Welcome to Adolphus ‘Cotton’ and Pinky Brown web site. This web site is not Webmaster dominated, each family in your geographical area may input any   Information you wish to share with other family members; however, we need  Some stability and accountability, so it is suggested that the head of each family Or appointed designee is the only one to record any information that one might  See necessary (i.e. for myself, I will be the one designated to input).

Adolphus Brown was the oldest known relative of five generations. He was born A slave in Gordon County Georgia in 1845.He lived in Quitman, Georgia for sometime On what was known as “The Brown Plantation” (His former slave owner). He married Pinky Caldwell who was born in 1860.Together they reared nine children. After slavery, Adolphus continue to live on the Brown Plantation, becoming a prosperous farmer /  Share cropper. Edmund was the oldest known son, and Pinky, or Ida, either one,  according to the 1910 census could have been the oldest daughter.They were not part of Adolphus household at that time.

Being a prosperous farmer/share cropper he and Pinky, a devoted wife/farm worker/house Keeper/maid, lived with their children on the plantation with them and farm the land.  Eventually It was said that Adolphus grew more cotton than anybody else in Georgia.  Thus the name:COTTON BROWN.

In the early 1920’s he left the farm and he and pinky journeyed north. They stayed  only for a while. He then went to New Jersey “with a croaker sack filled with  money “as told by CORA LEE MITCHELL, in 1980 when the first family reunion was held.

Adolphus returned south became ill and died shortly afterwards. So in his memory, in  1998-Felicia Brown Jamison, his son Edmund’s youngest child named her company-COTTON  BROWN ENTERPRISE,In his honor.



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