The Harry & Lula Browns formerly of Clarksdale, MS

The younger Brown members, Houston Sterling & Leora Curry made Rockford their home in the 1930s after leaving their native city of Clarkskdale, Mississippi. Houston Sterling came to Rockford in 1936 and started work with Gunite Division. He later married Ruth Easterling and they started a family. Leora Curry moved to Rockford shortly thereafter, married Bill (Pork Chop) Sherod and they started a family. In the late 1940s or early 1950s, my grandmother Annie & my great-aunt Clara joined Houston and Leora in Rockford. By that time, my great-grandfather Harry Brown was deceased so my great-grandmother Lula also moved to Rockford and joined her daughters Annie Brown and Clara Curry, her sons Frank, Sam, and Clarence Brown, her grandson Houston Sterling, granddaughter Leora (Curry) Sherod, & great-grandchildren who remember her as "Mama Lula".

I have completed genealogy research going back several generations to the year 1840 and found Sy Hall & Anna Parker, parents of Lula Brown. It has been an enlightening journey being able to observe the lives of my ancestors and get a picture of what life was like for them and how they came to be my great-great grands.

The descendants of Harry & Lula will be hosting the very first Brown Family Reunion to be held July 29, 2006 in Rockford, IL. We hope to bring together our "legends and young-uns" and be able to tell the story and celebrate the lives and "One-Generation-to-the-Next" of Harry & Lula Brown of Clarksdale, Mississippi.

I am so proud to be Houston Sterling's daughter.

My Family History

• Surname List


• Index of Individuals


• InterneTree

Family Tree Maker Reports and Trees

• InterneTree: All-in-One Tree of Sy Hall


• All-in-One Tree of Sy Hall (PDF Format)