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James Marshall Brown (Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1792-05-01 d. 1879-11-09

Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married Susan Beauchamp Brown in Nelson County, Kentucky on February 26, 1818. Father of Harry Brown, Susan Brown, Edwinia Brown, Catherine Brown, Newell Wilson Brown, and James Harvey Brown. Farmer in Nelson County, Kentucky in 1850. Owned nineteen enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1850. Farmer in Nelson County in 1860. Owned twenty-one enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 653.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 96.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, p. 178.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, p. 136.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Nelson County Courthouse, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, Film 000481488, p. 179.

Find A Grave, "James Marshal Browne (1792-1879)," Memorial #112410132, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112410132 (accessed April 25, 2019).

Citation

Brown, James Marshall. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200830 (November 12, 2026).

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