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Note: Address:<ADDR> 26140 Woodward Lane Denham Springs Louisiana 70726 United States of America
Emerson Mirth Brown was born June 20, 1897 at Gloster, Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Emerson was the first born child and first son of nine children, born to Corrine Blalock and John Melvin Brown. The Brown family were certainly blessed with seven healthy sons, which included a set of twin boys, and two healthy daughters, who were all born at home on their farm in Mississippi. A good description of the Brown Family is the fact that they are very tall, handsome caucasian people, whose ancestors migrated to the United States of America from Ireland and England. Emerson's mother, Corrine Blalock's caucasian ancestors migrated from England, and settled in Mississippi. Corrine had brown eyes, naturally curly, black hair, a fair complexion, and was 5' 8" tall. (The name Blalock means people with black hair). Emerson's father, John Melvin Brown, whose ancestors migrated from Ireland, and settled in Mississippi was a very tall man, who stood about 6' 7" tall. John had a fair complexion, brown eyes, and naturally curly dark brown hair. When the nine children became adults, each reached the height of over 6 foot tall, even the two girls. All nine children possessed fair complexions, brown eyes, and naturally curly dark brown hair, however, some of the children inherited naturally curly, black hair like their mother. The Brown family were well respected Christian people, who believed in God, the teachings of the Holy Bible, and the teachings of the Book of Mormon. They belonged to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. They were Mormons who attended church, had their nine children blessed in the church, and when the children reached a certain age, they were baptized, with the exception of Emerson, who was not baptized until August 11, 1923, the year he was twenty six years old. The Brown family gathered for social meetings in their small community where many of their relatives lived close by. The nine children were sent to school, it is not known how much schooling they had, but all could read and write, including the parents. Emerson's father was a farmer and his mother took care of the children, cooked the meals, and cleaned the house, a never ending job. As soon as the children were old enough, they began to work on the farm, helping their father plant the vegetable gardens, feed the farm animals, and milk the cows, doing chores that were necessary, just like the other farm children in their community. The nine children had most, but not all, of the dreaded childhood diseases. Young Emerson took rheumatic fever which left him with an extremely enlarged heart. Of all the diseases that occur in childhood, rheumatic fever is by far the most dangerous, and the most frequently contracted because the disease begins with a strep throat, tonsillitis, or pharyngitis, always a streptococcus infection. In this stage it is infectious, but when it develops into rheumatic fever it is no longer contagious. Rheumatic fever can be insidious, sometimes difficult to recognize, and often masquerades as so mild as to be ignored, or worse, often hard to know when it has subsided because it can lie dormant and at that time do great damage to the heart, as in Emerson's case. The period of active infection may go on for months. During this active phase inflammation of the heart is at it's worse, even a mild version can still commit serious harm, thus anyone with rheumatic fever must be kept in bed. Up to two percent of all school children in the United States have this disease, a third of whom develop heart trouble. Rheumatic fever begins to develop when a child is recovering from a strep throat, a new fever appears, plus migratory arthritis (changing locations). Large joints are affected at first, then the smaller ones, ankles, knees,
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