By request. Source: 1881 History Of Grundy County, Missouri. Rev. D. C. Brown, son of Jacob A. and Sarah (Clanton) Brown, p. 714-15 REV. D. C. BROWN D C Brown was born in Harrison County, Missouri, August 21, 1841. His father, Jacob A. Brown, and his mother, whose maiden name was Sarah P. Clanton, were both born in North Carolina, but came to Missouri in 1839, and settled in Harrison County. His father was of English and his mother of Irish descent, and were pillars in the Baptist Church, and his father was deacon of the same for thirty years. Jacob A. Brown was elected one of the first justices of the peace in Harrison County and was a member of the organization of the West Fork Association of Baptists, and assisted in drafting the constitution and by-laws for that association. His father died in 1875, and his mother in 1879. They had lived for many years as consistent members of the church, and passed peacefully to their reward, their loss from earth being mourned by many true friends. The subject of our sketch lived at home till eighteen years of age, then, on October 4, 1859, was united in marriage to Miss Martha J. Cole, who was born October 4, 1839, in Monroe County, Missouri. She was a daughter of William and Mary Ann Cole, nee Kellums. Her parents settled in Monroe County, in the year 1837, and her mother died in 1861, and her father in 1875. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have been the parents of ten children, eight of whom are living; viz., Louisa A., born July 6, 1860, now the wife of John Dowell; Jacob J., born September 15, 1866: Sarah E., born August 23, 1868; Mary, born March 16, 1872; Nancy E., born February 27, 1874; Thomas, born March 18, 1876; Henry A., born August 7, 1878; D. 0., born February 18, 1881; and John, who died when thirteen months old, and one in infancy. During the war Mr. B. was a member of company F, Second Missouri cavalry; served three and a half years, and was with the regiment in all its various engagements. While in the line of duty he was taken prisoner in Arkansas, and compelled to travel five hundred miles barefooted, and is yet badly crippled from the effects of that march. After the close of the war he farmed in Daviess County until 1876, and then located in Grundy County, where he owns a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, besides two hundred and eighty acres in Taylor township. He began laboring as a minister in 1870, and in 1871 was ordained. He is still an active worker in Harrison County. After the war he employed every leisure hour in study, and thus qualified himself for the responsible position he now holds.