David Sands Brown was the son of Eli Brown and Susannah Sands of Watauga Co, NC. He married Eliza Jane Haile in Missouri on February 12, 1861, in Marrionville, Lawrence Co, MO.
OBITUARY: DAVID SANDS BROWN 1837-1922
D.S. Brown who lived about 5 miles south of Leeton, Missouri, at the home of his son, Abraham Lincoln Brown, died at nine o'clock Thursday evening, Aug. 3, 1922, and was buried Saturday, August 5, 1922. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Jordan of Windsor, Missouri, at Hickory Grove Methodist Church at 2 o'clock. He was buried at Calhoun Cemetery, Calhoun, Henry County, Mo. Mr. Brown was about 85 years of age and was a member of the M.E. Church. He was paralized and was confined to his room most of the
time for the past two years. He was a Union soldier in the Civil War.
-----------Leeton Missouri Times-----------
THE DAVID SANDS BROWN FAMILY by Dulcie Alice Gooding Gold ---- Granddaughter of David Sands Brown.
Martha Susannah Brown-Rains
Mrs. Martha Susannah Brown Rains of Deepwater, Missouri was 92 years of age March 16, 1960. I thought maybe some readers would like to send her a birthday card. She is the daughter of a soldier of the Civil War who fought in the Battle of Wilson's Creek. His name was David Sands Brown and his home was near Brown Springs, Missouri. That is where Mrs. Rains was born. The Springs was named after her father's Uncle Burton Brown. For many years it was a recreation spot.
The Brown family came to Missouri from North Carolina about the year 1850. Uncle Burton and family came first, then wrote back for his brother, Eli and family to come to Missouri where "Game abounded and a man had elbow room". Eli wouldn't come, but his son, David said "Good-bye" forever to his parents and started for Missouri on horseback, a distance of 2,500 miles. He was a young man of some education and he taught school several years in the north part of Stone County, Missouri, only taking time out to volunteer for service in the Civil War. During the time between teaching and war, he found time to build a barn and smoke house for his Uncle Burton Brown. These two buildings are still standing at the farm now owned by Lee DeWitt at Brown Springs and are a tribute to David Brown's workmanship.
David Sands Brown married Eliza Jane Haile Feb. 17, 1861. She was the daughter of Mead Haile, a farmer who was living in the school house at Marionville, Missouri during the Civil War. He had built the school and because there was war going on and a scarcity of young men teachers, Mr. Haile moved his family into it and taught such youngsters as could come to him. No certificate was required at that time. David Sands Brown helped when he could, but he had now acquired eighty acres of land and built a house, also dug a well. The 80 acres were where the Shiloh Church now stands and his house was near or on the Old Wire Road. Eliza Jane Haile-Brown was not yet 15 years of age when she was married and not quite 16 years of age when her first baby, Frances was born--dead. Two years later Amon was born--dead. In those days of few doctors most women were lucky just to have another woman attend them.
It was not until April 24, 1865, that one of David and Eliza's children lived and they named him Abraham Lincoln Brown. All this time things were not going so well between the families. Two of Eliza Jane's brothers had joined the Southern Army, an unheard of thing. Their mother, Livy Ann Haile was a Cavin before her marriage, and was well-to-do, as her father had many slaves. There were also two brothers who died at Wilson's Creek and are buried in the National Cemetery. One, a "Rebel" was killed at Lookout Mountain. Mead Haile went alone when he heard about the death to bring the boy's body home, because his mother wanted his body buried where she could go to his grave. It was a long, terribly lonesome, heart-breaking journey, taking more than a month before he was home again. He told once of the terrible nights when the wolves howled and that body was in the wagon, wrapped only in a wagon sheet. He had to keep a fire going and it rained a lot.
