Edward Norphlet Brown Sr. was born 15 May 1830 in Warren County, Georgia to Washington Hardaway Brown and Cynthia Walker. He had 3 brothers and 1 sister. On 28 Dec 1858 he married Frances Elizabeth Long, the daughter of Nimrod Ainwood Washington Long of Alabama. According to his personal description, he was 6’1” tall, 160 lbs with dark hair and grey eyes. He graduated from Franklin College in 1854. He was a Methodist by faith and a democrat in politics. He served as a captain in the confederate army in the 45th Alabama Regiment and in the Alabama legislature in 1881, 1882, 1894 and 1895. Frances Elizabeth Long was born on 31 Dec 1838 in Uchee, Alabama to Nimrod Ainwood Washington Long and Catharine Davis. She married Edward N. Brown on 28 Dec 1858 in Barbour County, Alabama. Frances was described as being low in stature with black hair and hazel eyes. She graduated from East Alabama College at Tuskegee in 1857. She died 7 April 1889 in Columbus, Georgia and was buried in Hurtsboro, Alabama. The children of Edward and Frances are as follows: Laura N. Brown was born 28 June 1860 in Culverton, Georgia, to Edward Brown and Frances Long. She graduated from Alabama College in Tuskegee in 1877. She married Charles Owens on 15 July 1886. She was described as being tall and fair with dark hair and black eyes. She died 21 June 1892 in childbirth in Hurtsboro and is buried in Hurtsboro. Edward Norphlet Brown Jr. was born 23 March 1862 in Barbour County and married 2 Dec 1885 Thacker Walker, daughter of Dr. William Walker of Pivoli, Alabama. He graduated from Auburn in 1882 as a civil engineer. He was the General Superintendent of the Mexican National Railroad and later president of Mexican Railroads, the head of the Pere Marquette Railroad, the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, the Chicago, Rock Island Railroad and the Pacific Railroad. He died at age 94 in New York. Gatra Brown was born 3 March 1866 in Hurtsboro, Alabama and finished school in Eufaula in 1884. She died 7 Feb 1887 in Birmingham of pneumonia and was buried in Hurtsboro. Nimrod Washington Long Brown was born 29 April 1868 in Hurtsboro and graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1892. He was a civil engineer and married Marion Johnston of Atlanta on 2 Nov 1894. Lucy Brown was born 23 Jan 1872 in Hurtsboro and graduated from Wesleyan Female College in Macon, Georgia in 1890. She married Dr. Walter B. Hendrick on 9 Jan 1896. She died 28 June 1897 in Hurtsboro after a complication of pregnancy. Frances Catharine Brown was born 12 March 1875 in Hurtsboro. She graduated Wesleyan Female College in Macon in 1892. She married Robert Reid of Tuskegee, Alabama on 28 Dec 1899. Margaret Mary Brown was born 21 Nov 1878 in Hurtsboro and attended Wesleyan and Tuskegee, Alabama. Kate Hendrick was the daughter of Dr. Walter B. Hendrick and Margaret Mary Brown, born on 12 July 1912 in Hurtsboro, Alabama. She graduated from the University of Chattanooga with a music degree. She never married and lived in the family home on Church St. in Hurtsboro till she died on 2 Dec 1997. Her siblings included Laulie Hendrick, Walter B. Hendrick, Hazel Hendrick and Gatra Hendrick.