermelon. He moved houses and trucked for the public. Uncle Charlie passed away in 1956, Aunt Cordie in 1960. They are both buried in Ralls cemetery.
Source: "Crosby County History Book 1876-1977", Crosby County Historical Commission, ©1977
Transcribed by Cheryl McDonald
Charles C. Brown, 78, retired farmer and trucker, of Ralls, died about 3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, in Crosbyton Clinic Hospital.
Funeral services were held at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Ralls First Baptist Church. Rev. Tommy Allen, pastor, officiated. Burial was in Ralls Cemetery under the direction of Carter Funeral Home.
Brown, who first moved to the South Plains from Hall County in 1915, is survived by his wife, a daughter, Mrs. Parks Benton, Lubbock; six sons, Troy of Ralls, Roy of Big Spring, W.B. of Levelland, Clifford of Sepulveda, Calif., Clyde of Pecos and Buster of San Fernando, Calif., 15 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Ragsdale Davis, Fletcher Stark, Roy Pierot, Walter Williams, Walter Lynch, and O. D. Stephens.
The Crosbyton Review, Thursday, January 31, 1957
Funeral services for Mrs. Cordie Delia Brown, 78, were held at 4 p.m. Sunday in the Ralls First Baptist Church. Rev. Tommy Allen, pastor, officiated, assisted by Douglas Lawyer, minister of the Emma Church of Christ in Ralls.
Mrs. Brown came to Ralls in 1917 from Lockney. She and her husband farmed and later engaged in the trucking business. She died at her home here Friday night.
Burial was in the Ralls Cemetery under the direction of Carter Funeral Home.
Crosbyton Review, May 26, 1960
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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