This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Jh.2ADI/1313.1 Message Board Post: There were two Thomas A Browns in Brown Co just as you said. And there is a mix of descendants of both families in Shiloh Cem. The Brown Co Cem book compiled by Helen & Kenneth Reeve does a very good job of identifying which family each one comes from. Thomas Andrew who married Mary O'Neal (they came to Brown Co from Jackson Co about 1838) was my 3rd great-grandfather, and I have a great deal of information on his familiy as does a distant cousin of mine. So far as either of us knows there is no connection whatsoever between the two Thomas Browns. The "Sandy" M Brown that you mention is Alexander Martin Brown, son of Thomas and Susannah McKinney. I was not aware of the court case you mentioned involving Sandy and Elisha (son of my Thomas). Copies can be obtained from the Brown Co Historical Society where those documents are carefully filed and maintained. If you should happen to get those copies I'd be interested in having a copy also and will gladly pay for them.