I have contacted the office at Beauvior in Biloxi, Mississippi and they have no information on the parents of James Brown who built the plantation,  The executive director did invite down to see how the have renovated all of the buildings using the original blue prints that James Brown used in the 1840's when he built the plantation.  I haven't been there for many years since I was a young girl.  Has anyone been down recently and seen the renovation????