Brown Family Cemetery

The cemetery is located on private property on the Shelby County and San Augustine County lines off FM Road 353. There are five unknown graves in the cemetery.

Name	Birthdate	Deathdate	Notes
Cathrine Quay Brown	04/12/1842	12/31/1900	Wife of Loverd Bryan Brown - dau of Phineas & Cathrine Q. Polley Barber
Loverd Bryan Brown	09/19/1836	03/21/1911	Husb of Cathrine Q. Barber Brown - son of Martin Hancock Brown
Mary P. Brown	05/12/1865	02/22/1908	Dau of Loverd & Cathrine Brown
Nannie Brown	06/09/1875	12/20/1897	Dau of Loverd & Cathrine Brown
Infant Curry	-	-	Child of William & Della Barton Curry
Infant Curry	-	-	Child of William & Della Barton Curry
James S. "Jim" Curry	08-1852	ca 1931	Husb of Julia Henry Curry - son of Joe & Susan Curry
Julia Henry Curry	02-1855	ca 1935	Wife of Jim Curry -
Ottis Curry	-	-	Son of William & Della Barton Curry
Edith Brown Noble	10/14/1860	12/15/1893	Wife of Sneed Noble - dau of Loverd & Cathrine Barber Brown

Loverd Bryan Brown was born in the county seat town of Cuthbert, Georgia. He was the fourth son of a prominent plantation owner, Martin Hancock Brown. His great-great grandfather, Needham Bryan II, was a member of the Colonial Assembly of North Carolina and also a member of Provincial Congress. His great grandfather, Needham Bryan III, was Captain of a regiment of soldiers in General Washington's army during the Revolutionary War and also of the Provincial Congress. Needham Bryan, III married Sarah Hinton, the daughter of Col. John Hinton a revolutionary soldier who was descended from Sir Thomas Hinton and the Barons of Runnymede of 1215. Loverd Bryan Brown came to Shelby County area from Georgia with the Polley wagon train in 1857 and settled on the San Augustine - Shelby County line. The Community where he settled still bears his name "Brown's Chapel". He was a commissioners court of Shelby County in 1902 - 1903.