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Howard H. Brown, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Pontotoc County, Miss., in 1843, and is a son of Usrey and Lucinda (Eaves) Brown, natives of Maringo County, Ala., where they lived until after their marriage. They then made a home in Mississippi until 1958, when they removed to Hempstead County, Ark. In 1872 they came to Sebastian County, Ark. The father was a successful farmer, and died in 1882, aged sixty-eight. His widow is still living, and is now seventy-two years old. The maternal grandfather, Howard H. Eaves, was a blacksmith and well-borer, and was born in Georgia. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and bored many artesian wells in Mississippi. He was of Portuguese parentage, and his father fought in the Revolution. Howard H. Brown is the fourth of a family of eleven children, and in 1859 he accompanied his parents to Hempstead County, Ark. At the breaking out of the war he joined Company I, Twelfth Arkansas Infantry, with which he fought at Belmont, Mo., Island No. 10 and Farmington. He was discharged in August, 1862, on account of disability, but in March, 1863, re-enlisted and went to Texas, where he joined Gen. Magruder’s escort company of cavalry, with which he remained until the close of the war. He was at the surrender at Houston, Tex., and served most of the time as a courier. After the war he returned home, and in 1868 he married Mary E., daughter of Willis W. Nolen [see sketch]. Mrs. Brown was born in Hempstead County, and her union with Mr. Brown has been blessed with six sons and two daughters, all living, and the oldest daughter married to A. M. Nowlen, of Hackett City. Mr. Brown came to Sebastian County in 1869, and although he began life at twenty-two, after the war, with nothing , he now owns 225 acres of well-improved land, and is a substantial citizen. He owns 500 acres of land in all, and has the most of his property by selling and improving land. He is a Democrat, and a member of the Oak Bower Masonic Lodge No. 277. He is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and all of his family before him belonged to the same church.