Meanwhile, David Sands Brown got leave of absence from his duties in Springfield, Missouri, to go home and start a crop. He had an ox named "Buck" and bought one he named "Brandy". He plowed some ground and hired a neighbor to help until he got his crop planted. Then he left everything in the hands of the boy, then walked the 30 miles back to Wilson's Creek. The Old Wire Road had quite a few men coming and going, as some in provision wagons scouted for fodder, others carried messages. All were hunting food and there was a lot of looting, driving off cattle and the like. David Sands Brown owned an old white cow and she had a calf which they had kept by driving it away from the roadside and hiding it in the brush when there was word that someone was coming. They managed to keep the calf until it was three or four months of age. On one of his trips home when there was practically nothing left for his wife to eat, he killed the calf and packed it in salt in a wooden tub he had previously made. He then hid it under the bed. Only a few days after he was gone back to Springfield, Missouri, a party of soldiers coming up from Nashville raided the home, found the beef, and were dividing it joyfully when their officer came in, ordered every bit of it replaced, and pushing it back under the bed and declared that he would shoot any man who disturbed the household again. They didn't.
The long summer dragged on with many soldiers going up and down the Old Wire Road. Soldiers camped at McCullah Springs, which was about a mile northeast of their home. Some who were sick remained there several days at a time. August came and David Sands Brown's corn was tall and green with roasting ears. The terrible battle of Wilson's Creek was over and the home guards drilled and waited, hoping to go home soon. David Sands Brown thought of his corn and other things at home, but one day in late August, soldiers camped at the springs and by night fall, not a hill of corn remained. The corn was there in roasting ears and fodder for horses. They and their horses were hungry, so what else could one expect in time of war? He always thought it was Rebels going back to Cassville. David Sands Brown found out later that his neighbors, William Gold and "Smiley" Short had suffered the same fate.
There are two graves on William Gold's farm. They are graves of soldiers who died of wounds and were buried beside The Old Wire Road. Their graves are not marked with names or dates. They are about one-fourth mile from the Little Gold Cemetery where William Gold, his wife and some of their children are buried. William Gold was in the Battle of Wilson's Creek, too. After the war, David Sands Brown lived on the home place until the year 1876, and after Abraham Lincoln Brown was born, another infant was born, Cora Lockey. She died March 8, 1867.
Martha Susannah Brown-Rains was born March 14, 1868, and Laura Ann Brown-Gooding was born Aug. 15, 1871. Another boy was born and died on February 25, 1873, and the youngest, Elmer Jackson Brown was born December 30, 1875. They sold their home to John Hair in the year 1876, and moved to Warsaw, Benton County, Mo., He (David Sands Brown) died at his son's home near Leeton, in Henry County, Mo. His wife, Eliza Jane Haile-Brown passed away December 20, 1925 at the home of her daughter-in-law, Mary Frances Brown.
This is the heritage of Martha Susannah Brown-Rains------and myself, Dulcie Gooding-Gold, R.R. 1, Marionville, Missouri.
Writer of this article--Dulcie Alice Gooding-Gold and daughter of Abraham Basley Gooding and Laura Ann Brown-Gooding.
This is a copy of the original publication in "Over The Ozarks", a column in the Springfield, Missouri Newspapers, Incorporated, Springfield, Missouri."
From "The Brown Family History" Pg. 88-90 by Mary Florence Brown-Dameron, 1983. Copy in possession of Harlene Soper Brown. No copyright.
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OBITUARY: DAVID SANDS BROWN 1837-1922
D.S. Brown who lived about 5 miles south of Leeton, Missouri, at the home of his son, Abraham Lincoln Brown, died at nine o'clock Thursday evening, Aug. 3, 1922, and was buried Saturday, August 5, 1922. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Jordan of Windsor, Missouri, at Hickory Grove Methodist Church at 2 o'clock. He was buried at Calhoun Cemetery, Calhoun, Henry County, Mo. Mr. Brown was about 85 years of age and was a member of the M.E. Church. He was paralized and was confined to his room most of the
time for the past two years. He was a Union soldier in the Civil War.
-----------Leeton Missouri Times-----------
THE DAVID SANDS BROWN FAMILY by Dulcie Alice Gooding Gold ---- Granddaughter of David Sands Brown.
