John B. Brown/Mrs. Lucretia (Boyd) (Edgington)
                  Desha County, Arkansas

JOHN B. BROWN. In the early settlement of the State of Pennsylvania,
among the families who were closely identified with its material
affairs, and associated with its progress and development, were the
Browns, who were of German origin. A respected representative of this
family, to be found in Desha County, Ark., is the subject of this
sketch, who was born in Franklin County, Penn., November 30,1846, being
a son of Jacob S. and Jane (Brotherton) Brown, also natives of that
county and State, the former born in 1816. They died in their native
State, the father passing from life in 1872, and the mother in 1850. To
them a family of two sons and two daughters was born, only one son and
one daughter now living, of whom John B. is the eldest. Emma J. resides
at Chambersburg, Penn. Those deceased are: J. Porter (who was killed by
the Indians, on the plains, in 1865), Florence (who was the wife of
George J. Baisley, of Franklin County, Penn.). John B. Brown remained in
Franklin County, Penn., until nineteen years of age, receiving a common
school education, and at the age of twenty years began life for himself
at sawmilling, and was afterward in the transfer business between St.
Louis and East St. Louis, and afterward followed merchandising in the
former city. In 1869 he came South, and settled in Desha County, Ark.,
at the mouth of the Arkansas River, and here was married on January
2,1878, to MRS LUCRETIA EDGINGTON, widow of Alfred A. Edgington, who
died in Desha County, on January 10, 1873. MRS
BROWN is a native of Todd County, Ky., and is a daughter of GEORGE W.
and SUSAN (STARK) BOYD, who settled in Jefferson County, Ark., in 1850,
the father dying at Pine Bluff six years later, and the mother at the
same place in 1859. They left a family of six sons and four daughters,
of whom Mrs Brown is the ninth child and youngest daughter. She was the
mother of three sons and three daughters by her first husband, the names
of those living being as follows: Jilson P., Hunter S., Desha F., and
Alfred Lucretia (a daughter). Those deceased are Maud S. and Newton. Mr.
Brown's success in his farming operations is well merited, and having
given this occupation his attention the greater portion of his life, he
is now the owner of a fine farm of about 400 acres, partly cultivated,
it being well adapted to the raising of cotton and corn, and he also
gives much attention to the stock business. He is a Democrat in
politics, has been sheriff of Desha County, and has had charge of the
sheriff's business in the Watson District of the county. Socially, he is
a member of the K. of H.  Mrs. Brown is of Irish descent, and traces her
ancestry back to the early colonists of Virginia.

Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas,
Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1890
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