"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
GREGG TOWNSHIP
PAGE 342

RICE EVANS BROWN was born in Oldham County, Ky., January 27, 1819, and is a son
of William and Elizabeth (Wilson) Brown, natives of Virginia, where they married in 1796
 Mr. Brown came to Indiana in 1834, after living in Kentucky for some years, where Mrs.
Brown closed her life in 1829, aged fifty-two years. He afterward married Elizabeth
Phillips, and died in 1854, aged eighty years, in this township. Rice Evans Brown was
reared on the farm, and received the rudiments of education from the subscription schools.
September 7, 1837, he married Ann C., daughter of Bright and Elizabeth Pruitt, by which
union were born to them ten children - William B., Andrew C., Emily S., James M., Sarah
E., Amos (deceased), Alvin H., Almira J., Mary M. (deceased) and Ida May. Mr. Brown
owns and cultivates 160 acres, of which Mrs. Brown inherited eighty from her father.
Three of their sons - William B., Andrew C. and James M. - were soldiers in the late war
 Mr. Brown is a pillar of the Christian Church and a respected citizen.