Son of Randall R. Brown and Susanna Emerson. Husband of Stella Seed.
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Community Mourns Death of Robison Brown
This community and county were shocked and distressed Sunday as death suddenly claimed Robison Brown, land commissioner of the University of Alabama, and long prominent in the civic, educational and religious affairs of this section. Mr. Brown died of heart failure Sunday morning at 9 o'clock in his home on Seventh Street.
Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 5:30 o'clock from the First Baptist Church with interment in the Evergreen Cemetery. Mr. Brown was 68 years old and a descendant of one of the earliest and most prominent families in Tuscaloosa County history.
The son of the late Randall R. and Susanna (Emerson) Brown, Mr. Brown was born January 18, 1871 at Olmstead, Ala., a community between Cottondale and Coaling in this county. He attended the McAdory Academy in Jefferson County. Following his prep school training, Mr. Brown entered the University of Alabama, receiving his A.B. degree in 1890, and a law degree in 1893.
Mr. Brown married Miss Stella Seed at Tuscaloosa January 10, 1893. His children are as follows; Kathrina, wife of the Rev. W.K.E. James, of Tuscaloosa, Mrs. Charles W. Campbell of Jacksonville, Fla., Mrs. Campbell Keyser of Morristown, N.J., Mrs. H.R. McCracken of Chattanooga, Tenn., Robison Brown, Jr., of Jackson, Miss., Lieut. Commander Charles R. Brown, U.S. Navy Station at Long Beach, Cal., and 13 grandchildren, among them being Cordett Brown Keith, daughter of the late Mrs. Alston Keith of Selma.
Also surviving are his two brothers, Judge James O. Brown, Register in Chancery for Tuscaloosa County, and Pelham D. Brown, clerk in the Register's office, a half brother, W.R. Brown of this county, and a sister, Mrs. G. Randolph of Abilene, Texas.
Active pallbearers for the funeral will be Tom Ward, Dr. R.E. Tidwell, Dr. V.P. McKinley, Dr. J.P. Montgomery, Marvin Copeland, John McGill, Dr. W.W. Deal and W.H. Nicol.
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from the "Tuscaloosa News", August 14, 1939
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Community Mourns Death of Robison Brown
This community and county were shocked and distressed Sunday as death suddenly claimed Robison Brown, land commissioner of the University of Alabama, and long prominent in the civic, educational and religious affairs of this section. Mr. Brown died of heart failure Sunday morning at 9 o'clock in his home on Seventh Street.
Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 5:30 o'clock from the First Baptist Church with interment in the Evergreen Cemetery. Mr. Brown was 68 years old and a descendant of one of the earliest and most prominent families in Tuscaloosa County history.
The son of the late Randall R. and Susanna (Emerson) Brown, Mr. Brown was born January 18, 1871 at Olmstead, Ala., a community between Cottondale and Coaling in this county. He attended the McAdory Academy in Jefferson County. Following his prep school training, Mr. Brown entered the University of Alabama, receiving his A.B. degree in 1890, and a law degree in 1893.
Mr. Brown married Miss Stella Seed at Tuscaloosa January 10, 1893. His children are as follows; Kathrina, wife of the Rev. W.K.E. James, of Tuscaloosa, Mrs. Charles W. Campbell of Jacksonville, Fla., Mrs. Campbell Keyser of Morristown, N.J., Mrs. H.R. McCracken of Chattanooga, Tenn., Robison Brown, Jr., of Jackson, Miss., Lieut. Commander Charles R. Brown, U.S. Navy Station at Long Beach, Cal., and 13 grandchildren, among them being Cordett Brown Keith, daughter of the late Mrs. Alston Keith of Selma.
Also surviving are his two brothers, Judge James O. Brown, Register in Chancery for Tuscaloosa County, and Pelham D. Brown, clerk in the Register's office, a half brother, W.R. Brown of this county, and a sister, Mrs. G. Randolph of Abilene, Texas.
Active pallbearers for the funeral will be Tom Ward, Dr. R.E. Tidwell, Dr. V.P. McKinley, Dr. J.P. Montgomery, Marvin Copeland, John McGill, Dr. W.W. Deal and W.H. Nicol.
