Finding Aid to the Quaker Family Records

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
QUAKER FAMILY RECORDS
by Alexander Brown
The book contains manuscript notes and maps on the genealogy of the following
Lynchburg families: Anthony, Clark, Lynch, Moorman, and Terrell.
ALEXANDER BROWN (1843-1906)
Alexander Brown was born at "Glenmore" in Nelson County, VA, on 5 September
1843. He was the son of Robert Lawrence & Sarah Cabell Callaway. His mother died on
25 July 1849, leaving three children. Robert Brown remarried in 1853, to Margaret
Baldwin Cabell. Their union produced eight more children. The Browns moved to
Lynchburg in 1860, where they ran "The Lynchburg Female Seminary" for some years.
During that year, Alexander attended "Old" Lynchburg College.
Alexander was reared by his grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Cabell Callaway. He was
educated by private tutors, as a youngster, but attended the school of Horace W. Jones
from 1856-1860, at which time he entered "Old" Lynchburg College. He enlisted in the
army of the CSA; he was wounded in a powder-boat explosion at Fort Fisher, NC, in
1864 which rendered him nearly deaf.
After the war, he was a salesman in Washington, DC, but due to his deafness he
returned to Nelson County and took up farming. During these years he devoted most of
his time to historical research and writing about Virginia's early period. Among his
writings were New Views of Early Virginia History (1886) and The Genesis of the
United States (1890). He also wrote The Cabells and their Kin (1895).
On 27 December 1873, he married Caroline Augusta Cabell. She died in 1876, and
Brown married Sarah Randolph Cabell. Both were daughters of Mayo and Caroline
Anthony Cabell. His death came on 25 August 1906.
SOURCES: Brown, Alexander. The Cabells and their Kin. Richmond, VA: Garrett & Massie, Inc., 1939;
Wertenbaker, Thomas J. Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. III (New York: Scribner's & Sons,
1929), p. 103.

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