14 George Fred Brown

14George Frederick Brown

Key Facts

Parents:	28Hiram Wesley Brown 29Mary Lee Parlier
Born:	16 April 1910 either Alabama or Georgia (Carroll County, Georgia seems most likely.)
Died:	23 February 1990 at 1:30 PM Ashburn Health Care (now PruittHealth Ashburn) nursing home, Turner County, Georgia
Buried:	Wrights Chapel Cemetery, Worth County, Georgia Coordinates: N31.37163 W83.75391

I have several photos that include 14Fred.1 The third photo (in which 14Fred is sitting and wearing a red shirt) is labeled September 1984; the others are undated. I find it humorous that a ~74 year-old man was wearing a Donkey Kong trucker hat. You may notice that 14Fred is holding a cigarette/cigarillo in two of the four photos; lung cancer later contributed to his death.2 (These images have been reduced in size, cropped, and color-adjusted, but you can see the raw scans here .)

14Fred was born 16 April 19102-4 in either Alabama2,5-7 or Georgia.8 I suspect he was born in Carroll County, Georgia, since his parents—28Hiram Brown2,6,7 and 29Mary Lee Parlier2—were living there in 1910.9

14Fred's mother died when he was only about eight years old.10 His father quickly remarried, and we find 14Fred with his father and stepmother in the 1920 and 1930 censuses.6,7

1920: 14Fred's family in Cleburne County, Alabama. Full page.6

1930: 14Fred's family in Lawrence County, Tennessee. Full page.7

Although I haven't found their marriage certificate, 14Fred married 15Evelyn Dunkin. (Among other evidence, their respective obituaries name many of the same children.5,11) The 1940 census shows their family in Haralson County, Georgia.8

1940: 14Fred's family in Haralson County, Georgia. Full page.8

14Fred moved to Worth County, Georgia in 1950 and apparently remained there for the rest of his life.5 His death certificate mentions that his residence was on Pepper Street in Poulan.2

14Fred and his wife 15Evelyn later divorced,12 although I don't know when and where. 15Evelyn's obituary states that she moved to Macon, Georgia in 1977,11 so that may have been around the time they divorced. Later records show that 14Fred remarried to a woman named Bertha Booth.2,5

14Fred died at the nursing home in Ashburn, Georgia on 23 February 1990 at 1:30 PM from a stroke secondary to lung cancer. He's buried in Wrights Chapel Cemetery, Worth County, Georgia at coordinates N31.37163 W83.75391. His death certificate,2 obituary,5 and a photo of his grave4 are below.

Sources Cited:

Several photos that include 14Fred, given to me by his daughter 7

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To protect my privacy and security, the names of certain close relatives have been redacted.

This individual is my maternal grandmother (ahnentafel #7).

in August 2021. You can see the raw scans here . As of this writing (in October 2021), I am in possession of the original prints of these photographs. Labels on the backs of some of the photos identify the individuals shown, but I have decided not to provide copies of those labels (since some of the individuals are close relatives). One photo—the one that shows 14Fred seated and wearing a red shirt, with a few women and a young boy nearby—is labeled September 1984, but the others aren't dated.

2: Turner County, Georgia death certificate 006159 for George F. Brown, who died 23 February 1990.

3: Social Security Death Index entry for George F. Brown; SSN 257-40-8786; last residence Poulan, Worth County, Georgia 31781; born 16 April 1910, died 15 February 1990. Ancestry.com, accessed 20 February 2010.

4: The tombstone of George Frederick Brown (16 April 1910 - 23 February 1990), Wrights Chapel Cemetery, Worth County, Georgia at coordinates N31.37163 W83.75391. Photograph taken by 1Bryant Knight on 27 August 2010.

5: "Fred Brown," Sylvester Local News (Worth County, Georgia), Thursday 1 March 1990, page 14. You can see a digital scan of this page here.

6: 1920 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule). Precinct 8, Cleburne County, Alabama. Enumeration district 62, sheet 11A, dwelling 188, family 188, Hiram W. Brown household. NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 7. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRJM-68?i=20&cc=1488411&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AMXZS-29W>, accessed 25 February 2021.

7: 1930 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule). District 10, Lawrence County, Tennessee. Enumeration district 18, sheet 9A, dwelling 155, family 157, Hiram W. Brown household. NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 2261. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRZZ-3YX?i=16&wc=QZFW-3FJ%3A648806201%2C649951601%2C648839001%2C1589282404&cc=1810731&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3ASP4B-WRJ>, accessed 1 March 2021.

8: 1940 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule). Militia district 1426, Haralson County, Georgia. Enumeration district 71-14, sheet 5B, family 78, Fred Brown household. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9M1-HCKB?i=9&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AK7GD-SH8>, accessed 4 October 2021.

9: 1910 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule). Smithfield (militia district 1006), Carroll County, Georgia. Enumeration district 12, sheet 1A, dwelling [not provided], family [not provided], Wesley H. Brown household. NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 176. FamilySearch, <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RJZ-KL?cc=1727033&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AMLG3-BCN>, accessed 1 March 2021.

10: Tombstones of Mary Lee (1887-1918) and Hiram Wesley (1884-1942) Brown, Antioch Cemetery, Cleburne County, Alabama at coordinates N33.6402 W85.3966

11: "Evelyn D. Brown," The Macon Telegraph (Bibb County, Georgia), Saturday 14 March 1992, page 3B. You can see a scan of the obituary here.

12: Georgia death certificate of Evelyn Brown, who died 13 March 1992 in Jones County, Georgia, certificate 010120. You can see a scan of the certificate here. As you can see, the certificate lists her marital status as divorced.