Alice J. Planck
Genealogy
BROWN CHAPTER
Matthew Brown
& Mary Throckmorton
Matthew was born 1733
in Pennsylvania, and died in Pennsylvania.
Matthew and
Mary’s marital data are not known.
Mary was born about
1737.
Our first identification of Jackson Brown’s ancestry from his
father back three generations came from Carolyn Brown [Personal Communication,
June 2002] who identified for me a particular DAR record. That record not only provides his
ancestry, but the applicant turned out to be Jackson’s twin sister, and
her husband’s name was Newton Reed Warwick, thus providing us also with
the source of the given name of Jackson and Alice Brown’s son Warwick.
This DAR record [“The National Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution”, v. 86, p. 31] reads:
Mrs. Adelaide Brown Warwick, DAR ID Number: 85084, Born in Greenup, Ky.
Wife of Newton Reed Warwick.
Descendant
of Matthew Brown, as follows:
1.
Piersol Brown (1807-82), m. 1838, Margaret Thomas (1813-51).
2.
Robert Brown (1762-1837), m. Margaret Wilson.
3.
Matthew Brown, m. Mary Trockmorton.
Matthew
Brown (1733-1837) served as private in Captain Allen’s company, Chester
County, Pennsylvania militia. He was born in Chester County; died in Bucks
County, Pa.
Did Matthew really live to age 104? Seems unlikely, and I’’ll accept that part of
the record only after the original research that went into the Patriot Index is
examined.
This Pennsylvania Matthew was not the only man of that name seeing
service. The Ancestry.com list of
Revolutionary War Service Records shows:
BROWN, Matthew
Rank
- Induction: DRUMMER
Roll
Box: 109
Roll
Description: VA
and
BROWN, Matthew
Rank
- Induction: PRIVATE
Roll
Box: 128
Roll
Description: Continental Troops
The Continental Troops were raised and paid by the Continental
Congress, to be distinguished from the Militias raised by the separate colonies
such as Virginia. So are these two
records for the same man, or two men?
In either case, probably not Matthew from Pennsylvania. However, I’ve not seen the DAR
sources that identify the father of Robert as being Matthew, so this needs
further attention, as DAR application papers sometimes contain errors in
identification that are not spotted during the DAR verification process by their
own genealogists. The state of
Virginia in the first record above should be noted, for it’s claimed also
that Robert Brown was born in that state.
An online IGI record reads:
Mary THROCKMORTON, born abt. 1737 Berkeley, VA, married Matthew BROWN
but has no film
number or any kind of identification.
In Descendants of Job & Frances (Stout) Throckmorthon, the earliest mention of
Berkeley County is that of William, who married Sarah Gillette, and died in
that county in 1796. In the 1787
Virginia census for Berkeley Co., William Throckmorton was charged with tax on
his 4 horses, mares, colts & mules and 4 cattle. But his youngest child was born in New Jersey in 1779, so he
moved to Virginia between 1780 and 1787.
I suspect that the IGI record which placed Mary’s birth in
Berkeley is mistaken. It’s
not impossible, as Scotch-Irish, Welsh, and German pioneers begin to settle the
western portions of Virginia after 1732, but the chance that there would exist
a record of a birth in 1737/38 in that frontier area seems very slight.
The only known child of Matthew and Mary (Throckmorton) Brown was Robert.
i Robert son, b in 1762.
Robert Brown
& Margaret Wilson
Robert was born 1762
in Berkeley County, Virginia, and died 11 May 1837 in Edgar County, Illinois,
Greenup County, Kentucky.
Robert and
Margaret’s marital data are not known.
Margaret was the
daughter of Samuel Wilson.
Robert Brown’s birth 1762 in Berkeley County, Virginia is from
an IGI record, fiche #6142805, the source of which is not identified in the
online version of the IGI.
However, Berkeley County, now a part of West Virginia, was only formed
in 1772 from Frederick County, VIrginia.
The same fiche records the birth of their son John in Berkeley County
in 1793. At that time, Berkeley
included also all of what is now Jefferson County, West Virginia, and a great
part of what is now Morgan County, West Virginia. Wherever in particular the family was located, I’m assuming
that sons Samuel and Matthew were born (1790 and 1791) in Berkeley County,
also.
