Brownlow Family
William Monroe Brownlow 1815 - 1864
William Monroe Brownlow was born in South Carolina in 1815.
William and Amelia Williams Brownlow married in Early County, GA. in 1843. J.C. Weaver married William and Amelia.
William’s brother, George, stayed in Calhoun Co. Ga. See 1850 Georgia Census. Calhoun County is adjacent to Early County and originally was the same county. William and George probably left South Carolina together, traveling to the southern part of Georgia. George married a local girl, while William married Amelia whose family was likely on a wagon train from Florida to Texas.
They moved immediately to Natchitoches Parrish, Louisiana where their first 5 children Rebecca, Julia Narcissus, Mary Elizabeth, James Monroe, Elias Albert Brownlow, and Jura Brownlow were born.
They moved on to Victoria County, Texas about 1857/8. In the 1860 Victoria County, Texas Census, there is an "N. Williams, age 18, born Florida" living with William and Amelia Brownlow and their children.
In 1860 another baby, Amelia Brownlow II, was born 5 Aug 1860. Williams' wife Amelia died 1860, possibly in child birth.
On the September 25, 1861 Victoria Blues Muster Roll it shows PRIVATE W.W. Brownlow under Capt. Jas. E. FURGUSON. Then, no date, W. M. Brownlow was listed on the Muster Roll as a Sergeant in Company A 24th Brigade, Victoria Blues, Texas State Troops, under Capitan Otto Von Roeder. There were 9 individuals listed on both rolls. Due to the date of record I believe he was active as a Texas Ranger before they became Texas State Troops. This would have been in Capt G.J. Hampton's Company A.
In 1864 William remarried to Melinda Bray. They were married on January 21, 1864, in Victoria County, Texas.
I believe it is possible that sometime after William married Malinda he was called upon to join the fight in Louisiana. It is possible that he was killed in one of several battles near the end of the war. Two possibilites are the Battle of Mansfiled or Pleasant Hill.
While stationed in Louisiana, the Victoria company performed numerous guerrilla raids against the federal army. By far the most significant Louisiana engagements Company A participated in were the Battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill. In the early spring of 1864, Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, commander of the Union forces in Louisiana, began his Red River Campaign that was designed to invade Texas.
William died sometime during these two battles.
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