Edward Brown^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}

1838 - 1908  (70 years)

• Name	Edward Brown
  Nickname	Ned
  Birth	04 Jan 1838	Monroe County, OH
  Gender	Male
  Death	09 Feb 1908	Vidette, Fulton Co., AR
  Burial	Fluty Cemetery, Baxter Co., AR
  Person ID	I1945	Halbstein_Parrish Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2011

  
  

  Father	Mathew Brown,   b. 12 Mar 1818, OH d. 10 Apr 1876, Vidette, Fulton Co., AR (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Hannah Okey,   b. 30 Jul 1819, Monroe County, OH d. 25 Mar 1896, Vidette, Fulton Co., AR (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	Feb 1837	Stafford, Monroe Co., OH
  Family ID	F661	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Clegg,   b. 11 May 1837   d. 12 Apr 1915 (Age 77 years)
  Children	+ 1. John Waggonfield Brown,   b. 23 Sept 1860, Monroe County, OH d. 21 Jul 1944, Vidette, Fulton County, AR (Age 83 years) + 2. Stephen Arnold Brown,   b. 1864 + 3. Benjamin Franklin Brown,   b. 11 Mar 1868   d. 19 Oct 1936 (Age 68 years) + 4. Corine Brown,   b. 25 Jul 1880, Vidette, Fulton Co., AR d. 27 Dec 1951, Vidette, Fulton Co., AR (Age 71 years)
  Last Modified	29 Sep 2009
  Family ID	F585	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 04 Jan 1838 - Monroe County, OH Death - 09 Feb 1908 - Vidette, Fulton Co., AR Burial - - Fluty Cemetery, Baxter Co., AR  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  [S119014] Year: 1850; Census Place: Monroe Co., OH; Film Number: 444705; Digital GS Number: 4093954; Image Number: 00315; Line Number: 21; Dwelling House Number: 635. [S119015] Year: 1870; Census Place: Bennett's Bayou Township, Fulton Co., AR. [S119020] Year: 1900; Census Place: Bennett's Bayou, Fulton Co., AR; Enumeration District: 0021; Page: 6; Sheet: B; Family Number: 98; GSU Film Number: 1240059; Image: 00149. [S119018] Fulton County History Book Committee, Fulton County, Arkansas: History & Families, (Acclaim Press, Morley, MO), 234. Loranzo Dow Cotter was born Sept. 8, 1881 the son of John Cotter and Elizabeth (Jackson) Cotter in the Vidette Community and lived there all of his life. He died July 8, 1960. The Cotters came from Cork County, Ireland to North Carolina and then to Tennessee, where they raised their family. The children scattered into Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas setting in the western part of Fulton County in the 1860's. William R. Cotter and wife Dicey J. Cotter, grandparents of Loranzo Dow, came to Arkansas and homesteaded in the Pickren Hall/Vidette area along with their children. Chester A. Arthur signed Homestead papers on May 20, 1862. The family of Cotter's is buried at Grisso, Hurst and Fluty Cemeteries. Dow, as he was known, was married to Cora Brown and they had nine children. He went to school three days and decided it was not for him. He was successful rancher, buying up land for taxes and raising cattle, owning well over a thousand acre ranch, several rental houses and commercial buildings in the Bakersfield, MO. and Viola, AR. area. As a young man he worked on the laying the railroad down the White River and also worked for his future wife's father. His ranch is still a working ranch known as Little Creek Ranch, Gepp, AR. Dow and Cora had five boys, Edward married Doxie Shrable, Raymond, Harley married Mary Morrison, Dunkin married Clara Morrison and second wife Jean Knoll, and Rufus Cotter married Anna Wilson. Four daughters, Elizabeth married Ray Fore, Etta married Jim Thompson, Lorene married Buell Shrable, and Leola married Claude Keith. All the children are deceased except Etta Thompson, Leola Keith and in-law Anna Cotter. The Browns had a racetrack in the valley by the creek at Vidette where he raced horses and tended to them. Cora Brown was the daughter of Edward and Margaret Brown, also born at Vidette. Before marrying, she taught school in the school house-Methodist Church known as Brown's Chapel at Vidette build and donated by her grandfather, Captain Mathew Brown. The building at Vidette is still standing and was used as a school and served as several different churches. She spent her life gardening and tending to the nine children. In their lifetime they had three homes and a barn to burn and without insurance. [S119024] Baxter County Historical Society, Baxter County, Arkansas: History & Families, (Turner Publishing Company), 72. Mae Bell Foster's great-great-grandparents were Matthew Brown (March 12, 1818-April 10, 1876) and Hannah Okey (July 30, 1819-March 25, 1896). Matthew and his family moved to Fulton County from Ohio in 1866 after the Civil War. He was of German and Irish descent. He built the Brown's Chapel Methodist Church at Vidette, AR. In 1914, it become known as the Vidette Pentecostal Church until 1981. It was also used as a one-room schoolhouse until 1940. The Brown's Day Family Reunion has been held there on the Sunday before Labor Day every year since the 1960s. Matthew Brown moved from Fulton County to Baxter County, where he was appointed by the governor to public office. Matthew and Hannah Brown are buried in the Flutie Cemetery in Baxter County at Gamaliel, AR. He was a captain in Company F116 of the Ohio Infantry during the Civil War. Their son, Edward Brown (May 1, 1837-Feb. 9, 1908) married Margaret Clawce (May 11, 1837-April 2, 1915). Edward was a private in Company H36 of the Ohio Infantry during the Civil War. They are both buried in the Flutie Cemetery. Mae Belle's grandparents are buried at the Pickern Hall Cemetery in Fulton County near Gepp, AR. John Wagonfield Brown (Sept. 21, 1860-1944) married Melissa Trett (June 8, 1864-July 1942). Their son, Bert Alvy Brown (Nov. 15, 1895-Aug. 3, 1975), married Nora Johnson on Dec. 19, 1919. She was born April 19, 1901 at Cedar Point, AR and died March 31, 1978. They are buried at the Shrable Cemetery. Bert was a WWI veteran. They had seven children, one of whom was Mae Belle Brown Foster. She married Roy Foster and had three children: Laroy Foster, Freda Foster Taylor and Tony Foster.