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Bura Fillmore Brown

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Bura Fillmore Brown

Birth
Ovett, Jones County, Mississippi, USA
Death
1949 (aged 61–62)
Mississippi, USA
Burial
Blodgett, Jones County, Mississippi, USA Add to Map
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Too poor to own a mule, had to name his son Bura.

Children below
The 1940 Census has Louis "Buster", his wife Inez,
daughter Elaine, and brother Ralph,
in Harrison County, next door to Homer and Ida Dedeaux.
Buster was still in Ovett in 1935,
Ralph was in Richton, Perry.
By 1950 or so they had moved to Texas,
eventually settling in Montgomery County ,
where they remained.

Robert Earl, who retired from the Army
in Columbia, S.C.,
had joined them by 1970 or so.

Doris remained in Laurel.

Bura's father Millard Watkins Brown acquired 160 acres in 1892 under the Homestead Act. Brown Cemetary in Blodgett, Jones is almost at the North West corner of this land.
Date above when Govt issued the Patent.


The 1930 Census has Bura and family
temporarily on a cotton farm
in Leflore County.
His sister Martha Estelle Nicholson
and family lived next door.
Her Daughter Myrtle was already Teaching school.

Bura and Jerusha were in Perry County in the 1940 Census, also here in 1935.

Also Siblings

Luther E Brown
Willa Coren ? Brown


Great Grand daughter

Kimrell Jane Brown
Too poor to own a mule, had to name his son Bura.

Children below
The 1940 Census has Louis "Buster", his wife Inez,
daughter Elaine, and brother Ralph,
in Harrison County, next door to Homer and Ida Dedeaux.
Buster was still in Ovett in 1935,
Ralph was in Richton, Perry.
By 1950 or so they had moved to Texas,
eventually settling in Montgomery County ,
where they remained.

Robert Earl, who retired from the Army
in Columbia, S.C.,
had joined them by 1970 or so.

Doris remained in Laurel.

Bura's father Millard Watkins Brown acquired 160 acres in 1892 under the Homestead Act. Brown Cemetary in Blodgett, Jones is almost at the North West corner of this land.
Date above when Govt issued the Patent.


The 1930 Census has Bura and family
temporarily on a cotton farm
in Leflore County.
His sister Martha Estelle Nicholson
and family lived next door.
Her Daughter Myrtle was already Teaching school.

Bura and Jerusha were in Perry County in the 1940 Census, also here in 1935.

Also Siblings

Luther E Brown
Willa Coren ? Brown


Great Grand daughter

Kimrell Jane Brown


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