This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brown, Pinkerton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DhB.2ACE/998 Message Board Post: I have hit the brick wall. Searching for my GGrandfather's parents. Will Brown was born in either Louisiana or Mississippi in 1865. Reported to have been raised by an aunt Mattie Pinkerton in Louisiana. Came to Texas in 1880. Married Mary Ella Pruitt in 1888, Milam county Texas. Died Thorndale, Milam county Texas in 1932. Doug Kirk