The successive years in which the various Virginia Counties in the genealogy of the present Berkeley County, West Virginia, were erected are:
1721 Spotsylvania
1734 Orange
1743 Frederick
1772 Berkeley
1801 Jefferson
removed
1820 Morgan
removed
1863 WEST
VIRGINIA
(There was an even earlier history, but I don’t know which of
the various original counties from which Spotsylvania was erected included this
particular spot of land.) Thus, if
they all had been born on the same farm, Robert was actually born 1762 in
Frederick County, and the three boys in the 1790s in Berkeley County, Virginia,
but that farm now might be located in either Berkeley, Jefferson or Morgan
counties, West Virginia.
All of the siblings in this family were found in a web page
transcription of a Scioto County, Ohio Bible of the Brown and Coriell families
[http://www.scioto.org/Scioto/Bible/brown-coriell.html]. This Bible was transcribed by Carolyn
Brown <carolyn@@ashcraftrealestate.com> on a page headed “Scioto
County Bible Records, Brown-Coriell family”:
The first page of the 1858 Bible lists the siblings in this Brown
family, although their parents are not named. The second page records Coriell births, the third the family
of William Brown, brother of Piersol, and the fourth page records marriages and
deaths of various individuals in both families, some through 1956. The first page reads:
Samuel Brown was born Jan. 24th
1790
Matthew
Brown Dec. 13th 1791
John
Brown Nov. 23th 1793
Joseph
Brown Mar. 9th 1796
Nancy
Brown Noel. May 28th 1798
Robert
Brown Oct. 7th 1800
William
Brown Nov. 15th 1802
Rebecca
B. P. Cable. Feb. 12th 1805
Piersol
Brown. Feb. 26th 1807
Charlton
Brown. Aug. 22th 1809
From the History of Scioto County, Ohio [cited by Carolyn Brown] we
learn that Robert moved about 1797 from Virginia to Montgomery County,
Kentucky, so that Joseph, too, may have been born in Berkley County. Robert
does appear on the 1797 and 1800 tax lists of Montgomery County.
The 1810 Montgomery County census probably also records
Robert’s family, but there are a few problems. First, there were two Robert Browns in the county that year,
with almost identical numbers and ages of sons and daughters which match almost
perfectly to the Bible:
1810 Montgomery Co. KY Census Brown-Coriell Bible
page
367
page 371 Robert Brown family
43201-11010 42201-11001
bef.
1765 m bef. 1765 m [Robert 1762]
aft.
1765 f bef. 1765 f [Margaret
1765]
1784-1794 m 1784-1794
m Samuel 1790 Jan
1784-1794 m 1784-1794
m Matthew 1791 Dec
1794-1800 m
John
1793 Nov
1794-1800 m 1794-1800
m Joseph 1796 Mar
1794-1800 f 1794-1800
f Nancy 1798 May
1794-1800 m 1794-1800
m Robert 1800 Oct
1800-1810 m 1800-1810
m William 1802 Nov
1800-1810 f 1800-1810
f Rebecca 1805 Feb
1800-1810 m 1800-1810
m Piersol 1807 Feb
1800-1810 m 1800-1810
m Charlton 1809 Aug
1800-1810 m 1800-1810
m
It seem incredible that two Robert Browns could have sons and
daughters so well matched in ages. As can be seen, the census entry on page 367
has slightly the better match of the two, in that the one on page 371 lacks an
entry that can be paired to son John. And even the first one puts him in the wrong age
category by a year. Unfortunately,
our best estimate for the birth of Margaret puts her precisely on the boundary
of the census ages, 1765 [Carolyn Brown, citing Alan Brown], and so
doesn’t help discriminate between the two census entries.
The second problem is that both entries have an additional son under
ten years of age who does not match the Bible list. Since Charlton was born in August of 1809, there was just
time for another child to be born before the commencement of the census on the
first Monday in August, 1810, or even earlier, say between William and
Rebecca. Was a son born who died
as an infant or child and so was not recorded much later (after 1858) by the
family? We don’t know.