Martha Susannah Brown-Rains
Mrs. Martha Susannah Brown Rains of Deepwater, Missouri was 92 years of age March 16, 1960. I thought maybe some readers would like to send her a birthday card. She is the daughter of a soldier of the Civil War who fought in the Battle of Wilson's Creek. His name was David Sands Brown and his home was near Brown Springs, Missouri. That is where Mrs. Rains was born. The Springs was named after her father's Uncle Burton Brown. For many years it was a recreation spot.
The Brown family came to Missouri from North Carolina about the year 1850. Uncle Burton and family came first, then wrote back for his brother, Eli and family to come to Missouri where "Game abounded and a man had elbow room". Eli wouldn't come, but his son, David said "Good-bye" forever to his parents and started for Missouri on horseback, a distance of 2,500 miles. He was a young man of some education and he taught school several years in the north part of Stone County, Missouri, only taking time out to volunteer for service in the Civil War. During the time between teaching and war, he found time to build a barn and smoke house for his Uncle Burton Brown. These two buildings are still standing at the farm now owned by Lee DeWitt at Brown Springs and are a tribute to David Brown's workmanship.
David Sands Brown married Eliza Jane Haile Feb. 17, 1861. She was the daughter of Mead Haile, a farmer who was living in the school house at Marionville, Missouri during the Civil War. He had built the school and because there was war going on and a scarcity of young men teachers, Mr. Haile moved his family into it and taught such youngsters as could come to him. No certificate was required at that time. David Sands Brown helped when he could, but he had now acquired eighty acres of land and built a house, also dug a well. The 80 acres were where the Shiloh Church now stands and his house was near or on the Old Wire Road. Eliza Jane Haile-Brown was not yet 15 years of age when she was married and not quite 16 years of age when her first baby, Frances was born--dead. Two years later Amon was born--dead. In those days of few doctors most women were lucky just to have another woman attend them.
It was not until April 24, 1865, that one of David and Eliza's children lived and they named him Abraham Lincoln Brown. All this time things were not going so well between the families. Two of Eliza Jane's brothers had joined the Southern Army, an unheard of thing. Their mother, Livy Ann Haile was a Cavin before her marriage, and was well-to-do, as her father had many slaves. There were also two brothers who died at Wilson's Creek and are buried in the National Cemetery. One, a "Rebel" was killed at Lookout Mountain. Mead Haile went alone when he heard about the death to bring the boy's body home, because his mother wanted his body buried where she could go to his grave. It was a long, terribly lonesome, heart-breaking journey, taking more than a month before he was home again. He told once of the terrible nights when the wolves howled and that body was in the wagon, wrapped only in a wagon sheet. He had to keep a fire going and it rained a lot.
Meanwhile, David Sands Brown got leave of absence from his duties in Springfield, Missouri, to go home and start a crop. He had an ox named "Buck" and bought one he named "Brandy". He plowed some ground and hired a neighbor to help until he got his crop planted. Then he left everything in the hands of the boy, then walked the 30 miles back to Wilson's Creek. The Old Wire Road had quite a few men coming and going, as some in provision wagons scouted for fodder, others carried messages. All were hunting food and there was a lot of looting, driving off cattle and the like. David Sands Brown owned an old white cow and she had a calf which they had kept by driving it away from the roadside and hiding it in the brush when there was word that someone was coming. They managed to keep the calf until it was three or four months of age. On one of his trips home when there was practically nothing left for his wife to eat, he killed the calf and packed it in salt in a wooden tub he had previously made. He then hid it under the bed. Only a few days after he was gone back to Springfield, Missouri, a party of soldiers coming up from Nashville raided the home, found the beef, and were dividing it joyfully when their officer came in, ordered every bit of it replaced, and pushing it back under the bed and declared that he would shoot any man who disturbed the household again. They didn't.
