US Confederate Soldiers
Calvin L Brown
Private in Civil War
Enlistment: 1862 in Tennessee
Company Dooley’s Tennessee Fifty-Fourth Infantry Regiment ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

OBITUARY of George Washington Brown - Calvin’s son Crossville Chronicle March 16, 1944 ……next to the youngest of 8 sons of Calvin and Matilda Nash Brown; there were also 6 daughters.

The family was one of the earliest to settle on this part of the plateau. Coming from North Carolina, Mr Brown raised a crop in White county and then moved, as many were doing, to Indiana.

After they had been there for some while, an epidemic of some serious disease broke out and Mr Brown hurried his family back to White county. There he was asked by a man who had a lot of cattle out on the range to move up onto the plateau and look after the cattle.

So, when George was a small boy, the family settled in a little house in the section now known as Neverfail. Their nearest neighbor was 8 miles away at Pomona. George liked to tell how, when his father was away, his mother would poke a gun out the window and shoot the wolves that howled around the house. He could keep a listener fascinated for hours with stories of hunting when the woods were full of game of many kinds.

After a while the Brown family moved to a place they called Pleasant Ridge and which is now Pleasant Hill. Their house stood not far from where the red barn now stands on Academy land.

To the end of his life, George was deeply moved whenever he recalled how they suffered during the years of the Civil War. Bands of irregulars supposed to represent the Union or the Confederacy harried the countryside, took everything they could, and made life miserable for the citizens.

George would tell how he got a little schooling. Someone would come and hold a subscription school. The parents would pay $1 a month for each pupil, but his parents couldn't possibly afford to pay for them all at once, so the children would take turns and each go a little while.

The family finally moved to the area now known as Browntown ….

Nearly all of George's brothers settled in the Pleasant Hill area so they saw much of each other through the years, though one, Tapley, spent most of his life in White county.

They were a remarkably long lived family, and only in recent years have been slipping away one at a time. 2 years ago, Lewis, the youngest brother, died, and now George's passing closes the generation. 3 of the 6 sisters also lived long lives.

George joined the Baptist church at 18; with his brother Lewis

His brothers were Tapley, Aaron, Tom, Will, Pinkney, Lewis and Joe.
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Crossville Chronicle, Crossville, TN
November 29, 2010
Residents help spruce up Old Pleasant Hill Cemetery By Jean Clark
Chronicle contributor CROSSVILLE — …. old Pleasant Hill Cemetery on Browntown Road.
There are no records of when the old Pleasant Hill Cemetery was first used as a burial ground but the oldest section was given to the First Congregational Church of Pleasant Hill by the Wightman family. … There are several unmarked stones, which may have come from the early to mid 1800s. The headstone with the earliest date seems to be from 1860, but the date and name are so degraded that it’s hard to tell.

The earliest history of the Pleasant Hill area swirls around the Calvin Brown family who came to Pleasant Hill in 1830 and populated the area with 14 children hence the nearby community named “Browntown.” Uncle Pink immortalized by the doll maker, Polly Page was one of his sons.
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1880 US Federal Census
Tennessee, White Co

Calvin Brown Age 79 (1801) NC
Parents born in NC
Matilda Age 69 (1811) NC
Parents born in NC

Grandson: Elijah Jones Age 18 (1862) TN
Parents born in TN
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1870 US Fedearl Census
Tennessee, White Co

Calvin Brown Age 67
and Matilda Age 59

Children:
La Pinkeney (27), Ruth J (30), William (25), Louisa (29), Aaron (24), Rorah A (18), Thomas M (21), Joseph (19), George (18), Lewis (16), Lucy (12), Martha Q (2), Mary M (3 months March) Ruth Jane (8 months October) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

1860 US Federal Census
Tennessee, Cumberland Co, Pomona PO

Calvin Brown Age 56
and Matilda Age 44

Children: Lepinkney (19), William (17), Martha J (13), Aaron (12), Thomas N (8), joseph (6), George (5), Lewis (3) and Lucy M (1) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1850 US Federal Census
Tennessee, White Co, Dist 14

Calvin Brown Age 40
and Matilda Age 34

Children:
Tapley Age 20
Polly A Age 16
Lafinkey Age 14
William Age 12
Peggey Age 9
Aaron Age 6
Thomas M Age 3
Joseph A Age 0
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1840 US Federal Census
Tennessee, White Co
Calvin Brown