The Scioto History goes on to say that Robert moved sometime after
1812 “to a farm opposite Sciotoville”. Thus all of the rest of the children must have been born in
Montgomery County. The new
location for the family, opposite Sciotoville, is in Greenup County, Kentucky,
in the very northeastern corner of the state. That places Robert’s new farm near Siloam in what must
be one of the flattest places in mountainous Kentucky, lying within a bend of
the Ohio River.
The History of Edgar County, Illinois [published by Wm. Le Baron, Jr.
& Co., Chicago, 1879] and transcribed online by Jane Fullington
[http://www.rootsweb.com/~iledgar/bios/h5.htm], says that Robert Brown came to
Fairfield Precinct, which included most of Embarrass Township, from Kentucky,
and died “more than forty years ago.” This places his death in Illinois sometime before 1839, when
he would have been 77 years of age. The online index for the Illinois 1840
census doesn’t show Robert, which would tend to confirm the history
statement. As will be reported
below, his sons Pierson and Charlton went to Illinois also, although much later
than did Robert.
However, to complement or contradict the above account, Carolyn Brown
reports that Robert died 1 May 1837 and is buried at Siloam Cemetery in Greenup
County. We don’t know if the
Illinois account is for some other Robert Brown, or whether it fails to mention
that Robert returned to Kentucky before he died, or if his body was returned after
his death. In any event, he still
owned property in Greenup County, as an inventory for his estate appears in the
Greenup County Will Book 3 filed 6 Nov 1837, administrator his son Charlton. Carolyn also lists the cattle, produce,
apple trees, household furnishings (including 3 beds) and farm equipment that
were valued at $900. Robert, Jr., John, Matthew, Charlton, Joseph and "Pearce"
Brown, as well as Daniel Noel and Isaac Price, participated in the sale on 25 Aug
1837.
Piersol was about five when the family moved, and this locale is
where he and his siblings grew to adulthood and eventually married and started
their own families.
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The ten children of Robert and Margaret (Wilson) Brown were Samuel
Wilson, Matthew, John, Joseph, Nancy, Robert, William, Rebecca, Piersol and Charlton.
i Samuel Wilson son, b 24
Jan 1790 in Berkeley County.
Samuel Wilson was married about 1820 to Catharine ____ {b 1793/1794 in
Kentucky}.
Carolyn Brown points out that Samuel was censused 1850 in Clark
County, Illinois adjacent to his brother John, citing an online transcription
by Rita Millis [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilclark/census/1850/205a.htm]. We use this source to identify the
children of Samuel and Catharine:
Brown
Samuel W. 61 M farmer 1200 Virginia
Brown
Catharine 56 F
Kentucky
Brown
Henry
27 M Farmer Kentucky
Brown
Robert 24 M Farmer Indiana
Brown
Edward 23 M Farmer Indiana
Brown
Samuel 22 M Farmer Indiana
Brown
Eleanor 18 F
Illinois
Brown
Rebecca 17 F
Illinois
Brown
Mary
15 F
Illinois
Brown
Judith 10 F Illinois
Carolyn also noted a message on the Gammon board of GenForum posted
26 Feb 1999 by Nardell Jukes: “The story is that Samuel Wilson
apprenticed both men [Robert Brown and Richard Gammon] and consented to the men
marrying his daughters if they would name the first born son after him. So
there is a Samuel Wilson Gammon and a Samuel Wilson Brown.”
From the above, Samuel and Catherine moved the family from Kentucky
to Indiana between 1822 and 1825, and then to Illinois between 1828 and 1831. Clark County, Illinois is just south of
Edgar County, and across the Indiana state line from Vigo and Sullivan
Counties, although I don’t know where the sons in the family were born in
Indiana. They should appear in the
1840 census in some Indiana county.
Carolyn Brown writes [24 Jun 2002] concerning the burial of Samuel and Catherine: "The cemetery is known by a progression of names: Old Gordon, Shiloh, or Thomas Lincoln Cemetery. The family of Thomas Lincoln, father of Abraham, is buried there so its considered a historic spot. Tombstone inscriptions: Samuel W. Brown, age 81, 4-30-1869 and Catherine Stivers Brown, wife of SW, age 81, 12-12-1881. Source: Cemeteries of Lafayette, Paradise & Pleasant Grove Townships, Coles County, Illinois, Volume I. Published by The Coles County, Illinois Genalogical Society, 1984, page 194."