The long summer dragged on with many soldiers going up and down the Old Wire Road. Soldiers camped at McCullah Springs, which was about a mile northeast of their home. Some who were sick remained there several days at a time. August came and David Sands Brown's corn was tall and green with roasting ears. The terrible battle of Wilson's Creek was over and the home guards drilled and waited, hoping to go home soon. David Sands Brown thought of his corn and other things at home, but one day in late August, soldiers camped at the springs and by night fall, not a hill of corn remained. The corn was there in roasting ears and fodder for horses. They and their horses were hungry, so what else could one expect in time of war? He always thought it was Rebels going back to Cassville. David Sands Brown found out later that his neighbors, William Gold and "Smiley" Short had suffered the same fate.
There are two graves on William Gold's farm. They are graves of soldiers who died of wounds and were buried beside The Old Wire Road. Their graves are not marked with names or dates. They are about one-fourth mile from the Little Gold Cemetery where William Gold, his wife and some of their children are buried. William Gold was in the Battle of Wilson's Creek, too. After the war, David Sands Brown lived on the home place until the year 1876, and after Abraham Lincoln Brown was born, another infant was born, Cora Lockey. She died March 8, 1867.
Martha Susannah Brown-Rains was born March 14, 1868, and Laura Ann Brown-Gooding was born Aug. 15, 1871. Another boy was born and died on February 25, 1873, and the youngest, Elmer Jackson Brown was born December 30, 1875. They sold their home to John Hair in the year 1876, and moved to Warsaw, Benton County, Mo., He (David Sands Brown) died at his son's home near Leeton, in Henry County, Mo. His wife, Eliza Jane Haile-Brown passed away December 20, 1925 at the home of her daughter-in-law, Mary Frances Brown.
This is the heritage of Martha Susannah Brown-Rains------and myself, Dulcie Gooding-Gold, R.R. 1, Marionville, Missouri.
Writer of this article--Dulcie Alice Gooding-Gold and daughter of Abraham Basley Gooding and Laura Ann Brown-Gooding.
This is a copy of the original publication in "Over The Ozarks", a column in the Springfield, Missouri Newspapers, Incorporated, Springfield, Missouri."
From "The Brown Family History" Pg. 88-90 by Mary Florence Brown-Dameron, 1983. Copy in possession of Harlene Soper Brown. No copyright.
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David Sands Brown was the son of Eli Brown and Susannah Sands of Watauga Co, NC. He married Eliza Jane Haile in Missouri on February 12, 1861, in Marrionville, Lawrence Co, MO.
OBITUARY: DAVID SANDS BROWN 1837-1922
D.S. Brown who lived about 5 miles south of Leeton, Missouri, at the home of his son, Abraham Lincoln Brown, died at nine o'clock Thursday evening, Aug. 3, 1922, and was buried Saturday, August 5, 1922. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Jordan of Windsor, Missouri, at Hickory Grove Methodist Church at 2 o'clock. He was buried at Calhoun Cemetery, Calhoun, Henry County, Mo. Mr. Brown was about 85 years of age and was a member of the M.E. Church. He was paralized and was confined to his room most of the
time for the past two years. He was a Union soldier in the Civil War.
-----------Leeton Missouri Times-----------
THE DAVID SANDS BROWN FAMILY by Dulcie Alice Gooding Gold ---- Granddaughter of David Sands Brown.
Martha Susannah Brown-Rains
Mrs. Martha Susannah Brown Rains of Deepwater, Missouri was 92 years of age March 16, 1960. I thought maybe some readers would like to send her a birthday card. She is the daughter of a soldier of the Civil War who fought in the Battle of Wilson's Creek. His name was David Sands Brown and his home was near Brown Springs, Missouri. That is where Mrs. Rains was born. The Springs was named after her father's Uncle Burton Brown. For many years it was a recreation spot.
The Brown family came to Missouri from North Carolina about the year 1850. Uncle Burton and family came first, then wrote back for his brother, Eli and family to come to Missouri where "Game abounded and a man had elbow room". Eli wouldn't come, but his son, David said "Good-bye" forever to his parents and started for Missouri on horseback, a distance of 2,500 miles. He was a young man of some education and he taught school several years in the north part of Stone County, Missouri, only taking time out to volunteer for service in the Civil War. During the time between teaching and war, he found time to build a barn and smoke house for his Uncle Burton Brown. These two buildings are still standing at the farm now owned by Lee DeWitt at Brown Springs and are a tribute to David Brown's workmanship.