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from the "Tuscaloosa News", August 14, 1939
Son of Randall R. Brown and Susanna Emerson. Husband of Stella Seed.
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Community Mourns Death of Robison Brown
This community and county were shocked and distressed Sunday as death suddenly claimed Robison Brown, land commissioner of the University of Alabama, and long prominent in the civic, educational and religious affairs of this section. Mr. Brown died of heart failure Sunday morning at 9 o'clock in his home on Seventh Street.
Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 5:30 o'clock from the First Baptist Church with interment in the Evergreen Cemetery. Mr. Brown was 68 years old and a descendant of one of the earliest and most prominent families in Tuscaloosa County history.
The son of the late Randall R. and Susanna (Emerson) Brown, Mr. Brown was born January 18, 1871 at Olmstead, Ala., a community between Cottondale and Coaling in this county. He attended the McAdory Academy in Jefferson County. Following his prep school training, Mr. Brown entered the University of Alabama, receiving his A.B. degree in 1890, and a law degree in 1893.
Mr. Brown married Miss Stella Seed at Tuscaloosa January 10, 1893. His children are as follows; Kathrina, wife of the Rev. W.K.E. James, of Tuscaloosa, Mrs. Charles W. Campbell of Jacksonville, Fla., Mrs. Campbell Keyser of Morristown, N.J., Mrs. H.R. McCracken of Chattanooga, Tenn., Robison Brown, Jr., of Jackson, Miss., Lieut. Commander Charles R. Brown, U.S. Navy Station at Long Beach, Cal., and 13 grandchildren, among them being Cordett Brown Keith, daughter of the late Mrs. Alston Keith of Selma.
Also surviving are his two brothers, Judge James O. Brown, Register in Chancery for Tuscaloosa County, and Pelham D. Brown, clerk in the Register's office, a half brother, W.R. Brown of this county, and a sister, Mrs. G. Randolph of Abilene, Texas.
Active pallbearers for the funeral will be Tom Ward, Dr. R.E. Tidwell, Dr. V.P. McKinley, Dr. J.P. Montgomery, Marvin Copeland, John McGill, Dr. W.W. Deal and W.H. Nicol.
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from the "Tuscaloosa News", August 14, 1939
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Community Mourns Death of Robison Brown
This community and county were shocked and distressed Sunday as death suddenly claimed Robison Brown, land commissioner of the University of Alabama, and long prominent in the civic, educational and religious affairs of this section. Mr. Brown died of heart failure Sunday morning at 9 o'clock in his home on Seventh Street.
Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 5:30 o'clock from the First Baptist Church with interment in the Evergreen Cemetery. Mr. Brown was 68 years old and a descendant of one of the earliest and most prominent families in Tuscaloosa County history.
The son of the late Randall R. and Susanna (Emerson) Brown, Mr. Brown was born January 18, 1871 at Olmstead, Ala., a community between Cottondale and Coaling in this county. He attended the McAdory Academy in Jefferson County. Following his prep school training, Mr. Brown entered the University of Alabama, receiving his A.B. degree in 1890, and a law degree in 1893.
Mr. Brown married Miss Stella Seed at Tuscaloosa January 10, 1893. His children are as follows; Kathrina, wife of the Rev. W.K.E. James, of Tuscaloosa, Mrs. Charles W. Campbell of Jacksonville, Fla., Mrs. Campbell Keyser of Morristown, N.J., Mrs. H.R. McCracken of Chattanooga, Tenn., Robison Brown, Jr., of Jackson, Miss., Lieut. Commander Charles R. Brown, U.S. Navy Station at Long Beach, Cal., and 13 grandchildren, among them being Cordett Brown Keith, daughter of the late Mrs. Alston Keith of Selma.
Also surviving are his two brothers, Judge James O. Brown, Register in Chancery for Tuscaloosa County, and Pelham D. Brown, clerk in the Register's office, a half brother, W.R. Brown of this county, and a sister, Mrs. G. Randolph of Abilene, Texas.
Active pallbearers for the funeral will be Tom Ward, Dr. R.E. Tidwell, Dr. V.P. McKinley, Dr. J.P. Montgomery, Marvin Copeland, John McGill, Dr. W.W. Deal and W.H. Nicol.
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from the "Tuscaloosa News", August 14, 1939
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