The eight children of Samuel Wilson and Catharine (____) Brown:
1 Henry son,
b 1821/1822 in Kentucky.
2 Robert son,
b 1825/1826 in Indiana.
3 Edward son,
b 1826/1827 in Indiana.
4 Samuel son,
b 1827/1828 in Indiana.
5 Eleanor dtr.,
b 1831/1832 in Illinois.
6 Rebecca son,
b 1832/1833 in Illinois.
7 Mary dtr.,
b 1834/1835 in Illinois.
8 Judith dtr., b
1839/1840 in Illinois.
ii Matthew son,
b 13 Dec 1791 in Berkeley County, d 11 Jul 1878 and was buried in Siloam Cemetery,
South Shore, Greenup, Kentucky.
Matthew was living in one of the two Shoemaker homes censused between
Joseph and Piersol in 1850. He was
listed as a “Gentleman”, aged 58, born in Virginia. Presumably that term was the equivalent
of “retired”, rather than indicating he was a member of the landed
gentry. Carolyn Brown reports that
her father was aware that the Shoemakers were related in some way to the Brown
family.
In 1860 Matthew was an “Inmate”, i.e., roomer, in William
Brown’s home, born in Virginia.
Carolyn Brown reports that he is still listed as living with William in
the 1870 census where he reported his birth place as West Virginia. The latter state was created in 1863
when it’s counties chose not to secede from the Union along with the rest
of Virginia.
iii John son,
b 23 Nov 1793 in Berkeley County.
John was married 11 Feb 1830 in Montgomery Co., Kentucky to Judith Ball
Jameson {b 24 Sep 1808 in Mount Sterling, Montgomery, Virginia}.
As mentioned above, an unidentified IGI record gives the birth of
John in Berkeley County, Virginia in 1793.
Carolyn Brown points out that John was censused 1850 in Clark County,
Illinois adjacent to his brother Samuel, citing an online transcription by Rita
Millis
[http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilclark/census/1850/205a.htm]. We use this source to identify the
children of John and Judith, noting that William in this census, however, is
not a son of the family:
Brown John 56 M Farmer 1,500 Virginia
Brown
Judith 41 F
Kentucky
Brown
William 33 M Farmer Kentucky
Brown
Sarah 17 F
Kentucky
Brown
Ann 15
F
Kentucky
Brown
Mary 13 F
Kentucky
Brown
Francis 11 M
Kentucky
Brown
Margaret 9 F Illinois
Brown
John 7
M
Illinois
Brown
Caroline 5 F
Illinois
Brown
Permelia 3 F
Illinois
Brown
Judith 11/12 F
Illinois
Carolyn Brown also records that Ann Brown moved to Illinois when she
was four years old, thus the family went about 1839.
Judith’s birth data and parents’ names are froman online
IGI record without any identification.
Both of Judith’s marriages were performed by “the Rev.
John Smith (well known as Elder Raccoon Josh Smith) in Montgomery County from
November 1817 to September 1851, who first came to preach at the Baptist
Churches of Spencer Creek, Old Bethel and Grassy Lick, but later embraced the
views of Alexander Campbell and preached at Mt. Sterling, Spencer and Somerset
Christian Churches.” This
quotation is from Some Marriages in Montgomery County, Kentucky before 1864 by Hazel Mason Boyd [Kentucky
Society DAR, March 1961], from which copies of the records were made by Tom and
Glenna Mullen and sent to Carolyn Brown 21 Jun 2002.
The nine children of John and Judith Ball (Jameson) Brown:
1 Sarah dtr.,
b 1832/1833 in Kentucky.
2 Ann dtr.,
b 4 Jan 1835 in Kentucky and d 12 Jan 1915 in Coles County, Illinois.
3 Mary dtr.,
b 1836/1837 in Kentucky.
4 Francis son,
b 1838/1839 in Kentucky.