David Sands Brown married Eliza Jane Haile Feb. 17, 1861. She was the daughter of Mead Haile, a farmer who was living in the school house at Marionville, Missouri during the Civil War. He had built the school and because there was war going on and a scarcity of young men teachers, Mr. Haile moved his family into it and taught such youngsters as could come to him. No certificate was required at that time. David Sands Brown helped when he could, but he had now acquired eighty acres of land and built a house, also dug a well. The 80 acres were where the Shiloh Church now stands and his house was near or on the Old Wire Road. Eliza Jane Haile-Brown was not yet 15 years of age when she was married and not quite 16 years of age when her first baby, Frances was born--dead. Two years later Amon was born--dead. In those days of few doctors most women were lucky just to have another woman attend them.
It was not until April 24, 1865, that one of David and Eliza's children lived and they named him Abraham Lincoln Brown. All this time things were not going so well between the families. Two of Eliza Jane's brothers had joined the Southern Army, an unheard of thing. Their mother, Livy Ann Haile was a Cavin before her marriage, and was well-to-do, as her father had many slaves. There were also two brothers who died at Wilson's Creek and are buried in the National Cemetery. One, a "Rebel" was killed at Lookout Mountain. Mead Haile went alone when he heard about the death to bring the boy's body home, because his mother wanted his body buried where she could go to his grave. It was a long, terribly lonesome, heart-breaking journey, taking more than a month before he was home again. He told once of the terrible nights when the wolves howled and that body was in the wagon, wrapped only in a wagon sheet. He had to keep a fire going and it rained a lot.
Meanwhile, David Sands Brown got leave of absence from his duties in Springfield, Missouri, to go home and start a crop. He had an ox named "Buck" and bought one he named "Brandy". He plowed some ground and hired a neighbor to help until he got his crop planted. Then he left everything in the hands of the boy, then walked the 30 miles back to Wilson's Creek. The Old Wire Road had quite a few men coming and going, as some in provision wagons scouted for fodder, others carried messages. All were hunting food and there was a lot of looting, driving off cattle and the like. David Sands Brown owned an old white cow and she had a calf which they had kept by driving it away from the roadside and hiding it in the brush when there was word that someone was coming. They managed to keep the calf until it was three or four months of age. On one of his trips home when there was practically nothing left for his wife to eat, he killed the calf and packed it in salt in a wooden tub he had previously made. He then hid it under the bed. Only a few days after he was gone back to Springfield, Missouri, a party of soldiers coming up from Nashville raided the home, found the beef, and were dividing it joyfully when their officer came in, ordered every bit of it replaced, and pushing it back under the bed and declared that he would shoot any man who disturbed the household again. They didn't.
The long summer dragged on with many soldiers going up and down the Old Wire Road. Soldiers camped at McCullah Springs, which was about a mile northeast of their home. Some who were sick remained there several days at a time. August came and David Sands Brown's corn was tall and green with roasting ears. The terrible battle of Wilson's Creek was over and the home guards drilled and waited, hoping to go home soon. David Sands Brown thought of his corn and other things at home, but one day in late August, soldiers camped at the springs and by night fall, not a hill of corn remained. The corn was there in roasting ears and fodder for horses. They and their horses were hungry, so what else could one expect in time of war? He always thought it was Rebels going back to Cassville. David Sands Brown found out later that his neighbors, William Gold and "Smiley" Short had suffered the same fate.
There are two graves on William Gold's farm. They are graves of soldiers who died of wounds and were buried beside The Old Wire Road. Their graves are not marked with names or dates. They are about one-fourth mile from the Little Gold Cemetery where William Gold, his wife and some of their children are buried. William Gold was in the Battle of Wilson's Creek, too. After the war, David Sands Brown lived on the home place until the year 1876, and after Abraham Lincoln Brown was born, another infant was born, Cora Lockey. She died March 8, 1867.
