Note mention of Rebecca Stuart Brown below:

County of Christian, Kentucky. Historical and Biographical. Edited by William Henry Perrin. F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884, pp. 348-349.

THOMAS F. BROWN. Among the old and numerous families of Christian County, Ky., is that of Thomas and Rebecca Brown, the former of whom was born in Rockingham County, Va., where at an early age he was left an orphan. He learned the trade of blacksmith, at which he engaged the most of his life. He was in the war of 1812, after which he came to Kentucky, and settled in Christian County, nine miles east of Hopkinsville, on the Russelville road. He married Rebecca Stuart, daughter of Gravner and Jane (Fields) Stuart, who came in an early day from North Carolina, settling in Christian County. To Thomas Brown at his home east of Hopkinsville were born fifteen children; later the family removed further west, in Casky Precinct, where Thomas died in 1855, and Rebecca in 1869. Their children were: Andrew J., Nancy S. (widow of Jeremiah Allcox), Absolom, Gravner S., Augustus W., Robert S., William, John A. F., Thomas F., Samuel M., Sarah S., Jane, Milton D., James Henry Brown, and an infant which died unnamed. James H. and Jane died in childhood, and the other members lived to be grown, and in 1859, in the fair grounds of Christian County were seen ten of these bearded-faced sons mounted upon white steeds, arrayed in similar dress, and presenting a scene so rare as to cause extensive newspaper comment. Thomas F. is the ninth of this family, and was born October 8, 1828. In early life he devoted several years in school-teaching, but in 1855 began the mercantile business in Hopkinsville, where he soon after sustained a loss of his business from fire. In 1858, however, he again opened a grocery business, which he prosecuted for some years with success, associated in the meantime with his brother, J. A. F. Brown, under the firm name of J. A. F. Brown & Bro. He was married in Christian County, March 12, 1868, to Emma Davidge, daughter of Judge R. and Martha (Dallam) Davidge. She was born in 1838. They have but one child, named Robert Henry Brown, born February 1, 1869. Mr. Brown is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and his wife is a member of the Southern Presbyterian Church. His portrait appears in this volume.