Peter Henry Brown born born ca 1822 in North or South Carolina (depending on census). His father may have been named James, his mother or grandmother was a Spearman. Family tradition says he left home at an early age. His father died and his mother remarried. P.H. had known brothers Leroy and Madison. The family lost track of Leroy after the Civil War, Matt worked in Atlanta, Ga. P.H. and his wife Lydia Jones, whom he married in 1841 in Coweta Co. Ga, lived in Ala. near Selma ca 1848, Coweta Co. Ga. 1850, Cherokee Co. Ala. 1860, Sequatchie Co. Tn by 1870. They lived in Walker Co. Ga. when the war broke out. Peter served in Confederate Army as a hospital steward, nursing and buying supplies etc. for the hospital. After the war he was called "Dr. Brown" by many people. Peter and Lydia's children were: Elizabeth E. James Madison Nancy Ann Sarah Jane (mine) Gabriel Spearman Willis Warner Russell Peter Mary Solomon More