reminiscing of the events that were local to your area. As you say the Brown boys may have lived there for a bit, well, as areas seek to recall the events specific to those areas such would be included if known.
I don't think there is a national amnesia regarding Brown, but in many sense the Civil War was regional, recalling those events may be as well.
Did you know that Missouri had the 3rd highest number of battles and skirmishes behind VA & TN? I was not aware of this myself, but the reporting of this war & time is often centered on the events of the East. It's just the nature of things.
May 10th marked the anniversary of the Camp Jackson affair (St. Louis) which involved then Captain Nathaniel Lyons capturing a group of Missouri Volunteer Militia who were drilling in a area now part of St. Louis University. 120+ people were killed as the prisoners were marched back to the Federal Arsenal near the river (not too far from the current Busch Brewery).
There was recently a re-enactment at one of the local parks & I caught a short one man performance at the Missouri Historical Society.
http://www.mcwm.org/history_camp_jackson.html