WILLIAM HENRY BROWN & ELIABETH EMERLINE HOUGH
ELIZABETH EMERLINE HOUGH Birth 1848 Alabama - Death 1905 Harrison County, Texas
BOTH GUM SPRINGS CEMETERY, HARRISON COUNTY, TEXAS
PARENTS OF WILLIAM HENRY BROWN
Father: PINKNEY GREEN WOOD BROWN
Mother: ELIZABETH COLEMAN
PARENTS OF ELIZABETH EMERLINE HOUGH- (CALLED EMERLINE)
Father: THOMAS HOUGH FROM PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
Mother: SUSAN SNIDER FROM ALABAMA

Thomas Hough & Susan Snider Hough & infant daughter Drucilla Hough traveled by wagon train to Republic of Texas in 1839.
Pinkney "Pinky" Green Wood Brown - Age 34 - Male
Farmer - Value Real Estate Owned 150 Acres - Birth Georgia;
Elizabeth Brown - Age 37 - Female - Birth Alabama -
Person over 20 years can not read or write.
Wm H. Brown - Age 3 - Birth Texas;
Thomas E. Brown - Age 1 - Male - Birth Texas;
Owen R. Brown - Age 3/12 - Male - Birth Texas.
Source: U. S. Federal Census November 21 - 23, 1850
Shelby County, Texas.
Texas Marriages Collection, 1814 - 1909.
Ancestry.com Marriage Records.
W. H. Brown and E. Hough married August 23, 1865,
Panola County, Texas. Elizabeth Emerline Hough
was 16 and William Brown was 18 when they
married with Emerline parents approval.
William and Emerline Brown's Children:
1. R. T. Brown: b 1866 Panola County, Texas
- d unknown date in Texas. Listed only in 1870
U.S. Census Panola County, Texas.
2. Dallas Zacharia Brown: b 1867 Panola County, Texas
- d 1940 Marshall, Harrison County, Texas. In 1889
Dallas Brown married (1) Anna English, daughter
of Mexico Texian John English and Sarah Luker.
Dallas and Anna had three living children by 1900,
They were William, Hillman Newton, Leroy. One child
had died. Anna died in 1903. Dallas Brown married
(2) Minnie Lee Miller, daughter of George Miller and
Sally Golden about 1905. She had a young son named
Birl Ritter whom Dallas loved as his own. Dallas
and Minnie had several children: Emma, George, Ernest,
Clifford and Annie Brown. Dallas and Minnie at rest Pope
Cemetery, Harrison County, Texas, as are some of their
children.
3. Alice (Alise by phonetic spelling on census) Brown:
b 1869 Panola County, Texas - d unknown. Listed in 1870 Census
Panola County, Texas as one year of age. Burial unknown.
4. Mariah Brown: b 1870 Panola County, Texas - d 1888/1889 Panola County, Texas from illness. Married Matthew "Matt" Lafayette Thomas 1887 Panola County, Texas. Burial Panola County unknown location. A few years later Matt married Mariah's sister Etta Julia Brown with the blessing of her parents, who loved and respected Matt.
5. Sanford McClendon Brown: b 1873 Panola County, Texas - d 1934 Louisiana. Sanford Brown and Mattie Ana Luker married 1896 in Texas. Sanford's occupation was Oilfield Worker. They had one child who died young. Their other children: James, Ida, Ollie, and Diamond Jewel Brown. Sanford and Mattie Luker Brown are at rest in Sardis Cemetery, Rapides Parish, Louisiana.
6. Hannah Emma Brown: b 1873 Panola County, Texas - d 1935 unknown Texas.
Her first name of Hannah is spelled phonetically "Hanna" on 1930 Census. Married Archie Rodgers 1888, Carthage, Panola County, Texas. Archie Rodgers: b 1861 Alabama - d unknown Texas. Archie and Hannah Brown Rodgers burial place unknown. Daughter Eulalia Emma Rodgers: b 1888 Clayton, Panola County, Texas - d 1956 Houston, Harris County, Texas. Married Joe Tidwell in 1904, Panola County, Texas. They had nine children. Eulalia and Joe Tidwell at rest in Union Springs Cemetery, Corrigan, Polk County, Texas.
7. ETTA JULIA BROWN: b 1876 Panola County, Texas - d 1913 Harrison County, Texas. Etta Julia Brown, age 15, married MATTHEW LAFAYETTE THOMAS (CALLED MATT), age 24, a young farmer. She died from chronic asthma at age 38. Etta Brown was laid to rest in Walnut Creek Cemetery, Diana, Upshur County, Texas. Matt was devastated at the loss of his dear wife. He was left with their six children to care for. The children were all devoted to family with Christian values and remained very close to their father through his lifetime.
Matt Thomas passed away from malaria in 1933. Matt Thomas is at rest in Centerview Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas, where four of their six children are buried. Bessie Mattie (Thomas) Smith is at rest by her husband, near her mother 's grave, in Walnut Creek Cemetery. Ira Mae (Thomas) Parker is by her husband James "Jim" Parker in Pineland Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas.
8. William Henderson Brown: b 1877 Panola County, Texas - d 1939 Carthage, Panola County, Texas. Married Alabama "Bama" Dill in 1899, Panola County, Texas. They had three children: Annie Mae Brown, Bennie Ervin Brown and Nealy Brown. William and Alabama "Bama" Dill Brown, and son Bennie Ervin Brown are at rest in Garden of Memories, Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas.
9. Amanda Victoria Brown: b 1879 Panola County, Texas - d 1956 Jefferson, Marion County, Texas. Married John Spradley 1898 Texas. John was a Barber and a farmer. John and Victoria Brown Spradley are at rest in New Prospect Cemetery, Jefferson, Marion County, Texas.

Bio By Mary Wright Davies