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County when the 1812 Tax Roll was made. And third, Jane Davis’ parents did live in southwest AL, where we know Robert Brown and his father were living when Fort Mimms fell in
1813.	Possibly, Robert Brown met James Davis while serving in the War of 1812. We are satisfied that Jane Davis was bom in Perry County, MS in 1813, as her census record states, around the time her father was discharged from the military in AL, and after he moved to Mississippi. Also, the names of the brothers and sisters of Jane Davis were some of the same names Robert Brown and Jane Davis passed on to their children. Additionally, our Jane Davis’ year of birth fits in with the other children bom to James Davis and Elizabeth Daughdrill. Only one living descendant of Robert Brown and Jane Davis could remember far enough back to verify this information. Miss Elizabeth Hariel, great-granddaughter of Robert Brown and Jane Davis, bom on December 27, 1891 and residing in the Crane Creek community of Hancock County told us the following on August 21, 1973. She said that she well remembers being related to a “Zach Daughdrill” who married old “Aunt Caroline Davis” and lived near Perkinston, MS. She also remembers being related to an “Anderson” family that lived in or around Perry County MS.
With Jane Davis bom in (or around) the year 1813 in Perry County, MS, her place of birth was actually in what was then Washington County, Mississippi Territory, before Alabama became a state in 1819. Washington County AL, and Greene County, MS, share a border between the two states with Perry County being part of Greene County early on. Jane would have probably married Robert Brown in or around the year 1830 (at around age 17) in Perry County and began her family. This year of marriage is based on the age of her first child. Based on our research, she had 10 children to reach maturity, with at least two others that died as infants in Hancock County after they arrived. Their years of birth started around
1831	to after 1847.
Jane Davis Brown is buried next to her husband in Cedar Grove cemetery with a concrete marker over her grave. On it is written, “Jane Brown, wife of Robert Brown” - no dates. One descendant of Robert Brown, Mrs. Nida Smith Wheat, of Picayune, MS, told us that her grandmother, Rebecca Brown Smith, daughter of Jane Davis Brown, told her that she (Rebecca) was only 11 years old when her mother (Jane Davis Brown) died. She died from medical complications following childbirth. We know Rebecca was bom in 1840 and if she was 11 when her mother died, this would put Jane Davis Brown dying in 1851. She did not show up in the 1870 census, thus she died before that year for certain.
Jane Davis, supposedly of “English” origin, had red hair according to family members. It was she who passed the red hair to several of her children. The red hair is still being passed on into current generations — Jerry’s mother, Velma Zengarling Heitzmann, Ethel Ladner Favre, and others. Jane Davis Brown is also said to have had fair complexion and blue eyes.
Robert Brown is said to have had blue eyes and medium brown hair. He was “blind” for the latter part of his life and lived with his daughter, Jane E. Hutchinson. He was a farmer by profession and a member of the Baptist faith as were all his children. One descendant of Robert Brown, Eugenia Landrum Gordon, told us in 1971 that the Browns were of “Scots-Irish” descent.
Robert and Jane Brown left Perry County MS, in or around the year 1845 and settled in Hancock County, MS, in the area near Gainesville, MS. This is where the Stennis Space Center is located on the county line between Hancock and Pearl River County. According to Hancock County Sectional Index and Tract Book #1, page 98, Robert Brown applied for U.S.
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