Martha Susannah Brown-Rains was born March 14, 1868, and Laura Ann Brown-Gooding was born Aug. 15, 1871. Another boy was born and died on February 25, 1873, and the youngest, Elmer Jackson Brown was born December 30, 1875. They sold their home to John Hair in the year 1876, and moved to Warsaw, Benton County, Mo., He (David Sands Brown) died at his son's home near Leeton, in Henry County, Mo. His wife, Eliza Jane Haile-Brown passed away December 20, 1925 at the home of her daughter-in-law, Mary Frances Brown.
This is the heritage of Martha Susannah Brown-Rains------and myself, Dulcie Gooding-Gold, R.R. 1, Marionville, Missouri.
Writer of this article--Dulcie Alice Gooding-Gold and daughter of Abraham Basley Gooding and Laura Ann Brown-Gooding.
This is a copy of the original publication in "Over The Ozarks", a column in the Springfield, Missouri Newspapers, Incorporated, Springfield, Missouri."
From "The Brown Family History" Pg. 88-90 by Mary Florence Brown-Dameron, 1983. Copy in possession of Harlene Soper Brown. No copyright.
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OBITUARY: DAVID SANDS BROWN 1837-1922
D.S. Brown who lived about 5 miles south of Leeton, Missouri, at the home of his son, Abraham Lincoln Brown, died at nine o'clock Thursday evening, Aug. 3, 1922, and was buried Saturday, August 5, 1922. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Jordan of Windsor, Missouri, at Hickory Grove Methodist Church at 2 o'clock. He was buried at Calhoun Cemetery, Calhoun, Henry County, Mo. Mr. Brown was about 85 years of age and was a member of the M.E. Church. He was paralized and was confined to his room most of the
time for the past two years. He was a Union soldier in the Civil War.
-----------Leeton Missouri Times-----------
THE DAVID SANDS BROWN FAMILY by Dulcie Alice Gooding Gold ---- Granddaughter of David Sands Brown.
Martha Susannah Brown-Rains
Mrs. Martha Susannah Brown Rains of Deepwater, Missouri was 92 years of age March 16, 1960. I thought maybe some readers would like to send her a birthday card. She is the daughter of a soldier of the Civil War who fought in the Battle of Wilson's Creek. His name was David Sands Brown and his home was near Brown Springs, Missouri. That is where Mrs. Rains was born. The Springs was named after her father's Uncle Burton Brown. For many years it was a recreation spot.
The Brown family came to Missouri from North Carolina about the year 1850. Uncle Burton and family came first, then wrote back for his brother, Eli and family to come to Missouri where "Game abounded and a man had elbow room". Eli wouldn't come, but his son, David said "Good-bye" forever to his parents and started for Missouri on horseback, a distance of 2,500 miles. He was a young man of some education and he taught school several years in the north part of Stone County, Missouri, only taking time out to volunteer for service in the Civil War. During the time between teaching and war, he found time to build a barn and smoke house for his Uncle Burton Brown. These two buildings are still standing at the farm now owned by Lee DeWitt at Brown Springs and are a tribute to David Brown's workmanship.
David Sands Brown married Eliza Jane Haile Feb. 17, 1861. She was the daughter of Mead Haile, a farmer who was living in the school house at Marionville, Missouri during the Civil War. He had built the school and because there was war going on and a scarcity of young men teachers, Mr. Haile moved his family into it and taught such youngsters as could come to him. No certificate was required at that time. David Sands Brown helped when he could, but he had now acquired eighty acres of land and built a house, also dug a well. The 80 acres were where the Shiloh Church now stands and his house was near or on the Old Wire Road. Eliza Jane Haile-Brown was not yet 15 years of age when she was married and not quite 16 years of age when her first baby, Frances was born--dead. Two years later Amon was born--dead. In those days of few doctors most women were lucky just to have another woman attend them.