5 Margaret dtr., b
1840/1841 in Illinois.
6 John son,
b 1842/1843 in Illinois. There was
a John S. Brown born 1806/07 in Floyd County, KY (about 75 miles south of
Greenup). He was censused in Embarrass
Township with his wife Bethena in 1850 (Methena in 1860), and all of their
children starting with Julia in 1836 were born in Edgar County. I don’t know at this time whether
this record could be for John, Jr.
7 Caroline dtr.,
b 1844/1845 in Illinois.
8 Permelia dtr.,
b 1846/1847 in Illinois.
9 Judith dtr.,
b 1849 in Illinois.
iv Joseph son,
b 9 Mar 1796 in Berkeley County and d before 4 Mar 1853 in Greenup County,
Kentucky. Joseph m Martha Gammon
{b 1800/1801 in Kentucky}.
Joseph and Martha were censused in 1850 three households before
Piersol. Note that they named one child
after Joseph’s father, and four for his brothers and sisters.
Those shown below are not all of Joseph and Martha's children, however. Either four or five of those living in 1850 were born before 1840, but the 1840 census shows four boys and three girls in the family. If the marriage date below is correct, there could have been older children who had left home by 1850.
Carolyn Brown wrote: "An inventory of the Joseph Brown estate was filed in Greenup County Will Book 4, page 324; dated Mar. 4 1853; filed Mar. 7 1853; Adm¹r., John Shoemaker. Š among purchasers [of items of his estate] were Charlton Brown, Isaac Shoemaker, Robert Brown, John Shoemaker, James Walker, Robert Walker, William Walker, Samuel Berry, Matthew Brown."
A search for "Gammon" on the Genforum Brown page returned an anonymous message from which I take the marriage date:
"Šlooking for any info on Joseph Brown, found in the 1850 Greenup Co. KY census at the age of 54. He married Martha Gammon (born 1801) on 3/12/1822. Known Children are: Robert, William, Rebecca, Charlton, Samuel, and Henry" [http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?Gammon::brown::35 94.html].
The six children of Joseph and Martha (Gammon) Brown:
1 Robert son,
b 1828/1829 in Kentucky.
2 William son,
b 1832/1833 in Kentucky.
3 Rebecca dtr.,
b 1836/1837 in Kentucky.
4 Charlton son, b
1837/1838 in Kentucky. On 3 Mar
1868 a Charlton Brown married Rhoda Gillis in Edgar County, Illinois. I would guess that this is a record for
this Charlton, who was 30 years old at the time.
5 Samuel son,
b 1839/1840 in Kentucky.
6 Henry son,
b 1843/1844 in Kentucky.
v Nancy dtr.,
b 28 May 1798 in Montgomery, Kentucky, d 11 Dec 1893 and was buried in
Greenlawn Cem., Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio. Nancy was married 4 Dec 1823 in Greenup County to Daniel
Noel {b 1 Jan 1790 in Hampshire County, Virginia, d 13 Mar 1852 in Clay Township,
Scioto, Ohio, and was buried in Greenlawn Cem.}.
There is an ancestral tree published online by Anne Wollmann-Storey
Peter Noel, b 1756, d 1841
m
Sophia Good, b 2 Feb 1756, Paradise Twp., PA, d 5 Feb 1825, Sciota Co., OH
Daniel Noel b 1 Jan 1790
Hampshire County, VA/WV, d 13 mar 1852 Clay Twp., Scioto Co., OH
m 4 Dec 1823 Greenup Co.
Nancy Brown, b Greenup
Rebecca Ann
Noel b 5 May 1827, d Jul 1864
There were several Noels who were called out in the spring of 1812
from Scioto County to serve in the war.
Captain David Roops company included Daniel Noel, Fourth Sergeant, and
privates John Noel, Sr., Peter Noel, Nicholas Noel, Philip Noel. John Noel was the company Fifer
[History Of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio by Kay L. Mason,
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/oh/history/1884/1884h/ch10.htm ].
Also on that web page: “In 1813 a regiment was called out for
short service, some sixty days, but did not remain in the field that long. It
was commanded by Colonel Peter Noel.” This could well be Daniel’s father.
