The following info was givin to me by Imogean Magnusson McDonald, a relative from Ardmore, AL, who was given the information from Ron Graves.
R.J. (Robert Jefferson) Browning was born 17 Nov 1862 (marker has to be wrong due to the date of death of his father) in Lincoln County, TN. His parents were Charles H. Benton (Bent) Browning and Sarah F. (Grubbs) Browning. His father was a Confederate soldier who gave his life for his county on 30 May 1862 in Columbus, Mississipi. Robert J. had a sister, Frances Ann, and a brother Charles Benton "Bud" Browning Sr.
Robert Jefferson Browning (Bob) was the youngest child of Charles Benton and Sarah Frances Grubbs Browning. He never married and lived very much as a hermit because it seemed he just could not endure women or childen. Bob dearly loved sweet potato pie and usually got it when he would occasionally visit with any of the family. On these rare visits, he would tease the children relentlessly, by tying their long stockings in hard knots that they could not undo. He would then laugh till he cried because they could not untie them. He had an odd way of picking cotton, he held the stalk with one hand and picked the ball of cotton with the other. Everyone tried to explain that the gin would clean it but Bob never changed his way and as a result, he could never pick more then 100 lbs a day. After he was 50 hears old or so, when asked his age, he would say, "I'll be 35 in the spring." He worked and paid for a small marker for the graves of his mother and brother in Marystown Cemetery but when he died there was no money for his marker. In talking to Carrie Wilshire, it was learned his grave was unmarked, so Emme and Earl's children had a marker placed on the grave of Robert Jefferson Browning.
R.J. (Robert Jefferson) Browning was born 17 Nov 1862 (marker has to be wrong due to the date of death of his father) in Lincoln County, TN. His parents were Charles H. Benton (Bent) Browning and Sarah F. (Grubbs) Browning. His father was a Confederate soldier who gave his life for his county on 30 May 1862 in Columbus, Mississipi. Robert J. had a sister, Frances Ann, and a brother Charles Benton "Bud" Browning Sr.
Robert Jefferson Browning (Bob) was the youngest child of Charles Benton and Sarah Frances Grubbs Browning. He never married and lived very much as a hermit because it seemed he just could not endure women or childen. Bob dearly loved sweet potato pie and usually got it when he would occasionally visit with any of the family. On these rare visits, he would tease the children relentlessly, by tying their long stockings in hard knots that they could not undo. He would then laugh till he cried because they could not untie them. He had an odd way of picking cotton, he held the stalk with one hand and picked the ball of cotton with the other. Everyone tried to explain that the gin would clean it but Bob never changed his way and as a result, he could never pick more then 100 lbs a day. After he was 50 hears old or so, when asked his age, he would say, "I'll be 35 in the spring." He worked and paid for a small marker for the graves of his mother and brother in Marystown Cemetery but when he died there was no money for his marker. In talking to Carrie Wilshire, it was learned his grave was unmarked, so Emme and Earl's children had a marker placed on the grave of Robert Jefferson Browning.
The following info was givin to me by Imogean Magnusson McDonald, a relative from Ardmore, AL, who was given the information from Ron Graves.
R.J. (Robert Jefferson) Browning was born 17 Nov 1862 (marker has to be wrong due to the date of death of his father) in Lincoln County, TN. His parents were Charles H. Benton (Bent) Browning and Sarah F. (Grubbs) Browning. His father was a Confederate soldier who gave his life for his county on 30 May 1862 in Columbus, Mississipi. Robert J. had a sister, Frances Ann, and a brother Charles Benton "Bud" Browning Sr.
Robert Jefferson Browning (Bob) was the youngest child of Charles Benton and Sarah Frances Grubbs Browning. He never married and lived very much as a hermit because it seemed he just could not endure women or childen. Bob dearly loved sweet potato pie and usually got it when he would occasionally visit with any of the family. On these rare visits, he would tease the children relentlessly, by tying their long stockings in hard knots that they could not undo. He would then laugh till he cried because they could not untie them. He had an odd way of picking cotton, he held the stalk with one hand and picked the ball of cotton with the other. Everyone tried to explain that the gin would clean it but Bob never changed his way and as a result, he could never pick more then 100 lbs a day. After he was 50 hears old or so, when asked his age, he would say, "I'll be 35 in the spring." He worked and paid for a small marker for the graves of his mother and brother in Marystown Cemetery but when he died there was no money for his marker. In talking to Carrie Wilshire, it was learned his grave was unmarked, so Emme and Earl's children had a marker placed on the grave of Robert Jefferson Browning.
R.J. (Robert Jefferson) Browning was born 17 Nov 1862 (marker has to be wrong due to the date of death of his father) in Lincoln County, TN. His parents were Charles H. Benton (Bent) Browning and Sarah F. (Grubbs) Browning. His father was a Confederate soldier who gave his life for his county on 30 May 1862 in Columbus, Mississipi. Robert J. had a sister, Frances Ann, and a brother Charles Benton "Bud" Browning Sr.
Robert Jefferson Browning (Bob) was the youngest child of Charles Benton and Sarah Frances Grubbs Browning. He never married and lived very much as a hermit because it seemed he just could not endure women or childen. Bob dearly loved sweet potato pie and usually got it when he would occasionally visit with any of the family. On these rare visits, he would tease the children relentlessly, by tying their long stockings in hard knots that they could not undo. He would then laugh till he cried because they could not untie them. He had an odd way of picking cotton, he held the stalk with one hand and picked the ball of cotton with the other. Everyone tried to explain that the gin would clean it but Bob never changed his way and as a result, he could never pick more then 100 lbs a day. After he was 50 hears old or so, when asked his age, he would say, "I'll be 35 in the spring." He worked and paid for a small marker for the graves of his mother and brother in Marystown Cemetery but when he died there was no money for his marker. In talking to Carrie Wilshire, it was learned his grave was unmarked, so Emme and Earl's children had a marker placed on the grave of Robert Jefferson Browning.
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