Part 5: The Brown Beasley Feud

One of the Brown's Horses in 1900

We talked about Lacey Brown of 1803 and born in Orange County, Va . We talked about the Lacey Brown that founded Stony Point. Now we will talk about Nick Brown that was the son of the 1803 Lacey Brown. The 1803 Lacey Brown  was my Great,  Great, Great Grand Father. He had my Great Great Grandfather Nick Brown who had my Great Grandfather  Lacey Brown II, who had my Grandfather John Brown.  He had my mother Jean Brown Williams.

Just in these 5 Generations, the nation went from walking from place to place, to riding horse from place to place, to riding trains, to driving cars, then to flying air planes.  My generation dreamed of flying space ships and going to the moon.

 

Darnell Williams watching a Saturn 5 going to the moon in July 1969

Lacey Brown and his people came from the direction of Rt. 20 toward the west into the southern part of Stony Point and Free Union. This part was known as "Brown Town" because of the amount of Brown family members that lived in the area.  From what I believe, "Brown Town" covered areas as far away as "Profits, Va."


They were extremely bright and intelligent people.   

The Brown Beasley Feud    

In the Lacey Brown II generation, the Browns were known as good looking attractive men who rode big White Horses.  If this was in today's terms, they would be said to drive nice looking Mercedes or Bentley's.  That presented a problem with families that had nice looking women. In these days, it was a stigma to have your daughter with child without a husband. In the 21st Century, few people would care.  This is how much society ideas have changed in the past 100 years. 

 Old man Beasley had some nice looking daughters that had their eye on the Browns. The Brown boys had their eye on the Beasley girls. That caused old man Beasley to get his gun and open fire on the Brown's when they came around. In response the Brown went home and got their guns. The war was on, firing their weapons at old man Beasley.  Depending on who you talk to, you would hear who won the battle.

The KKK in Uniform

Rev. Daniel Brown of Free Union Baptist Church in the 19th/20th Century

In Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society that they christen the “Ku Klux Klan.” The KKK rapidly grew from a secret social fraternity to a paramilitary force bent on reversing the federal government’s progressive Reconstruction Era-activities in the South, especially policies that elevated the rights of the local African American population.

The name of the Ku Klux Klan was derived from the Greek word kyklos, meaning “circle,” and the Scottish-Gaelic word “clan,” which was probably chosen for the sake of alliteration. Under a platform of philosophized white racial superiority, the group employed violence as a means of pushing back Reconstruction and its enfranchisement of African Americans. 

Former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was the KKK’s first grand wizard; in 1869, he unsuccessfully tried to disband it after he grew critical of the Klan’s excessive violence. 

Remember, this is a mixed church. Plus the law in Va. says that Natives and Africans are Negroes. 

https://books.google.com/books?id=tcEyMwIpgRMC&pg=PA215&lpg=PA215&dq=integration+and+the+kkk&source=bl&ots=uVrDR16z0n&sig=4qtOpp1IpfPTq5TIiupV4W2WEN4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEwQ6AEwCGoVChMImJzbl8PMyAIVymw-Ch3YOAI1#v=onepage&q=integration%20and%20the%20kkk&f=false

Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s

People in this era called themselves Negroes because this is what the state called them. Many of them knew that they were part or all Indian natives but went along with the national and state thinking.