Historical information regarding Brown Cemetery from Dan Dugger
The Brown Cemetery is located on the Solomon property near the new Powell Drive. My great grandparents, John and Luvania Dugger, and an uncle Daniel Dugger, are buried there. The Brown family ancestors are also buried there. There are probably as many as 40 graves there. Back in the late 1950s several of the monuments were stolen and reportedly refmished for use by other people, one of those stolen was my great grandfather’s. My great grandmother and uncle died within two days of one another. A story told to me by descendants of two of John’s sons who moved to Illinois shortly after the Civil War is that Union renegades came through the area in June of 1865 while most of the family was out working. They killed Luvania and Daniel and broke every dish in the house. Shortly after that Uncle Jim and Uncle Bill went to Illinois. How true this is I do not know, but there is a record of Hardy Brown’s barn being burned at that time by Union renegades even though he fought in the Union Army and was seriously wounded. One of the reasons is that they may have thought he was a Confederate sympathizer because Columbus Powell who donated the land for Powell Station Railroad depot and whose home is now owned by the Gill family was a Confederate Colonel responsible for recruiting in the area. One of John Dugger’s relatives married the sister of Columbus Powell’s wife. There are also some members of the Trout family and Gentry family as well as maybe some members of a Kelly family buried there. Members of the Trout family went with the Dugger boys to Illinois.