Teri, I wish I could help, but I' haven't scratched the surface on the Brown line. As I recall, I have 2 different Browns merging into my line, but I'm too new at the genealogy game to have explored all the surnames to any great extent. I can tell you that Goodspeed's 1887 History of Coffee County lists among the counties early settlers one Joseph Brown, a merchant in business prior to 1840. An even earlier settler, James M. Brown was in neighboring Cannon County, possibly as early as 1809. James was the Cannon County court clerk 1839-1840. II recently submitted lists of all the Coffee and Cannon county Brown families that existed in 1850 and 1860 because there are SO many Browns out there. I believe the list is posted on USgenweb.com. Sorry I can't be of more assistance. Jim