Fulton County, Kentucky
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Robert A. BROWDER
was born to David and Mary (SMITH)BROWDER in Fulton County, KY on the
10th day of August 1840. A farmer, he gave four years of the prime of life
to his country's call in defense of the Southern cause. At the close of
the war, returned to his home in Fulton County and on the 29th day of November,
1870, was married to Miss Phila M. PATTERSON. To this union were born five
children, three of which have long since passed away, there remaining Mrs.
Bessie BENCE and Miss Jesse Hunter BROWDER, now living in Fulton, KY. For
ten years he continued in his chosen avocation on the farm, until failing
health demanded a change to some business of less exposure, and in 1875
moved to Fulton, KY where he has lived incessantly invarious avocations
and serving his friends of the county as Assessor for eight years and Magistrate
five years, which office he now holds. He and his family are all members
of the Methodist church, South, and he is adjutant of Camp Jim Pirtle,
No 990, U.C.V., and has been since its organization in 1897, and has always
manifested great interest in the organization and in helping his more unfortunate
comrades. He is now living in Fulton, KY.
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Submitted by: billco@ARN.NET (Bill Utterback)
Saturday, January 29, 2000
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R. A. Browder
– was born August 10, 1840, four miles west of Fulton. He is the eighth
of eleven children born to David and Mary (Smith) Browde3r, whose sketch
appears above. R. A. was reared on a farm, received a common school education,
and lived with his parents until he enlisted, September 16, 1861, in Company
A, Seventh Kentucky Infantry, Confederate States Army under Capt. J. G.
Pirtle, Charles Wickliffe, colonel commanding. He participated in the following
battles: Shiloh, first bombardment of Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Champions
Hill, siege of Jackson (Miss.), Paducah (Ky.), Brice’s Cross Roads, Athens
(Ala.), Sulphur Trestle and Pulaski, Tenn. He was wounded three times at
Shiloh, in the left hand, right hip and left side; was slightly wounded
in the left wrist at Corinth. He was first under Polk and Cheatham; after
the Battle of Shiloh he was transferred to Breckenridge; then under Joseph
Johnston, and lastly under Buford and Forrest; he enlisted as a private
and was promoted until he reached the rank of third lieutenant. He was
paroled at Columbus, Miss., May 1865, returned home to Fulton County, and
engaged in farming until September 1875, when he took charge of a Grange
store for two years as agent in Fulton. He next went into the tobacco,
farming implement and machinery business, in which he is still engaged.
He established the first planning mill in Fulton, in 1883. Mr. Owns a large
agricultural store, also has an interest in a furniture store. He started
in life with eighty acres of land given him by his father; he is one of
the most industrious and energetic men in Fulton. He was married October
29, 1872, to Miss Philomela Patterson, a native of Indian Territory, reared
in southwest Missouri and daughter of Dr. S. G. and Sarah A. (McDowell)
Patterson, natives of New Hampshire and Missouri, respectively of Scotch-Irish
and Irish origin. To Mr. And Mrs. Browder were born three children, viz.:
Willie McDowell (deceased), Bessie (born March 1881), and Robert Samuel
(born 5 March 1884). Mr Browder and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and he was formerly a member of the Grange and K. of G. C.
“Histories and Biographies of Ballard, Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Hickman,
McCracken and Marshall Counties, Kentucky” – A Reprint of Part II of: Battle,
J. H., W. H. Perrin and G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky: A History of the State.
First Edition. Louisville, Chicago. F.A.Battey Publishing Co., 1885 - pages
185/186
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