It's also of interest that Charles Noel published a second genealogy entitled "The Holmes tree: history and geneaology [sic] of a Holmes family and allied families, including Bradford, Calhoun, Clay, Parkinson, Pugh, Rainwater, Storm, and Throckmorton" [Apollo, PA, Closson Press, 1983]. Nancy Throckmorton was Nancy Brown's paternal grandmother. I have not seen either of Noel's books myself.
Nancy's census records for 1860 and 1870 were found by Carolyn Brown [24 Jun 2002]. Her real estate value increased from $3,700 in Clay Township to $10,000 in Portsmouth over that decade. Living with her in 1860 was a Rebecca Noel, 30, and a niece Matilda Myers was with her both times.
The only child of Daniel and Nancy (Brown) Noel:
1 Rebecca Ann [Brown] dtr., b 5
May 1827 and d Jul 1864.
vi Robert son,
b 7 Oct 1800 in Montgomery and d before 19 Mar 1841 in Greenup Co.,
Kentucky. Carolyn Brown reports
that an inventory of Robert’s estate was filed in Greenup County Will
Book 3, page 334, dated 19 Mar 1841, administrator William Brown. Among the purchasers of various items
(including 1 crock of lard, 180 lb. bacon, 134 lb. pork and a dozen turkeys)
were Matthew, Piersol and Joseph Brown.
No mention has been seen that Robert married, but there were six
Robert Browns who married in Kentucky between 1818 and 1825.
vii William son,
b 15 Nov 1802 in Montgomery and d 17 Jan 1874. William was married 13 Sep 1840 to Frances Coriell {b 10 Sep
1816 in New York, and d 7 Mar 1889}. William is buried at Shiloh Cemetery.
The Brown-Coriell Bible lists the children of this family, and their
spouses. William and Frances were censused 1860 in Greenup County, where his
birth place is recorded as Kentucky, and hers as New York. This birth record indicates the family
had moved from Virginia by 1802. William’s older brother Matthew was
living with him in 1860.
Carolyn Brown [24 Jun 2002] found William censused in Scioto County in 1840 within a few households of Jonathan Cable, William Brown, Rebecca Price, Madison Price and Joseph Shumaker.
The 1840 census for William Brown in Greenup/Green County (the index
doesn’t distinguish) is for an older man. Possibly all of these Browns censused in Greenup County were
cousins, but according to Teresa Clarkson [Personal Communication, June 2002],
who is researching them, there were many unrelated Browns in the county. The six children of William and Frances (Coriell) Brown: 1 John T. son,
b 19 Jul 1841. 2 Ellen Frances dtr.,
b 10 Jan 1843 and d 11 Jun 1882.
The Brown-Coriell Bible says that Ellen died aged 39 years 5 months 1
day. 3 Thomas Jefferson son, b 23
May 1844. 4 Sylvania dtr.,
b 3 Sep 1846. 5 Rebeca Jane dtr.,
b 23 Nov 1848 and d 23 Apr 1887.
Rebeca died aged 38 years 5
months. 6 James Knox Polk son,
b 22 Oct 1850. viii Rebecca dtr.,
b 12 Feb 1805 in Montgomery, d 18 Dec 1893 and was buried in Wheelersburg Cem,
Scioto County, Ohio. Rebecca was
married 13 Jun 1826 in Greenup County to Isaac Price (1) { d before 1850}. She was married 17 Dec 1850 in Scioto
County, Ohio to Jonathan Cable (2).
The Brown-Coriell Bible reads: “Rebecca B. P. Cable. Feb. 12th
1805”. Carolyn Brown found two marriage records for Rebecca. Between her two
marriages, there are two census records for her as a widown. In 1840 she appears
in Scioto County with one male aged 10-15; the 1850 Ohio census shows Rebecca
Price, age 44, real estate
valued at $2,000, born in Kentucky.
Living with her is Vinton Price age 21. They are living next door to
Madison Price in Sciotoville, Ohio.
