Friday, February 4, 2022

James Steven “Steve” Brown

Name:	James Stephen Brown
Gender:	Male
Race:	White
Age:	18
Relationship to Draftee:	Self (Head)
Birth Date:	7 Jan 1927
Birth Place:	Martinsville, Texas, USA
Residence Place:	Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches, Texas, USA
Registration Date:	9 Jan 1945
Registration Place:	Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches, Texas, USA
Employer:	U.S. Maritime Service
Height:	6 2
Weight:	170
Complexion:	Light
Hair Color:	Blonde
Eye Color:	Blue
Next of Kin:	James M Brown

Fort Bend Herald, December 20, 2017:

James Steven ‘Steve’ Brown of Rosenberg, Texas, age 90, passed away on December 15, 2017 along with his wife of almost 36 years, Ella Brown. He was born January 27, 1927 in Martinsville, Texas and reared in Nacogdoches, Texas.

Steve served his country in World War II in the US Coast Guard with a special assignment to the Merchant Marines. An avid reader and a green thumb, Steve took pride in maintaining a beautiful yard.

Steve served a total of 18 years in law enforcement. He loved enforcing the law and served 14 of those years as Assistant Chief of Police in Richmond. He was commissioned by Governor Dolph Briscoe as a Certified Advanced Law Enforcement Officer by the State of Texas at Texas A&M University. He is certified in Kidnapping and Hostage Situations from the FBI, Jail Operations from the United States Department of Justice’s Bureau of Prisons, and in Criminal Investigation from Texas A&M University. He also attended the College of The Mainland in Texas City, and prior to coming to Richmond, he graduated from the Victoria Police Academy, served as sergeant of the Port Lavaca Police Department, and was a member of the Pasadena Mounted Police Posse.

Steve is a past member of the Richmond Fire Department, the Rosenberg Richmond Optimist Club and was a member of St. John’s United Church of Christ in Rosenberg.

He is preceded in death by his parents James McKnight Brown and Grace Crawford Brown, son Taylor Brown, sisters Helena McKewen Thrash and Kathryn Wheeler McNeal, brother Ralph Brown, and nephew Don Wheeler. He was also preceded in death by step-daughter Sharon Seiler Davis whom he loved as his very own.

Survivors include daughters Sally Kubecka and husband David of Houston, Melody Tylich of Houston and husband Jim, sister-in-law Marion Brown of Canyon Lake, and daughter-in-law Nancy Brown Trantham of Richardson. He is also survived by nieces and nephews Mildred Wheeler of Flower Mound, Bob and Linda Wheeler of Nederland, Johnny Brown of Canyon Lake, Wendy McKewen Floyd and husband Thad of Nacogdoches, and Weita Wheeler of Nederland. Grandchildren include Sterling Kubecka of Houston, Garland Kubecka of Pearland, and April Buckingham and husband Brian of Denton. Step-children are son-in-law Syd “Ren” Davis III of Richmond, and Charles E. Seiler and wife Patty Dornbach Seiler of Richmond. Step-grandchildren are Penny Davis Meek of Richmond, Julie Davis Gaston and husband Robert of Needville, Amy Davis Dybala and husband Chris of Rosenberg, Brent Seiler and Amber Gallagher of Rosenberg, Nathan Seiler and Jennifer Spivey of Richmond, Krissy Lacey and husband Chris of New Braunfels, and Elissa Norris and husband Josh of Cypress. Great-grandchildren include Alexa Ivory, Austin Buckingham, and Bailey Buckingham. Step-great grandchildren are Cody Meek, Morgan Meek, Carter Norris, and Brody Norris.

Visitation will be held from 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m., Thursday, December 21, 2017, in the chapel of Davis-Greenlawn Funeral Home in Rosenberg. The funeral service will be held at 10:00 a.m., Friday, December 22, 2017 in the chapel of Davis-Greenlawn Funeral Home in Rosenberg with interment following at Greenlawn Memorial Park in Rosenberg.

