Brown Family Papers and Sevier and Brown Family History by Marvin Wilson and Elnora Lloyd League.
Scope and Contents
MM.2001.010a: undated fragment of McClellan family record (taped to index card); handwritten paper on today and tomorrow signed Kate Brown, ADS 4 pp. (1 pc.), no date; May 7(?), 1820(?) letter from Jane to Ruth Ann McClennan. ALS 1 p. re: visit, marriage; May 3, 1845, letter from R. C. S. Brown, Little Rock, Ark., to his wife. ALS 1 p. re: travel on boat, money; April 15, 1850, letter from R. C. S. Brown, Little Rock, Ark., to wife Ruth Ann. ALS 2 pp. re: trials, church; July 26, 1854, letter from George W. Campbell, Independence, Mo., to sister Mrs. Brown ALS 2 pp. + attached letter to Mrs. Brown from J. M. Washburn. ALS 2 pp. re: death of Judge Brown from cholera, missing money; March 14, 1958, letter from B .B. Sevier, Ashwood, to Aunt, Miss Ruth M. Brown. ALS 4 pp. (1 pc.). re: family news, marriage, bought Negroes + transcribed copy of this letter; Nov. 24, [18]61, letter from John Gregg, Gregg’s Retreat, Tex., to Sister Ann (Mrs. R. A. M. Brown). ALS 1 P. + note (1 pc.). re: cotton cards; overseeing cotton picking; March 11, 1863(?), letter from R. C. S. Brown, Port Hudson, to mother [Ruth Brown]. ALS 1 p. re: ‘soldiering no fun’, worked on brestworks, caught Yankee prisoners + transcription of letter and notes from donor; typed transcription of 1975 love letter to Miss Kate from D. W. Livingston. 1 pc. (original not donated); January 1909 notes re: descendants of John Sevier estate by [Catherine Ann “Kate” Brown]. (Writer identified by donor). MM-2001-10b: Sevier and Brown Family History by Marvin Wilson and Elnora Lloyd League. February 2001. 31 pp. with index. (Cataloged copy on McClung shelves). + copy photographs of the Livingston Family and Lida Livingston and husband James R. Beaty + photocopies of David Wilson Livingston and “Kate Brown” tombstones, Harry & Opal Stracener, and Arch Huff Stracener and Bennie Bell Livingston.
Dates
- 1820-2001
Conditions Governing Access
Material is available for research. Prior arrangement MUST be made by contacting the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection at mcclung-archivist@knoxlib.org
Extent
2 folders
- African Americans Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Arch Stracener Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- B . B. Sevier Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Brown Family History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Catherine Ann Brown Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cholera Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- D. W. Livingston Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Elnora Lloyd League Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- George W. Campbell Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Harry Stracener Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- J. M. Washburn Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- John Gregg Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Kate Brown Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Marvin Wilson Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- McClellan Family Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Opal Stracener Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- R. C. S. Brown Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Ruth Ann McClellan Brown Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Sevier Family History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Slaves Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Tennessee History Civil War, 1861-1865 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Brown Family Papers and Sevier and Brown Family History by Marvin Wilson and Elnora Lloyd League.
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection Repository
601 S Gay Street
3rd floor
Knoxville Tennessee 37902 United States
865.215.8814
mcclung-archivist@knoxlib.org
