| BROWN: HUGH BROWN, SENIOR, was the son of Robert Brown
of Virginia and South Carolina. Hugh Brown, Sr. became a planter and the owner of vast acres of land on the Reedy and Saludy Rivers just outside of Charleston, South Carolina. During the Revolutionary War, Captain Hugh Brown of Col. Thomas Pearson's Little River Militia 96th District Brigade, opposed independence and sided with the British. He was banished from South Carolina and all of his property was confiscated. He and his wife, SARAH
were forced to flee to Spanish East Florida. Just before their son, Hugh Brown, Jr. was born in 1788, they left St. Augustine, Florida and moved to Camden County, Georgia. HUGH BROWN, JR., the son of Hugh Brown Senior and Sarah, last name unknown, was born in Camden County, GA July 19, 1788. He married ELIZABETH DEAN on April 13, 1815 in Milledgeville, GA. Elizabeth Dean, the daughter of William Dean and Jane Sessions,
was born April 10, 1796. Hugh Brown, Jr. distinguished himself as a Camden County Sheriff, Justice of Inferior Court, Representative and Senator in the Georgia legislature, was a soldier in the War of 1812 and held the rank of Major in the Georgia militia. Hugh Brown, Jr. died July 29, 1851 in Camden County, GA and is buried at Burnt Fort Cemetery. Elizabeth Dean Brown died June 29, 1861 in Camden County, GA and is buried at Burnt Fort Cemetery. CHILDREN OF HUGH BROWN JR. & ELIZABETH DEAN:
1. JANE DEAN BROWN born 19 January 1817 in Camden County, GA; married JACOB TAPLEY GOODBREAD 18 October 1832; died 11 June 1861. 2. WILLIAM DEAN BROWN born 23 October 1818 in Camden County, GA; married HATTIE C. HOLLAND; died 16 July 1873. 3. HUGH BROWN III born 07 December 1820 in Camden County, GA; marriedTHERESA ANN JONES
28 October 1851; died 19 January 1880. 4. JOHN H. BROWN born 23 September 1822 in Camden County, GA; died 18 December 1886. 5. SARAH ELIZABETH BROWN born 15 July 1824 in Camden County, GA; married NATHANIEL J. PATTERSON, JR. 15 October 1840; died 13 June 1846. 6. MARY ANN BROWN born 01 July 1827 in Camden County, GA; married NATHANIEL J. PATTERSON, JR.
; died 29 February 1848. 7. JAMES DAVID BROWN born 18 July 1831 in Camden County, GA; married 1st MARY POPE GODLEY - three children; married 2ndCLARA ANN GELZER 11 August 1872 in Camden County, GA - five children; died 30 April 1888 in Camden County and is buried at Burnt Fort Cemetery. 8. GEORGIA BROWN born 18 May 1834 in Camden County, GA; married A. JACK READDICK
28 February 1854. 9. VIRGINIA JANE BROWN born 18 May 1835 in Camden County, GA; married WILLIAM LANG; died 13 August 1860. 10. CRAWFORD PARRISH BROWN born 09 April 1838 in Camden County, GA; married LAURA JANE PARRISH 19 February 1863; died 07 July 1878. JAMES DAVID BROWN, the son of Hugh Brown, Jr. and Elizabeth Dean, married 1stMARY POPE GODLEY
of Beaufort County, SC. Pope Godley, as she was called, was the daughter of Benjamin Godley and Mary, last name unknown. Pope Godley's brother was Thomas Means Godley (the grandfather of Marguerite Jule Godley Reddick). Thomas Means Godley of Beaufort District, South Carolina, and his wife, Ann Elizabeth Gowen, moved from South Carolina between 1854 and 1856 to make a permanent home in Camden County. His father, Benjamin Godley followed, bringing his
three younger children, including Pope, with him. Mary Pope Godley Brown died not long after her third child was born and is buried in an unmarked grave at Burnt Fort Cemetery. JAMES DAVID BROWN married 2nd CLARA ANN GELZER in Camden County, GA. She was the daughter of Thomas Lining Gelzer, M.D. and Clara Anne Reid, both of South Carolina. The Gelzers moved from South Carolina to Camden County
between 1850-1860 and lived in Jeffersonton where Dr. Gelzer set up his medical practice. The Browns lived on the west side of the Satilla River in a section called Midriver (in the Sand Hills-north of Burnt Fort) where they owned over 200 acres of land. James David Brown lived his entire life in this area, farming the land with his sons. James David Brown died in 1888 and is buried at Burnt Fort Cemetery. His tombstone is marked with the Civil War inscription: "Co.
C 4 Ga. Cov. CSA." In the late 1890's, his wife, Clara Ann Gelzer Brown left Camden County for Miami, Florida, where she spent the rest of her life. She died 16 August 1919 in Miami, FL and is buried there in the historic City Cemetery. CHILDREN OF JAMES DAVID BROWN AND MARY POPE GODLEY: 1. HUGH CRAWFORD BROWN born 1860 in Midriver, GA; married ALICECHARLOTTE GELZER
(sister of Clara Ann Gelzer Brown) 09 April 1884 at Owens Ferry, Camden County, GA - 3 children; she died 15 February 1927; he died 17 September 1938; both bur. at Woodlawn Park Cem. in Miami, FL. 2. WILLIAM WESTON BROWN born 22 October 1865 in Midriver, GA; married MARY ALICE FRANCES DAY
on 19 February 1893 in White Oak, GA - 7 children; she was born 06 July 1875 at Brown's Neck in CCG; he died 30 September 1920; she died 29 March 1931; both bur. at Lott Cem. Waycross, GA. 3. NATHANIEL BROWN born ca. 1866 in CCG 4. JOHN POPE BROWN born 1868 in CCG; married BIRDIE MEADERS on 31 December 1901 in Savannah, GA - 2 kids; he died February 1908 & is bur. Dahlonega, GA. She married 2nd
Samuel Tilden Dowda M. D. & lived in Texas. NEXT |