James Steven “Steve” Brown

BIRTH	7 Jan 1927 Martinsville, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA
DEATH	15 Dec 2017 (aged 90) Texas, USA
BURIAL	Davis-Greenlawn Cemetery Rosenberg, Fort Bend County, Texas, USA

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The Flag of the Kingdom of Spain 1519 to 1821

The Spanish Flag of Castile and Leon flew over Texas for three hundred years. Spanish involvement in Texas began with Alonzo Alverez de Pineda's mapping of the Texas coast in 1519. Then, in 1542 Luis de Moscoso came to Nacogdoches and East Texas with the remnants of the Hernando de Soto expedition that had begun four years earlier in Florida. Spain's claim to Texas went back to the DeSoto-Moscoso Expedition, which claimed all of southeastern United States as Spanish Florida. Spain's occupation of Texas began in 1690 with the founding of Mission San Francisco de los Tejas on the Neches River. It continued in 1716 with the founding of six missions from the Neches River to Los Adaes in Western Louisiana, and 1721 with the founding of Presidio Nuestra Señora de Pilar de los Adaes----near present day Robeline, Louisiana. Los Adaes was the first capital of the Province of Texas. Texas was under the Spanish flag until Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821. Interestingly, the first flag used by the Spanish to claim Texas was not the familiar flag of Castile and Leon; it was a banner that had the Virgin of Guadalupe on one side and the crucified Christ on the other.

The Flag of the Kingdom of France 1685 to 1689

France's claim to a part of Texas went back to 1682, when Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, explored the Mississippi and claimed all the land in its drainage for France. For some mapmakers and politicians, this included Texas. He named this land Louisiana. La Salle came to Texas in 1685, after he accidentally sailed past his destination at the mouth of the Mississippi. He established Fort St. Louis and a French settlement on Garcitas Creek off Matagorda Bay. The settlement was ill fated from its beginning. LaSalle was murdered by his own men near Navasota in 1687, and the settlers and soldiers who remained at Fort St. Louis were killed or captured by the Indians in 1689. The Spanish found Fort St. Louis and burned it to the ground in 1690. This French intrusion into Spanish territory caused the Spanish to begin the occupation and settlement of East Texas to prevent further French invasions.

The Flag of the Gutiérrez-Magee Expedition 1812 to 1813

Bernardo Gutiérrez and Lieutenant Augustus Magee flew their green flag of the new Republic of Texas over the Stone Fort in Nacogdoches in August of 1812. The Republican Army of the North, as these filibusters called themselves, had come from Natchitoches to Nacogdoches to recruit and train troops with the help of Samuel Davenport. They stayed for two months, drilled an army of over five hundred men, and then marched on to capture Goliad and San Antonio. Magee died at Goliad, and his place was taken by Samuel Kemper. Kemper and Gutiérrez captured San Antonio and issued a Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Texas on April 6, 1813. This brief time of Texas Independence was over when the Spanish general Joaquín de Arredondo destroyed the remains of the Republican army at the Battle of Medina on August 18, 1813. Augustus Magee and Samuel Davenport, who were in charge of the militia in Nacogdoches, were both Irishmen. That might have governed their choice of the Emerald Green flag as the Republican army's standard.

The Flag of the Dr. James Long Expedition 1819 and 1821

Some Americans believed that Texas was part of Louisiana as claimed by LaSalle in 1682 and should have been included in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. One of those was Dr. James Long of Natchez, Mississippi, who came to Nacogdoches in June of 1819. Dr. Long proclaimed himself the president of his newly declared Republic of Texas. Dr. Long's red-striped Lone Star flag flew but briefly over the Stone Fort and his Republic of Texas. The Spanish caught Long when he went to Galveston, where he was seeking the assistance of pirate Jean Lafitte. There they defeated him and his meager army and chased him back to Louisiana. Dr. Long returned to Texas with a small army in 1821 and quickly captured the poorly manned garrison at Goliad. However, he was soon under siege by Spanish troops from San Antonio, who recaptured Goliad and took him captive. Dr. James Long was taken to Mexico City, jailed, then freed, and then murdered under mysterious circumstances by a Mexican soldier.

The Flag of the Mexican Federal Republic 1821 to 1836

Spanish Nacogdoches came under the Mexican flag in 1821, when Mexico finally won its independence from Spain. Mexico, in order to prove its ownership of Texas, began settling its eastern parts with the Anglos as early as December 1821. In that year Stephen F. Austin was allowed to bring the first of his Old Three Hundred Settlers into his grant on the Brazos. Thereafter, Americans poured through Nacogdoches, the Gateway to Texas, in search of cheap land. By the time of the Texas revolution in 1836, Anglos greatly outnumbered the Spanish-Mexican population. The Mexican flag that flew over Nacogdoches and still flies over Mexico was adopted in 1825. It has three vertical green, white, and red fields of equal width. In the center of the white field is the Mexican eagle sitting on a nopal cactus holding a snake in its beak. In Mexican legend, this was a sign to the Aztecs that they had reached the land that was to be their home.

