Stephen Arnold Brown
great grand uncle
Mathew Brown & Hannah Okey
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Stephen Arnold Brown – 1864
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John Wagonerfield Brown – 1860
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Ira Edward Brown – 1894
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Elisha Kane Brown - 1921
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Kathleen Elizabeth Brown Hill - 1947
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(known as “Uncle Dunk”)
Photos: Stephen Arnold; S.A. & Mary Ann, Cora, Clay & Arch; Back l-r: Ed Forrest and Arch N.; Front l-r: Josephine, Beecher and Jean
Submitted by: Michael Brown Date: 26 Sep 1998, page 268
Honorable Stephen Arnold Brown, ex-member of the Twenty-fifth General Assembly, and one of the largest land owners and farmers of Bennett Bayou, was born in the Buckeye State, and is the son of Mathew and Hannah (Okey) Brown, natives of Ohio. They were married in their native State, and remained there until 1866, he engaged in farming and stock-raising. In 1861 the elder Brown (Mathew) joined the United States troops as first lieutenant of Company D, Twenty-seventh Ohio Infantry, and served about one year, participating in the following battles: New Madrid, Island No. 10 and Corinth. When the call for 600,000 troops was made, Lieutenant Brown came home, raised a company, was made captain, and joined the One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio Infantry, Company F, and remained with that company for three years. He took part in several noted engagements: Winchester, Cedar Creek, Piedmont, Petersburg and Richmond. He was wounded at Winchester while on picket duty, being shot in the arm. He was discharged at Harper's Ferry in 1864, and came home. In 1866 he went to Southwest Missouri, and in 1869 came to Fulton County, Arkansas, and bought the place on which his son, Honorable S. A., now resides, for $2,000. Three years later be sold this farm to his son, and bought one on Big North Fork of White River, in Baxter County, Arkansas, where he died in 1876. He was public administrator of this county for three or four years, and was also county judge of the same county. He was not an office seeker and was appointed to the positions he held by the Governor. Previous to the war, he had been a strong Democrat, but after that his ideas coincided with those of the Republican party. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. Nine children were born to his marriage, eight of whom lived to be grown, and seven are now living: Edward; S. A., born December 28,1839; Catherine; A. R.; Nancy (deceased); Mary A.; Jennie D.; and Josephine.
S.A. Brown was a soldier in the late war, having joined Company F, One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio, in his twenty-first year, and served three years. He was discharged on account of a wound, and was afterward captured at Staunton, Virginia and kept in prison three months. He was in Libby prison a short period, but the principal part of the time was spent in the hospital. He was paroled at Richmond, Virginia on the 12th of August, 1865. While in service he participated in the following battles: Winchester, Gettysburg, and at Piedmont, Virginia, where he was wounded by a musket ball in the arm. He held the rank of orderly sergeant of his company during the war. After his return home in 1865, he remained there for about a year, and then, in company with his father, moved to Polk County, Missouri, where he continued for three years. After this he taught school, and in1869 came to Fulton County, Arkansas, where he taught the first free school in this section after the war. Subsequently he engaged in agricultural pursuits, and has continued the same up to the present. On the 8th of December, 1870’ Miss Lou Baker became his wife, and to them have been born three children; Claud, born on the 19th of September, 1871; Bettie, born on the 2nd of November, 1873, and Bertha, born on the 4th of February, 1881. Mrs. Brown died on the 28th of April, 1882, and Mr. Brown married Mrs. Josie Simpson nee Tuttle, August 4, 1884, and they have two children, Roscoe C., born on the 16th of August, 1885, and Archie, born on the 16th of April, 1887. Mrs. Brown is the daughter of Capt. T. C. Fluty, of Tennessee, a captain in the Confederate army, and one of the prominent farmers of Baxter County, Arkansas. Mr. Brown has represented his county in the legislature, and has held several minor offices, filling the position of commissioner of public accounts for two terms. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Queen Elizabeth Lodge No. 360, and is also a member of the I. O. O. F. Vidette Lodge No. 94. He belongs to Simpson Mason Post No. 228. G. A. R., Department of Missouri, and was appointed on the staff of John E. Phelps, commander of the State of Missouri. He is a Republican in politics, and he and Mrs. Brown are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.