TRUE BURIAL SITE FOR SAMUEL BROWN AND WIFE
UNPARALLELLED MURDER
On the night of the 25th instant, the most unprecedented murder in the record of crimes, was committed in Simpson County, Mississippi. Samuel Brown, of the age 98 years, and his wife, a very old lady, were both murdered in their house, together with three negroes. Mr. Brown was a prudent, saving old man, and had the reputation in his neighborhood of having on hand a large sum of silver; and on that night some fiend, in human shape, approached the house, and from appearance, with a light wood knot and hatchet, broke the skulls of both the old persons, in a most frightful and lacerated manner; and with the same brutal barbarity, killed three negroes, and threw two men on the fire, and left the negro woman weltering in gore on her bed. All Mr. Brown's silver, as his neighbor's say, to the amount of $8,000, was taken out of his chest; $350 paper money, in the same chest, was left.
One negro woman on the place, not murdered, says at a late hour of the night she was waked from her sleep by a noise; that she ran out and beheld her master and mistress lying on the porch murdered; and someone with a torch in his hand forcing a negro man into the house, as was afterwards murdered and thrown on the fire. The woman, afraid to stir, gave no alarm until morning, when the neighbors assembled to behold this awful sight. No evidence has yet been discovered that would give the slightest clue to the murderer. -- But the public eye is turning to a certain individual well known in that neighborhood. The hand of justice will overtake him. -- Courier
DEATH NOTICES AND OTHER GLEANINGS
FROM THE WESTERN WEEKLY REVIEW
FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE 1831-1840
Abstracted by Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith
Samuel Brown was a Revolutionary War soldier from Georgia. He also served as a representative for Simpson County in the Mississippi legislature.
On April 14, 2007, his grave was marked as a Revolutionary War Patriot by the Central Mississippi Chapter Sons of the American Revolution and the Copiah Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. His grave also was marked by the Order of the First Families of Mississippi because he arrived with his family in the Mississippi Territory in Wayne County about 1810. The Mississippi Society of the Children of the American Revolution also participated. At that time, each of the four organizations was represented by a Samuel Brown descendant serving as an officer in their respective society.
The Browns were victims of one of the most infamous murders in the county's history and were laid to rest near their homestead at the head of Rials Creek about 1 1⁄2 miles southeast of where Rials Creek United Methodist Church now stands, off of Airport Road. A permanent monument was dedicated and placed at their graves in 1937.
UNPARALLELLED MURDER
On the night of the 25th instant, the most unprecedented murder in the record of crimes, was committed in Simpson County, Mississippi. Samuel Brown, of the age 98 years, and his wife, a very old lady, were both murdered in their house, together with three negroes. Mr. Brown was a prudent, saving old man, and had the reputation in his neighborhood of having on hand a large sum of silver; and on that night some fiend, in human shape, approached the house, and from appearance, with a light wood knot and hatchet, broke the skulls of both the old persons, in a most frightful and lacerated manner; and with the same brutal barbarity, killed three negroes, and threw two men on the fire, and left the negro woman weltering in gore on her bed. All Mr. Brown's silver, as his neighbor's say, to the amount of $8,000, was taken out of his chest; $350 paper money, in the same chest, was left.
One negro woman on the place, not murdered, says at a late hour of the night she was waked from her sleep by a noise; that she ran out and beheld her master and mistress lying on the porch murdered; and someone with a torch in his hand forcing a negro man into the house, as was afterwards murdered and thrown on the fire. The woman, afraid to stir, gave no alarm until morning, when the neighbors assembled to behold this awful sight. No evidence has yet been discovered that would give the slightest clue to the murderer. -- But the public eye is turning to a certain individual well known in that neighborhood. The hand of justice will overtake him. -- Courier
DEATH NOTICES AND OTHER GLEANINGS
FROM THE WESTERN WEEKLY REVIEW
FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE 1831-1840
Abstracted by Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith
Samuel Brown was a Revolutionary War soldier from Georgia. He also served as a representative for Simpson County in the Mississippi legislature.
On April 14, 2007, his grave was marked as a Revolutionary War Patriot by the Central Mississippi Chapter Sons of the American Revolution and the Copiah Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. His grave also was marked by the Order of the First Families of Mississippi because he arrived with his family in the Mississippi Territory in Wayne County about 1810. The Mississippi Society of the Children of the American Revolution also participated. At that time, each of the four organizations was represented by a Samuel Brown descendant serving as an officer in their respective society.
The Browns were victims of one of the most infamous murders in the county's history and were laid to rest near their homestead at the head of Rials Creek about 1 1⁄2 miles southeast of where Rials Creek United Methodist Church now stands, off of Airport Road. A permanent monument was dedicated and placed at their graves in 1937.
