Perry Thompson Brown was the eleventh child of twelve of John Martin and Nancy Caroline (Gipson) Brown (see John Martin Brown).  On his 18th birthday he received a teacher's certificate.  He said he was so happy that he jumped every barb wire all the way home from the mail box.  He taught his first school that fall at Calf Creek District in McCulloch County. 

     His younger brother, Charlie, died the following summer with typhoid fever.  He was so close to Charlie, real pals, that the loss caused him to enlist in the U.S. Navy for a period of four years.  He returned to Texas and attended East Texas Normal College.  At the end of his college year, World War l was in progress, so he re-enlisted in the Navy.  At the end of the war he was discharged as an officer.  He then returned to East Texas State Teachers College, 1920-22 and to Texas University in 1923, and taught school a few years.  After passing the Texas State Bar, he received his Law License, January 2, 1928.  At his death November 15, 1973, he had been a member of the Texas State Bar Association 45 years.

     On June 19, 1934, he married Frances Ruth Evins in Amarillo.  Their first home was at Farwell where Perry was County Attorney.  He and his brother, Edward, decided to form a law partnership in East Texas, but that was dissolved, and we returned to this region.  World War II broke out, and you guessed it!  He volunteered even though he was over draft age, married and had a small daughter, Emily.  He felt it was his patriotic duty since he was an Officer and our country needed trained men right then!  He went to a ten-week Officer's refresher school, then to the war zone in Europe.  After a period of time, he was sent to the Pacific to service ships at sea.  After the war, he decided to take some more education at Arkansas University.  We bought a home in a beautiful location with the Boston Mountain range in the background and the White River flowing through a small acreage. During that time, Cynthia, (named after my mother), and Caroline (Grandmother Brown's name), were born.  After Perry received his Master's Degree, we returned to Texas.

     Because he had interrupted his law practice, he decided to teach a few more years to qualify for teacher retirement, later.  I taught with him.  That finished, we moved to Eastland County to a home that we had purchased earlier.  Soon after, he was asked to run for the District Attorney Office.  He lived five years after he retired from that office.  It had been his desire for years to be laid to rest in the same cemetery, Glen Cove, as his beloved mother.  I, too, have reservations there.  [Note:  Mrs. Perry T. Brown passed away May 20, 1984, buried in Glen Cove].