It was not until April 24, 1865, that one of David and Eliza's children lived and they named him Abraham Lincoln Brown. All this time things were not going so well between the families. Two of Eliza Jane's brothers had joined the Southern Army, an unheard of thing. Their mother, Livy Ann Haile was a Cavin before her marriage, and was well-to-do, as her father had many slaves. There were also two brothers who died at Wilson's Creek and are buried in the National Cemetery. One, a "Rebel" was killed at Lookout Mountain. Mead Haile went alone when he heard about the death to bring the boy's body home, because his mother wanted his body buried where she could go to his grave. It was a long, terribly lonesome, heart-breaking journey, taking more than a month before he was home again. He told once of the terrible nights when the wolves howled and that body was in the wagon, wrapped only in a wagon sheet. He had to keep a fire going and it rained a lot.
Meanwhile, David Sands Brown got leave of absence from his duties in Springfield, Missouri, to go home and start a crop. He had an ox named "Buck" and bought one he named "Brandy". He plowed some ground and hired a neighbor to help until he got his crop planted. Then he left everything in the hands of the boy, then walked the 30 miles back to Wilson's Creek. The Old Wire Road had quite a few men coming and going, as some in provision wagons scouted for fodder, others carried messages. All were hunting food and there was a lot of looting, driving off cattle and the like. David Sands Brown owned an old white cow and she had a calf which they had kept by driving it away from the roadside and hiding it in the brush when there was word that someone was coming. They managed to keep the calf until it was three or four months of age. On one of his trips home when there was practically nothing left for his wife to eat, he killed the calf and packed it in salt in a wooden tub he had previously made. He then hid it under the bed. Only a few days after he was gone back to Springfield, Missouri, a party of soldiers coming up from Nashville raided the home, found the beef, and were dividing it joyfully when their officer came in, ordered every bit of it replaced, and pushing it back under the bed and declared that he would shoot any man who disturbed the household again. They didn't.
The long summer dragged on with many soldiers going up and down the Old Wire Road. Soldiers camped at McCullah Springs, which was about a mile northeast of their home. Some who were sick remained there several days at a time. August came and David Sands Brown's corn was tall and green with roasting ears. The terrible battle of Wilson's Creek was over and the home guards drilled and waited, hoping to go home soon. David Sands Brown thought of his corn and other things at home, but one day in late August, soldiers camped at the springs and by night fall, not a hill of corn remained. The corn was there in roasting ears and fodder for horses. They and their horses were hungry, so what else could one expect in time of war? He always thought it was Rebels going back to Cassville. David Sands Brown found out later that his neighbors, William Gold and "Smiley" Short had suffered the same fate.
There are two graves on William Gold's farm. They are graves of soldiers who died of wounds and were buried beside The Old Wire Road. Their graves are not marked with names or dates. They are about one-fourth mile from the Little Gold Cemetery where William Gold, his wife and some of their children are buried. William Gold was in the Battle of Wilson's Creek, too. After the war, David Sands Brown lived on the home place until the year 1876, and after Abraham Lincoln Brown was born, another infant was born, Cora Lockey. She died March 8, 1867.
Martha Susannah Brown-Rains was born March 14, 1868, and Laura Ann Brown-Gooding was born Aug. 15, 1871. Another boy was born and died on February 25, 1873, and the youngest, Elmer Jackson Brown was born December 30, 1875. They sold their home to John Hair in the year 1876, and moved to Warsaw, Benton County, Mo., He (David Sands Brown) died at his son's home near Leeton, in Henry County, Mo. His wife, Eliza Jane Haile-Brown passed away December 20, 1925 at the home of her daughter-in-law, Mary Frances Brown.
This is the heritage of Martha Susannah Brown-Rains------and myself, Dulcie Gooding-Gold, R.R. 1, Marionville, Missouri.
Writer of this article--Dulcie Alice Gooding-Gold and daughter of Abraham Basley Gooding and Laura Ann Brown-Gooding.
This is a copy of the original publication in "Over The Ozarks", a column in the Springfield, Missouri Newspapers, Incorporated, Springfield, Missouri."
From "The Brown Family History" Pg. 88-90 by Mary Florence Brown-Dameron, 1983. Copy in possession of Harlene Soper Brown. No copyright.
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