The Flag of the Fredonia Rebellion 1826 to 1827

For a brief while, the flag that flew over Nacogdoches was the red-and-white banner of Haden Edward's thirty-seven-day Fredonia Rebellion. Edwards had obtained a grant from Mexico to settle eight hundred families in East Texas in the Nacogdoches area. Unfortunately for him, most of the land had already been settled---legally and illegally---by the early Spanish, by Indians, and by Anglo squatters. His intrusion caused such a disturbance that the Mexican government revoked his grant. Disappointed over the loss of his grant, on December 16, 1826, Haden and his brother Benjamin rode into Nacogdoches, planted their flag in front of the Stone Fort, and proclaimed the Republic of Fredonia. They had formed an uncertain alliance with the Cherokees, thus the reason for the red and white colors of the flag. The flag carried the words "Independence Freedom and Justice" and the Signatures of sixteen of the original Fredonians. The Fredonian army consisted of no more than thirty men, the Cherokees never joined them, and Stephen F. Austin raised a militia to put down the East Texas rebellion. The Fredonians gave up their cause on January 22, 1827, and retreated eastward across the Sabine.

The Flag of the Republic of Texas 1836 to 1846

Mexican Texas became the Republic of Texas after Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna on the plains of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836. The first official flag was a white upside-down star on a blue background with T-E-X-A-S written between the points of the star. This flag never flew. The second flag of the Republic was adopted by the first Texas congress in December 1836. It bore a single, large gold star on a blue field. This flag was the same design as the "Bonnie blue flag that bears a single star" that was so popular among the Southern troops during the Civil War. The Lone Star flag that we now use was designed by Texas Senator William H. Wharton and was officially adopted by the Senate under President Mirabeau B. Lamar in 1839. The new flag kept the white star on the blue field, but now the blue field was a vertical stripe which occupied one-third of the flag, and it was balanced by horizontal white and red stripes, on the other two-thirds. This Texas flag has been prominently displayed for over 150 years.

The Flag of the Confederate States of America 1861 to 1865

For four years, the Stars and Bars flew over Nacogdoches and Texas. After years of conflicts of interest between the North and the South over states rights, slavery, and the right of secession, the Civil War began in March of 1861. Texas seceded and joined the Confederate States of America. It sent its Texas brigades into battle, and suffered for four years with the rest of the Confederacy before General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865. The most enduring of the Confederate flags during the War was the Stars and Bars with the square of blue holding a circle of the seven original seceding states. Texas was the seventh star. Because the Confederate Stars and Bars and the Union Stars and Stripes were easily confused in the heat of battle, General P. G. T. Beauregard introduced a Confederate battle flag. This was a square red flag with a white-bordered blue cross running diagonally from corners to corners. The cross contained thirteen stars representing the eleven Confederate states plus Kentucky and Missouri. This battle flag became the flag most closely identified with the Southern cause. The Confederate Stars and Bars came down in Texas after April 1863 and Appomattox, and the United States Stars and Stripes have been flying over this State ever since.

The Flag of the United States of America since 1846

On February 19, 1846, the Lone Star flag was lowered over the Texas state capitol in Austin, and the Stars and Stripes was raised. The Republic of Texas had become the State of Texas. From the beginning of the Republic in 1836, the majority of the Texians, most of whom had come directly from the States, had wanted Texas to join the Union. But many in the Union did not want Texas in the United States. Some did not want one more Southern slave-holding state, and some were afraid of causing a war with Mexico. Nevertheless, on July 4, 1845, the Texas congress voted to accept the articles of annexation offered by United States President James K. Polk, and on December 29, 1845, the congressional resolution proclaiming Texas as a state in the Union was signed by President Polk. The Old Glory that was raised above the Texas state capitol on the following February 19, 1846, had twenty-eight stars in four rows of seven stars each. Except for the four years of the Civil War, 1861 to 1865, these Stars and Stripes have since 1846 flown over the State of Texas.

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