Lucy Isabel Brown was born 19 October 1872 in Camden County, Missouri, the eleventh child of Lewis Sinclair Brown; she was born to his second wife, Christina Garman Story Brown, who gave birth to three more children after Lucy -- Lewis Sinclair II, Maggie Alice, and Frank Simpson Brown.

Lucy's father died in 1885 when she was only 12 and her youngest brother was only 3, and the family had a hard time. Because Lewis had served in the Civil War, his minor children were eligible for his pension, but that help did not come immediately. The pension application was filed in 1891 and a stipend was eventually awarded to them -- $8 per month plus $2 additional for each of the three minor children; it was to be paid on behalf of each child until the child reached age 16.

Lucy Brown and George Thomas Garrett were married 2 December 1888, had eleven children and were financially a very poor family; however, it was a good family and the children were well reared. The children were Maggie Alice (1891), Homer (1893), Dora Annie (1895), Joe Aubrey (1897), Thurber (1901), Nora Elizabeth (1903), Herbert L. (1905), Oma Flora (1907), Leonard H. (1910), Floyd H. (1915), and Lloyd (1916).

On May 1, 1906 George and Lucy Garrett sold40 acres of land for $150 in Camden County, Missouri, and both George and Lucy Garrett made a "mark" -- that is they both signed with an X, indicating they could not write.

According to oral history from Lucy's daughter, Oma, Lucy did not cut her hair. She used to comb it out every night and put it up in a bun every morning. When Lucy died, her loosed hair fell down to her ankles.

George died in 1932 and Lucy died in 1948. Both are buried in Brown Cemetery (plots 30 and 31) in Camden County, Missouri in the old farm owned by Lucy's father, Lewis Sinclair Brown.