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Bunyon Francis (B.F.) Brown
b. 1871 d. 1944 & Nancy Louise
Davis d. 1915
Mattie Ida Brown b. 1895 d. 1987
James Robert Paul Brown b. 1904 d. 1982
Bernice Maude Brown b. 1906 d. 1959
Freda Lauristine Brown b. 1912 d. 2005
Nancy Aleen Brown b. 1915 d. 1999
Bunyon Marion Francis (B. F.) and family moved to Bon Jellico
from Crawford, Tennessee in 1915. B.F. was born in Ducktown, Tennessee; his
father
Alfred was
from North Carolina and served with the Union Army, 10th Calvary in the Civil
War. His mother, Martha Arp, had a love for reading and leaning. The Alfred Brown
family moved to Rockwood, Tennessee in the 1870’s. Alfred was disabled
from his war service, and B.F. started working in the mines in Rockwood at an
early age to help support his family. B.F. married Nancy Louise Davis of Rockwood
in the early 1890’s. They lived in Rockwood and several other mining camps
in Northeast Tennessee including Monterey and Crawford where they were neighbors
of several other ‘Bon families’ including the Stouts and Kirklins.
Nancy Davis Brown died in Crawford in 1915 just prior to the family’s moving
to Bon Jellico.
B.F. worked in the Bon Jellico mine until the closure in 1937.
In 1990
Bill Clope,
who worked as his chalk-eye in Rockwood described is as a “hard worker,
and I still believe, the best miner in town. He never had much to say, he smoked
a corn cob pipe, and the strongest tobacco on the market. He could play a mouth
organ, a French harp they called it in those days. Once in a while he would bring
one to the mine and when work was slow he would play a tune or two.” B.F.
retired in 1937 when the Bon Jellico mine closed and the family moved to Emlyn.
He
died there in 1944.
Mattie managed the home and helped raise her siblings after her
mother’s
death. She was a reader, letter writer, and a great storyteller; she instilled
values of integrity and learning, worked in the church, and visited the sick
and shut-ins.
Paul worked
in the coalmines in Bon Jellico and Harlan County. He was married to Ruth
Moore
from Bon
Jellico and later to Pearl Jones from Corbin.
Bernice married
George Stephens and later Carl Wilson. She moved to the ‘big
city’ (Detroit, Michigan). She had a good sense of humor, was a
good cook, and liked the busy city life. Bernice had two children John
and Anne
Marie, who
often visited Bon Jellico when they were very young.
Freda went
to Ohio to work during the war and lived in Norwood and Florida. She was
the family
sewing
and cooking expert and was a ‘master quilter’.
Nancy taught
school in many Whitley County schools including Bon Jellico, Frankfort
#2, Harlan
County, Saxton, Mountain Ash, Nevisdale, Emlyn, and
Williamsburg.
She married Robert Berry Witt of Emlyn. They had two children: Robert
Lamar and Lynn Carol.
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