TRUE BURIAL SITE FOR SAMUEL BROWN AND WIFE
UNPARALLELLED MURDER
On the night of the 25th instant, the most unprecedented murder in the record of crimes, was committed in Simpson County, Mississippi. Samuel Brown, of the age 98 years, and his wife, a very old lady, were both murdered in their house, together with three negroes. Mr. Brown was a prudent, saving old man, and had the reputation in his neighborhood of having on hand a large sum of silver; and on that night some fiend, in human shape, approached the house, and from appearance, with a light wood knot and hatchet, broke the skulls of both the old persons, in a most frightful and lacerated manner; and with the same brutal barbarity, killed three negroes, and threw two men on the fire, and left the negro woman weltering in gore on her bed. All Mr. Brown's silver, as his neighbor's say, to the amount of $8,000, was taken out of his chest; $350 paper money, in the same chest, was left.
One negro woman on the place, not murdered, says at a late hour of the night she was waked from her sleep by a noise; that she ran out and beheld her master and mistress lying on the porch murdered; and someone with a torch in his hand forcing a negro man into the house, as was afterwards murdered and thrown on the fire. The woman, afraid to stir, gave no alarm until morning, when the neighbors assembled to behold this awful sight. No evidence has yet been discovered that would give the slightest clue to the murderer. -- But the public eye is turning to a certain individual well known in that neighborhood. The hand of justice will overtake him. -- Courier
DEATH NOTICES AND OTHER GLEANINGS
FROM THE WESTERN WEEKLY REVIEW
FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE 1831-1840
Abstracted by Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith
Samuel Brown was a Revolutionary War soldier from Georgia. He also served as a representative for Simpson County in the Mississippi legislature.
On April 14, 2007, his grave was marked as a Revolutionary War Patriot by the Central Mississippi Chapter Sons of the American Revolution and the Copiah Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. His grave also was marked by the Order of the First Families of Mississippi because he arrived with his family in the Mississippi Territory in Wayne County about 1810. The Mississippi Society of the Children of the American Revolution also participated. At that time, each of the four organizations was represented by a Samuel Brown descendant serving as an officer in their respective society.
The Browns were victims of one of the most infamous murders in the county's history and were laid to rest near their homestead at the head of Rials Creek about 1 1⁄2 miles southeast of where Rials Creek United Methodist Church now stands, off of Airport Road. A permanent monument was dedicated and placed at their graves in 1937.
UNPARALLELLED MURDER
On the night of the 25th instant, the most unprecedented murder in the record of crimes, was committed in Simpson County, Mississippi. Samuel Brown, of the age 98 years, and his wife, a very old lady, were both murdered in their house, together with three negroes. Mr. Brown was a prudent, saving old man, and had the reputation in his neighborhood of having on hand a large sum of silver; and on that night some fiend, in human shape, approached the house, and from appearance, with a light wood knot and hatchet, broke the skulls of both the old persons, in a most frightful and lacerated manner; and with the same brutal barbarity, killed three negroes, and threw two men on the fire, and left the negro woman weltering in gore on her bed. All Mr. Brown's silver, as his neighbor's say, to the amount of $8,000, was taken out of his chest; $350 paper money, in the same chest, was left.
One negro woman on the place, not murdered, says at a late hour of the night she was waked from her sleep by a noise; that she ran out and beheld her master and mistress lying on the porch murdered; and someone with a torch in his hand forcing a negro man into the house, as was afterwards murdered and thrown on the fire. The woman, afraid to stir, gave no alarm until morning, when the neighbors assembled to behold this awful sight. No evidence has yet been discovered that would give the slightest clue to the murderer. -- But the public eye is turning to a certain individual well known in that neighborhood. The hand of justice will overtake him. -- Courier
DEATH NOTICES AND OTHER GLEANINGS
FROM THE WESTERN WEEKLY REVIEW
FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE 1831-1840
Abstracted by Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith
Samuel Brown was a Revolutionary War soldier from Georgia. He also served as a representative for Simpson County in the Mississippi legislature.
On April 14, 2007, his grave was marked as a Revolutionary War Patriot by the Central Mississippi Chapter Sons of the American Revolution and the Copiah Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. His grave also was marked by the Order of the First Families of Mississippi because he arrived with his family in the Mississippi Territory in Wayne County about 1810. The Mississippi Society of the Children of the American Revolution also participated. At that time, each of the four organizations was represented by a Samuel Brown descendant serving as an officer in their respective society.
The Browns were victims of one of the most infamous murders in the county's history and were laid to rest near their homestead at the head of Rials Creek about 1 1⁄2 miles southeast of where Rials Creek United Methodist Church now stands, off of Airport Road. A permanent monument was dedicated and placed at their graves in 1937.
Inscription
Samuel Brown and Wife
Murdered 1837 - Aged 80 years
Erected by their Descendants 1937
