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Samuel Jenkins Brown |
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Samuel Jenkins was born on 19 Jan 1813 in Missouri. On 17 Dec 1842 when Samuel Jenkins was 29, he married Jane Ann DeMoss, in Union County, Arkansas. The text of their marriage license reads: "Samuel Brown, 24, to Jane Ann Denoss [sic], 17, both of Claiborne Parish, La., on December 17, 1842 by Richard Wright, JP." Samuel was a Methodist minister and a farmer. He and Jane Ann were the first of this line of Browns to settle in the Colony and Elm Grove areas, near Flatonia, of Fayette County. Descendants still live on the land that Samuel and Jane Ann settled and many descendants live in the area. Samuel is the namesake for the generation-skipping Samuels: his son Nathan named his own son Samuel Jenkins. The son of this Samuel Jenkins, Marvin, named his son Samuel. Samuel Jenkins died on 20 Sep 1879; he was 66. He is buried in Colony Cemetery, in Colony, Fayette County, Texas. A mason symbol is inscribed on his headstone. Samuel Brown was the first person to be buried at Colony
Cemetery, the final resting place of 5 to 6 generations of
his descendants. Descendant Juanita "Polly" Beck, descended
from William Henry Brown, was instrumental in having a state
historical marker placed at Colony Cemetery that recognizes
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Jane Ann (DeMoss) Brown |
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Jane Ann was born on 18 Aug 1826 in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. The 1900 census indicates Jane Ann lived with her son Nathan in that year. Jane Ann died in Colony, Fayette, Texas on 15 May 1908; she was 81. She is buried in Colony, Fayette, Texas. |
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Photo courtesy of Betty Sanders. |
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