A. W. Brown Biography Henderson Co., TX

Athens Weekly Review
Aug. 2, 1901

A. W. Brown

Was born in Habersham county Ga. In 1842. Came to Texas in 1869 and settled in the eastern part of Henderson county near New York.

He enlisted in Co. D, 2nd Georgia regiment in the early part of 1861 and served under Generals Joe Johnson and Robert E. Lee until the surrender at Appomattox.

Mr. Brown was a gallant soldier and a member of the famous Stonewall Jackson Brigade. He participated in all the hard fought battles in the valley of Virginia was wounded nine times during the war. As soon as his wounds healed he would return to his command and report for duty. On one occasion he was cut off from his command being surrounded by twenty of the federal soldiers. He succeeded in making his escape from them but received two severe wounds in his attempt to rejoin his command.

Mr. Brown, since locating in Henderson county, has been a conservative and loyal citizen, a good, industrious farmer, kin and devoted husband and father. He is a man of fine intelligence, quiet and unostentatious, yet fully alive to the best interest of his country.

He is the head of an interesting family, a wife and six children. Some of his children have married and are doing well. Mr. Brown has great faith in the future prosperity of his county and thinks that old Henderson is the garden spot of the world.

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