1897 - 1974

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• Birth	27 Feb 1897	McDonald County, Missouri   [1]
  Gender	Male
  1920 Census	7 Jan 1920	Des Moines City, Polk County, Iowa   [2]
  1930 Census	10 Apr 1930	Southfield Twp., Oakland County, Michigan   [3]
  HIST	1920 Polk Co., IA Census, State Iowa County Polk Precinct 6, Des Moines City, s.d. 7. e.d. 109, sheet no. 4B 7th January 1920 by Lois W. Gould 1801 Illinois Avenue line 75, 77/77 BROWN Claudian Head OM MW 23 M /yes/yes Arkansas Tennessee United States Truck driver/Oil Company Esther Wife FW 22 M /yes/yes Iowa Illinois Iowa. 1930 Oakland Co., MI Census, State Michigan County Oakland Southfield Township, e.d. 63-125, s.d. 14, sheet no. 10A/68A April 10, 1930 by Earl J King 280 Marshall [two other families: St Peter and Oswald] line 20, 206/211 BROWN Claud M. Head R 35 R mo MW 32 M 21 no/yes Arkansas Tennessee Tennessee Tunnel? Man/ Sewer? Co. Esther Wife-H FW 32 M 21 no/yes Iowa Illinoise Iowa Richard son MW 9 S yes/yes Iowa Arkansas Iowa Virginia Daughter FW 8 S yes/yes Iowa Arkansas Iowa Pauline Daughter FW 7 S yes/yes Colorado Arkansas Iowa Mary Catherine Daughter FW 3 S no/no Ohio? Arkansas Iowa.
  Died	4 Jun 1974	Noel, McDonald County, Missouri   [4]
  Buried	Pineville Cemetery, Pineville, McDonald County, Missouri   [5]
  Person ID	I4436	Whole Family
  Last Modified	09 Dec 2007
  Father	Alfred Wilkerson "Alf" Brown,   b. 9 Jan 1860, Greene County, Tennessee ,   d. 21 Nov 1930, Probably Neosho, Newton County, Missouri
  Mother	Matilda Catherine "Tilda" Pierce,   b. 3 Jun 1860, Greene County, Tennessee ,   d. 2 Apr 1931, Pineville twp., McDonald County, Missouri
  Married	5 Dec 1879	Greene County, Tennessee
  Family ID	F2069	Group Sheet
  Family	Esther Eldridge,   b. 7 Apr 1897, Iowa ,   d. 30 Dec 1984, Probably Missouri
  Married	Abt 1919
  Children	1. Living   2. Living   3. Living   4. Living
  Family ID	F2086	Group Sheet

• Photos		Alf and Tilda Brown Family Back row: John F. Hamby, Leora Brown Hamby, Claude M. O. Brown, James L. Brown, Alice S. Brown, William M. Brown and C. Ethel E. Brown Front row: Matilda C. Pierce Brown, Raymond B. Brown, Alfred W."Alf" Brown and Stella T. Brown
  Headstones		Brown Esther Claude

