Rev. Charleston Brown

Reverend Charleston Brown was born December 18, 1934, to Mr. Leonard and Mrs. Rosella Fortner Brown in Sucarnochee of Kemper County, Mississippi. In 1942, the family moved to Macon, Mississippi. He departed this life on Monday, October 19, 2015, at approximately 7:15 p.m., at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Columbus.Reverend Brown was the sixth child of ten children. He was preceded in death by his parents; one daughter, Joanne Macdonald; two sons, Isiah Brown and Charles Joe Brown; three brothers, Lonnie Brown, Ezra Brown, and German Brown; and one sister, Chaney Brown Jordan.Reverend Brown confessed faith in Christ at an early age and joined St. John Primitive Baptist Church in Porterville, Mississippi; he joined the Church of God in Christ in Macon, Mississippi, and later joined Mt. Olive Baptist Church of the Mashulaville Community. In 1964, he accepted his calling as a minister of the gospel, and preached in season and out of season. For ten years, he pastored Third Union Baptist Church in West Point, Mississippi. For the past forty years, he pastored Toliver Chapel Baptist Church of Brooksville, Mississippi, where he remained faithful until death. He was a man of God whose preaching and teaching changed the lives of many. As he prepared to meet his heavenly father, he continued to teach and preach the word of God.In July of 1948, he was united in holy matrimony to Annie Henley Brown, and to this union, seven children were born. In 1996, Annie preceded him in death after fifty years of marriage. On June 1, 1998, he entered into his second marriage to Mary Cunningham Brown.He leaves to cherish his memories: a loving, devoted wife, Mary Brown; two daughters, Mary Ann Gavin (Claude), of Memphis and Valiree Taylor, of Southaven, Mississippi; two stepdaughters, Martika and Lartika Cunningham, of Macon; two sons, Robert (Bertha) and Jerimiah (Donna) Brown of Macon; one stepson, LaQuintas Cunningham; one godson, Earl (Glenda) Dew of Macon, Mississippi; five sisters, Rosie (George) Hopkins, Hazel Shephard, and Susie Knight of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Aretha (Haywood) Mitchell of Macon, Mississippi, and Marnita Brown of DeKalb, Mississippi; one brother, L. C. (Lillie Catherine) Brown of Macon, Mississippi; sisters-in-law, Annie Ruth Brown, Annie Dale Brown, Katherine Cunningham, and Annie Pearl Rice, all of Macon, Hattie B. Cunningham and Lola Cunningham, both of Brooksville, and Nancy Cunningham of Artesia; brothers-in-law, Henry Cunningham and Levell Cunningham of Columbus; twenty-five grandchildren; fifty-one great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, relatives, and friends.