Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Lorenzo D. Brown
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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Lorenzo D. Brown is a well-to-do farmer of Benton County, Ark., and was 
born in Alabama in the year 1842. He is a son of S. P. and Grace A. 
(Muldeo) Brown, the former of whom was born in the "Palmetto State," 
and was a planter by occupation. He moved from his native State to 
Alabama at a very early day, and from there to Texas in 1859, settling 
in Collins County, where he remained seven years. He then returned to 
Alabama, where he died in 1878. Lorenzo D. Brown was educated in the 
common schools of Alabama, and remained with his parents until he 
reached manhood. At the breaking out of the war of 1861 he joined the 
Confederate service, enlisting in Company D. Sixth Texas Cavalry, and 
after serving one and a half years returned home, and soon after re-
enlisted in Company I, Second Texas Partisan Rangers, commanded by 
Capt. White, and served until the close of the war. While in Louisiana 
he was taken prisoner, but soon after succeeded in effecting his 
escape, and returned to his command. He received his discharge at 
Hempstead, Tex., and returned to his home in Collins County, that 
State, and resumed farming. In 1884 he came to Benton County, Ark., 
and purchased his present farm, which consists of 120 acres of very 
fair land. He was married in 1864 to Miss Mary J. Carson, of Titus 
County, Tex., and by her has a family of seven children: Horace P., 
Frank C., Albert L., Lora V., Gracie, Robert and Corrie. Mrs. Brown is 
a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.