Hezekiah Brown
Hezekiah Brown, farmer, is a son of Hezekiah Brown, a native of Virginia, who came in about 1820, and settled on land now owned by his sons in this township. He devoted himself to farming, and died in January, 1877, at the good old age of eighty-five. His wife still lives in this township.
Our subject was born in August, 1844, on this farm, where he has always lived and followed farming for a livelihood. In 1868 he married Parmelia, daughter of Otho Lyons, of this township, who bore him two children: Owen Newton and Orville Guy. Mrs. Brown is a member of the Christian Church. He is a member of New Holland Lodge, No. 392, F. & A. M.; is a Democrat, politically; owns one hundred and fifty-nine acres of land on the Bloomingburg pike, which is well improved, and farms to grain and stock.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County