Okay, thanks Jim. Anna ----- Original Message ----- From: "JAMES O BRASHER" <jims505@msn.com> To: <mo-stlouis-metro@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:53 PM Subject: Re: [MO-STLOUIS-METRO] Betty Mae Brown-Part one > Hi Anna: > > My first Brown came to America in 1865 from Manchester England, his name was Edward, he settled in Silver Mines then moved farther south not to many years later. He was the second to last tree member to come to America. The newest members to America were my Vies, also from England. The Rest of my tree hit our shores in the 1600s.----Jim > ----- Original Message ----- > From: brewer1954@earthlink.net<mailto:brewer1954@earthlink.net> > To: mo-stlouis-metro@rootsweb.com<mailto:mo-stlouis-metro@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 3:15 PM > Subject: Re: [MO-STLOUIS-METRO] Betty Mae Brown-Part one > > > Hi James, > > My Brown's were from Shannon County, plus others, in Missouri. Ours came > from Virginia to Kentucky to Tennesee and landed in southern Missouri. Some > of the family went to northern Missouri after they crossed the Mississippi. > My branches from Shannon County, MO are Thomas and William Henry Brown. > Their parents were Jacob and Rebecca (Smallwood) Brown, both born in > Virginia. Jacob's father was James M. Brown. There were like 14 of these > kids. Does any of this match any of your information? > > Thanks for your time and God bless, > > Anna/MO > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "JAMES O BRASHER" <jims505@msn.com<mailto:jims505@msn.com>> > To: "mo-stlouis-metro-l rootsweb" <mo-stlouis-metro-l@rootsweb.com<mailto:mo-stlouis-metro-l@rootsweb.com>> > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:00 PM > Subject: [MO-STLOUIS-METRO] Betty Mae Brown-Part one > > > > The Browns > > > > I started my search for the "Brown" branch on my family tree about five > years ago in 2002 only to discover that it was like trying to find a tree > limb that had broken off the family tree and floated down stream in a flood > of other Brown families, a search so aggravating it was like slogging > through a boggy bottom of pure Mississippi flood plain mud. But being a man > of pure steel, I slogged on mightily and persevered. > > > > OK, I may be stretching that just a little mite, but I did > provide the leg work for one Megan Smolenyak who is a professional > Genealogist back in New Jersey and writes some pretty good stories for > Ancestry Dot Com Magazine. One of which is the story about how I found the > whole missing tribe of the Poplar Bluff Browns who I couldn't find, no > matter where I searched for five years. In the story are two pictures, one > is a picture of my gr-grandfather, Septimus Brown, the other picture is of > his third wife, Mary Ellen Berry and is the picture found in the junkyard. > To read that story, go to the following site: > > > > > http://www.ancestrymagazine.com/2007/03/found/she-had-me-at-junkyard/<http://www.ancestrymagazine.com/2007/03/found/she-had-me-at-junkyard/<http://www.ancestrymagazine.com/2007/03/found/she-had-me-at-junkyard/%3Chttp://www.ancestrymagazine.com/2007/03/found/she-had-me-at-junkyard/>> > > > > > > > > Now then, being a humble man and not one to brag, I feel it's my patriotic > duty to point out that in the March 2007 issue of Ancestry Dot Com Magazine, > Susan Sarandon got top billing over my family story by seven full pages. Her > story, "Susan Catches Wales," about her origins in Wales, appears on page > 39, my story, "She Had Me at Junkyard," appears on page 46. The point is; at > the end of each story "Ancestry" allows for comments. Her story received No > comments, my story was the highest rated at 26 comments. > > > > Guess all this means, is that because of some of her comments > in the media, most folks are hoping she might want to return to her family > roots, although no one said so in so many words. > > > > Betty Mae Brown > > > > Betty Mae Brown; what can you say about Betty Mae Brown? I know what I can > say about Betty Mae Brown, Brasher, Stephenson. I can say plenty. > > > > > > > > The first thing I can say is that she was my father's mother. Then I can > say that her life was like a beautiful opera done by a mighty orchestra > known across the land for its mellifluous sounds that poured out of the > honey dispenser of life like a warm, sweet, smooth flowing stream that > saturated life's pancake to anyone's great satisfaction. I could then add > that when she moved to Hollywood, back in the 1920s, she became one of > America's most revered movie actresses. > > > > But if I said all that, I'd be lying like a low down dirty dog > and some unkind person might come along and say, "Jim, you're so full of > baloney, you ought to be hung no later than next Tuesday." The only thing > true about the above paragraph is that she was my father's mother. Betty > Mae's life was more like a discordant heavy metal rock band in the final > throes of its own agonizing demise from brittle rickets rather than a smooth > flowing Symphony. And smooth flowing? "No," more like a mud slide of sticky > honey with a hornet, butt up, just waiting for an unsuspecting person to > take a bite of her life's pancake. > > > > There was no denying she had the power to make many innocent > manly hearts to beat like tom toms at her approach because her physical > attributes were many. She was in a single word, "beautiful," at least on the > outside. However, inside she was a wrinkled witch that would soon be found > out by many misguided males who thought they would venture just one chamber > of their heart. The ones who stuck around soon discovered they were in dire > need of a complete heart transplant. She was mostly vain and self centered. > > > > The male of this story that concerns me most was Betty Mae's > first husband, Ralph Waldo Brasher Sr, my grandfather who was also not > wholly loved by everyone in the family; Ralph could be rather thorny himself > at times. But know this; I loved this thorny, aggravating, bigoted, old > grump very much, because he was my teacher in life and never gave up on me > no matter how goofy I acted. He was just as ready to smack me in the mouth > at thirty three as he was when I was sixteen, simply because he cared. > "Confound it," that man was a trial in my life, without him I could have > become as famous a gangster as my uncle Bow Wow. 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