John D. Brown
A PATRIARCH HEADED PIONEER COLLIN FAMILY
John D. Brown and Wife Settled at Old Buckner 81 Years Ago.
Courier
January 2, 1926
Robert E. Brown, who will be 74 years old on the 22nd of the coming February, and who now resides in Lubbock county, is a native of Collin county. As before stated in these columns, he was born near Plano, Feb. 22, 1852, but left the county in 1869.
He father, Sam P. Brown, soon after the son was born, moved to the Cottage Hill community, twelve miles northwest of McKinney, where he purchased a farm which is now known as the Goodrich? place and in a few years he sold that farm and purchased another one from his brother, William Brown, nearby. He was induced to part with his first farm on account of the fancy price that he was offered for it $10 per acre. He sold it to Uncle Wash Eller Cottage Hill pioneer, long since deceased. The second farm that he purchased in the Cottage Hill community is now owned by Lum Woods. After his father sold out at Cottage Hill in 1869, he purchased and moved on to another farm located two miles north of Pilot Point, just across in Cooke county. Sam P. Brown and wife are both buried in the old cemetery at Pilot Point where his parents and the grandparents of Robert E. Brown are also buried. Robt. E. Brown's grandparents were John D. Brown and wife who first settled at Old Buckner, three miles northwest of McKinney, in the year 1845. Old Buckner was the first county seat of Collin county. But it passed out of existence in 1848 in which year the county site was moved by a county-wide election to McKinney and this town was first located and chartered. Robert E. Brown states that his grandfather John D. Brown, was a member of the first grand jury that was ever enpaneled in Collin county.
John D. Brown attained to the ripe old age of more than 90 years before his death and burial finally occurred at Pilot Point. This rugged influential old Collin county pioneer patriarch came here one year before our county was organized in 1846 by act of the first legislature of Texas.
John D. Brown and wife reared a large family of children. Their descendants are scattered over Texas and Oklahoma but wherever they are found, they continue to be honored, useful citizens in their respective localities and callings even down to the fourth, fifth and sixth generations of them. The example and precept of the rugged honest pious old Methodist pioneer couple, who settled here 71 years ago, are still characteristic traits in the lives of their numerous posterity of each succeeding generation after them.
Among their descendants still living in our county are Hon. George P. Brown of McKinney, a grandson; Mrs. R. W. Miller of Cottage Hill and Mrs. Kelley of Westminster, all great-granddaughters.
John D. Brown and Wife Settled at Old Buckner 81 Years Ago.
Courier
January 2, 1926
Robert E. Brown, who will be 74 years old on the 22nd of the coming February, and who now resides in Lubbock county, is a native of Collin county. As before stated in these columns, he was born near Plano, Feb. 22, 1852, but left the county in 1869.
He father, Sam P. Brown, soon after the son was born, moved to the Cottage Hill community, twelve miles northwest of McKinney, where he purchased a farm which is now known as the Goodrich? place and in a few years he sold that farm and purchased another one from his brother, William Brown, nearby. He was induced to part with his first farm on account of the fancy price that he was offered for it $10 per acre. He sold it to Uncle Wash Eller Cottage Hill pioneer, long since deceased. The second farm that he purchased in the Cottage Hill community is now owned by Lum Woods. After his father sold out at Cottage Hill in 1869, he purchased and moved on to another farm located two miles north of Pilot Point, just across in Cooke county. Sam P. Brown and wife are both buried in the old cemetery at Pilot Point where his parents and the grandparents of Robert E. Brown are also buried. Robt. E. Brown's grandparents were John D. Brown and wife who first settled at Old Buckner, three miles northwest of McKinney, in the year 1845. Old Buckner was the first county seat of Collin county. But it passed out of existence in 1848 in which year the county site was moved by a county-wide election to McKinney and this town was first located and chartered. Robert E. Brown states that his grandfather John D. Brown, was a member of the first grand jury that was ever enpaneled in Collin county.
John D. Brown attained to the ripe old age of more than 90 years before his death and burial finally occurred at Pilot Point. This rugged influential old Collin county pioneer patriarch came here one year before our county was organized in 1846 by act of the first legislature of Texas.
John D. Brown and wife reared a large family of children. Their descendants are scattered over Texas and Oklahoma but wherever they are found, they continue to be honored, useful citizens in their respective localities and callings even down to the fourth, fifth and sixth generations of them. The example and precept of the rugged honest pious old Methodist pioneer couple, who settled here 71 years ago, are still characteristic traits in the lives of their numerous posterity of each succeeding generation after them.
Among their descendants still living in our county are Hon. George P. Brown of McKinney, a grandson; Mrs. R. W. Miller of Cottage Hill and Mrs. Kelley of Westminster, all great-granddaughters.