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136:, served many years as the chief judge in Nelson County, and rose to the rank of General in the local militia. This grandfather Alexander Cabell owned 27 enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1850. His mercantile business also had a Richmond office, operating as Brown & McClelland (with James Bruce McClelland (1827-1862, who died of typhoid fever contracted in Confederate service) In 1860, he moved to Richmond and only owned one enslaved mulatto man aged 45 in Nelson County.
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Margaret Baldwin Cabell (1826-1877). By 1860 Robert L. Brown moved his growing family to Lynchburg where he and his second wife operated "The Lynchburg Female Seminary". They owned slaves, including a 30 year old Black woman, This
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Washington D.C. immediately after the war (1865-1868), then in 1869 returned to Nelson County and became a farmer as well as merchant. His father returned to Nelson County in 1870 and was connected with Norwood High School, since
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Callaway Brown (1820-1849) and her husband Robert Lawrence Brown (1820-1880), the eldest of their three children, but his brother and sister died as infants. His paternal grandfather, also named Alexander Brown (1796-1864), was born near
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