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John Henry, residing at 905 E. Yakima Ave., Yakima, Washington wrote a letter to his son Taylor at 5735 Surrir Place, N.W., Washington, DC. The postmark on the letter is not legible. In this letter he indicates that Taylor's wife and baby are with him and doing fine, and encourages Taylor to continue looking for work. This suggests the letter was written in the early 1930s. "Times are hard everyplace," he writes. John expresses his desire to join Taylor in the "painting line." John then proceeds to explain a great deal about painting techniques.
/line /i "John Henry Brown, the eighth child of Samuel and Nancy Jane (Joyce) Brown, was born August 6, 1871 and, like my father, gew up in Surry Co., NC. In the late 1800's he and Bud [C.T. Brown] came with grandfather Samuel to Carroll Co., VA to paint the home of James L. Marshall, which was one of the finest homes in the county. Grandfather Samuel did the woodgraining in this house. It is pictured in Samuel's section of this family history. I have seen this woodgraining and it is still quite beautiful.
"While here Uncle John met and lost his heart to a beautiful black-haired, brown-eyed maiden by the name of Matilda Gray. On June 5, 1895 they were married in Carroll Co., VA and settled in the Mitchell's Cross Roads area. It is here that they began their family. To this union were born four children: Margie Lee, Georgennea, Martha Elizabeth, and Samuel Taylor.
"According to Carroll Co., VA deed records, John Henry Brown bought 12 acres of land in August of 1900 from Stephen Mitchell and wife. Here he built a two room cabin which stood about halfway between Rush Dalton's home and the Dinwiddie Church. This was their first home and has since been torn down. Members of C.T.'s family will be interested to know that he built the house that my brother Buck and wife Minnie lived in some years later. It was in this house that daughter Margie married Elisha Marshall. During the next decade Uncle John bought 203 acres of land at Mitchell's Cross Roads and spent approximately two thousand dollars.
"Sometime between 1910 and 1915 Uncle John and Aunt Tilda, as she was called, left Carroll Co., VA and went to Yakima, Washington. Their daughter Margie and her husband Elisha Marshall went along with them. They didn't stay there long but my brother Herman tells me that Uncle John worked for a hog farmer while there. After they returned to Virginia from Washington, he decided to move to Arkansas. Aunt Tilda had a double first cousin, Kitty Marshall, who lived there. Uncle John and family along with Aunt Tilda's niece Blanche, her mother, and cousin Albert Gray all boarded a train and moved to Arkansas. They were there one month and then returned to Carroll Co.
"I am told that their next move was to Monroe Co., Tenn. Here John Henry bought 109 acres of land near Sweetwater. In 1915 he sold the last 44 acres he had in Carroll Co. to John F. and Henry Gray. Over a period of 15 years he had almost doubled his investment by selling the 203 acres in Carroll Co. That was a tidy profit for that day and time.
"Uncle John was known to his family and friends as a rambler, but he was always able to make a good living wherever he was for however long he stayed. He left his 109 acres in Tennessee intact and went to Washington, DC area to work. In a letter to my father Bud, written September 30, 1923, Uncle John is painting in Alexandria, VA and doing well. This letter is found on the next page of this family history. Uncle John tells Bud that all of this hard work is catching up to him and he is tired is going home to Tennessee for a rest. Once he sent Dad a map and instructions concerning some land in Tennessee that he wants Dad to help him sell as lots. 'I have a nice business planned for us. Will explain details when I see you,' Uncle John wrote. Needless to say, this deal never materialized. At this time Uncle John was 52 years of age.
"After his rest in Tennessee, Uncle John and Aunt Tilda went back to Arlington, VA to live with daughter Martha and husband Irving Jenkins until Uncle John died in 1938 at the age of 67. He visited many times in our home, but I cannot remember his face, just his presence with us. He was very witty and everyone liked him."/i0
- Mary Ellen (Brown) Price, June 1989, /i Samuel W. Brown and His Descendants/i0 , p. 133.
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33 Henry County, Virginia, United States
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