Nathan Washington Brown
Wife Elizabeth Harrison Betty Braddock Father Samuel Jenkins Brown Mother Jane Ann DeMoss Children George Lenard Brown Sr. Ada Brown Samuel Jenkins Brown	Nathan was born on 15 Nov 1853 in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. On 10 May 1877 when Nathan Washington was 23, he married Elizabeth Harrison Betty Braddock, in Fayette County, Texas Nathan was a blacksmith and a farmer. A description of part of the land Nathan owned in Fayette County states: All that certain tract or parcel of land, part of the Jacob Stiffler League and Labor, situated in Fayette County, Texas, on the waters of Peach Creek about 25 miles S.W. from the City of LaGrange, and being a part of a 571 1/4 acre survey made for R. Foley out of said League, and being the same land described in a Partition Deed from N.W. Brown, surviving husband of Bettie H. Brown, to Samuel L. Brown, dated January 29, 1904, filed October 1, 1904, and recorded in Book "76", Page 289 & 290, Deed Records, Fayette County, Texas, and being described by metes and bounds as follows, to-wit. Nathan Washington died in Fayette County, Texas on 6 Oct 1941; he was 87. He is buried in Colony Cemetery, Fayette County, Texas.
Nathan's tombstone at Colony Cemetery, Fayette County, Texas.		Nathan Brown with grandson Woody.

	Betty (Braddock) Brown
Husband Nathan Washington Brown Father Asa Harrison Braddock Mother Nancy Seay Children George Lenard Brown Sr. Ada Brown Samuel Jenkins Brown	Elizabeth Harrison, "Betty," was born on 15 Jan 1856 in Mississippi. According to 2 independent sources recounting family lore, Betty Braddock Brown became pregnant but did not want to have the baby. So she rode and rode on a horse to try to miscarry ending up killing herself and the baby. Another story has her jumping off a barn. Notes in the Braddock family file in the Fayette County Archives indicate that one Braddock sister committed suicide. This may have been Betty. She died in Fayette County, Texas on 26 Apr 1886; she was 30. She is buried in Pine Springs, Fayette County, Texas. She is buried with two children, one an infant, and another, Cora who is four-years-old, likely a niece.
	Betty's tombstone at Pine Springs Cemetery, Fayette County, Texas.