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John Brown was born June 11th 1844 in Indiana to parents John T and Cynthia Brown.While he was a small boy his parents moved to Vernon County Missouri and settled in virgin timber along Horse Creek near the Cedar County line. They are there in 1850 and 1860 census. The area was a frequent jayhawker target before the war.
In the fall of 1861 John enlists for 6 months in Co C 3rd Regt Cavalry and is discharged in Fulton County Arkansas under quarantine. Back in Cedar County on 26th Oct 1862 he joins Co C Thompsons Regt, Shelbys brigade, Marmadukes division.
In Sept 1863 Jayhawkers raid the Montevallo Township where John T Brown was out hunting some cattle and murder him. In October 1863 John finds out of the death of his father and deserts returning to Missouri and joining Quantrill.
At the end of the war he returned to Vernon County and built a home near the previous home from which his family had been driven, engaging in general farming and stock raising.
In 1913 John Brown applied for and received Confederate Pension number 660. He died Sept 2o 1940 at the age of 97 at the home of his granddaughter Mrs Bernard Hinkle, in Sheldon and was buried in Brasher Cemetery in Jericho Springs, Cedar County MO
A family report says in 1928 his son and grandson drove down from Iowa to see him, they found him at 84 sitting in a rocking a chair of the front porch of the cabin. John stood up and walked out to met them wearing a gun belt with two loaded revolvers.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50447655/john-brown
In the fall of 1861 John enlists for 6 months in Co C 3rd Regt Cavalry and is discharged in Fulton County Arkansas under quarantine. Back in Cedar County on 26th Oct 1862 he joins Co C Thompsons Regt, Shelbys brigade, Marmadukes division.
In Sept 1863 Jayhawkers raid the Montevallo Township where John T Brown was out hunting some cattle and murder him. In October 1863 John finds out of the death of his father and deserts returning to Missouri and joining Quantrill.
At the end of the war he returned to Vernon County and built a home near the previous home from which his family had been driven, engaging in general farming and stock raising.
In 1913 John Brown applied for and received Confederate Pension number 660. He died Sept 2o 1940 at the age of 97 at the home of his granddaughter Mrs Bernard Hinkle, in Sheldon and was buried in Brasher Cemetery in Jericho Springs, Cedar County MO
A family report says in 1928 his son and grandson drove down from Iowa to see him, they found him at 84 sitting in a rocking a chair of the front porch of the cabin. John stood up and walked out to met them wearing a gun belt with two loaded revolvers.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50447655/john-brown
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