• Notes

  Claude Brown of Noel, Mo “remembers stories” [undated, unsigned transcript] Old Joe Hendry who was a brother of great grandma Sarah Hendry Brown [actually a nephew, son of William and Nancy Carter Hendry], was shot in Henry hollow (4) by his son-in-law then some say the son-in-law then shot himself in the yard. the family waited untill daylight and found him. Others say he was shot by the family after he shot Joe Hendry. Joe Hendry had a son named Jim and he and Joe fell out. Jim went to hunt his dad down to kill him and when he fired the gun blew up and Jim Hendry lost his arm because of it. Joe Hendry and Uncle Henry Brown ran around together during the civil war and made moon shine whiskey untill Uncle Henry came to Arkansas. I talked to one of Uncle Henrys nieces and she said her dad Uncle Will Brown told her that he and Uncle Henry were scouting during the civil war and heard some southern soldiers comming so they hid in the brush and waited then Uncle Henry shot both of the soldiers and cut their heads off and hung them on a sapling. Uncle will was just a small boy and was almost scared to death. A year or two later he past the place and the limbs had sprouted and grew around the heads still hanging there. I visited Hendry hollow and saw the Hendry place. Uncle henry later lived on Brown’s mountain (6) untill he came to Arkansas. Uncle Henry’s boy Will got in to some slight misunderstanding with the law and hit out for Kentucky wher he lived for some time. While there he had a disagreement with a fellow and when Will was talking to a neighbor one day this fellow come along and being drunk he had a notion he would just cut Will’s head off or his liver our and feed it to the dogs. Will run around the house while the man he was talking to keep telling him that the manwould kill him. Finally the man threw Wll a gun and he killed the fellow. The man talking to Will was afraid to testifie and will went to the penin [blank] for life and died there. Either some one went and got him or he was shiped back and burried on Brown’s mountain. I talked to his son in Greenville about July 4, 1974 and he had just put a tumbstone up for his dad. The Grave is at teh point of Brown’s mountain the back toward Baileyton at the head of a hollow. This is where uncle Henry lived along with Ramsey Harris when he came to Arkansas. The old timers still tell how mean old Joe and Jim Hendry were. One of the old timers told me he found one of the old pistols where Joe and some of his folks were having a battle years after but after he washed it and oiled it years later someone stold it. I would like to have had it. It was the old musle loading type. Grandma Mathilda Brown’s old home place has been bulldosed down for the new interstate 81 which has been finished to Bullsgap. We saw it before it was taken down but the old house was long since gone with a few of the chimney bricks left. It was reported to us by a niece, Uncle Matt Pierce’s granddaughter that Great grandpa Jimmy Pierce was a law-in-forcement officer at that time. We were unable to find his burial place but all the rest of the emediate family were buried at Mt.Carmel where grandma Brown went to church. The following is a list of Pierces buried at Mt. Carmel: W.E (Willie) Pierce-1884-1965 -Nephew Grandma’s Ova Jeffer Pierce-1893-1918-Willie’s wife- I had meet both of these. Joel N. Pierce -1882-1918 H.M (Matt) Pierce -1854-1924-Grandma’s brother Louise Hendry Pierce -1862-1913 [handwritten] Guy Pierce 1902-1966 - Teddy Pierce 1941-1965 Willie Pierce 1907-1957 Chas Pierce 1883-1959 wife Ida -1884-1952 Chas B Pierce 1887-1942 He and Esther were "cherished" by my grandmother Georga Jackson Hamby.

• Sources

  [S702] A True Story Concerning a Baby Born in Poverty, S. Alice Brown Wiley. [S1610] 1920 Polk Co., IA Census, State Iowa, County Polk, Precinct 6, Des Moines City, s.d. 7. e.d. 109, sheet no. 4B, 7th January 1920 by Lois W. Gould, 1801 Illinois Avenue, line 75, 77/77 BROWN Claudian Head OM MW 23 M /yes/yes Arkansas Tennessee United States Truck driver/Oil Company. [S1384] 1930 Oakland Co., MI Census, State Michigan, County Oakland, Southfield Township, e.d. 63-125, s.d. 14, sheet no. 10A/68A, April 10, 1930 by Earl J King, 280 Marshall, [two other families: St Peter and Oswald], line 20, 206/211 BROWN Claud M. Head R 35 R mo MW 32 M 21 no/yes Arkansas Tennessee Tennessee Tunnel? Man/ Sewer? Co.. [S1580] Social Security Death Index online, Claude BROWN 27 Feb 1897 Jun 1974 64854 (Noel, Mcdonald, MO) (none specified) 351-10-5926 Illinois. [S2724] McDonald Co., MO, Pineville Cemetery, Pineville, Pineville Cemetery online transcription, (noted 16 April 2005), BROWN, Claude Feb 28, 1897-Jun 4, 1974 Pvt. U.S. Army.