One would expect that Vinton is her son, but his has not been
established. Carolyn adds: “Rebecca Cable is found in the 1880 Ohio census living in
Portsmouth. She is a 75 year old
widow. She says she was born in
Kentucky, her father was born in Pennsylvania and her mother in Virginia. “In the Wheelersburg Cemetery, Scioto County, the gravestone is
found for Rebecca Price Cable, died December 18, 1893, age 88y 10m 6d, the
exact age of the Rebecca in the Bible.” The only child of Isaac and Rebecca (Brwon) Brice: 1 Vincent son,
b 1828/29. ix Piersol son,
b 26 Feb 1807. x Charlton son,
b 22 Aug 1809 in Montgomery.
Charlton was married 15 Nov 1840 in Rush Township, Scioto, Ohio to Rhoda
Bonser {b 1823 in Scioto County}. Chancery papers and other material supplied by Lori L. (Bonser) Bluemel [Personal
Communications, Jun 2002] provide the following descent: Isaac Bonser, Sr. d 2 Sep 1849 m
Abigail Burt Isaac Bonser, Jr. d bef 19
July 1851 m Mehitable Burt
Rhoda Brown, wife of Charlton Brown of Kentucky
Abigail Bonser
Melissa Bonser
Temperance Bonser
Uriah Bonser Jefferson Bonser
Josiah Bonser A Scioto County marriag is recorded for Rhoda and
Charlton[http://www.scioto.org/-Scioto/Marriage/1800-1900/Bo.html] : Bonser, Rhody & Brown,
Charlton Nov 15, 1840 The IGI albeit from patron submissions, notorious for lack of detail,
source identification and, on occasion, accuracy) gives the parents of these
children [except Abigail is missing] as Isaac Bonser and Mehitable Burt, and
their birth years as recorded below. I’ll point out here that Rhoda, born 1823, would be 27 years
old in 1850, 37 in 1860, and 47 in 1870 - numbers which will be of interest
below. Before proceeding, it’s worth noting that Carolyn Brown
identifies Isaac’s sister Sarah married Joseph Shoemaker, in one of many
connections between the Brown and Shoemaker clans over the years and across the
country. I’m adopting the ages of Charlton and Rhoda’s first five
children as given in the 1850 Greenup County, Kentucky census. There, listed next after
“Piercol”, was Charlton Brown, 40, farmer, property value $2600,
born in Kentucky, Roney 32 born in Ohio, Julian (f) 9, Geo. W. 7, Perlina 5,
Nancy M. 2, all born in Kentucky, and B. F. (f) [sic] aged 1 year, born in
Ohio. This entire census record
was very clearly written, and I’ll accept Roney as a nickname for Rhoda,
and suggest that the census taker meant to write 37, rather than 32, for her
age, in agreement with the above 1832 birth year above. Also in the Brown household in 1850 were Squire and Mary Osborn, 25
and 18 years of age, and Temperance Bonser, 18. Temperance, listed above, was the daughter of Isaac and
Mehitable (Burt) Bonser, and the probability is high that she is Rhoda’s
sister, although teen-aged cousins, as well as sisters, could have lived and
worked in a relative’s home.
For now, I accept her as a sister, but point out that this
identification of Charlton’s inlaws is based on circumstantial evidence,
only. There is a record in Greenup County of the birth of Urena Brown on 16
Dec 1852 to Charlton and Rhoda, except that the transcriber messed up and
listed Rhoda’s name on the previous line [Kentucky Vital Records, Ser.
2, v. 45,
Frances T. Ingmire, Ingmire Publications, St. Louis, Mo., 1984]. In 1860, Charlton aged 50 was censused in Embarrass Township, Edgar
County, Illinois with wife Rhoda, 37, born in Ohio. Julia A., George W., Perlina, Nancy and Benjamin were all
still at home; there ages vary by ±1 year from the previous census.
Urana, female, is shown as seven years old and born in Kentucky; Alice, 3, was
born in Illinois. Thus Charlton
and Rhoda moved to Illinois between 1853 and 1857. Note that this year Rhoda’s age was correct. Charlton was last censused 1870 in Edgar County, aged 60, with Rosa,
aged 59. Is this yet another
spelling of the somehow difficult name Rhoda, with an age that is 22 years too
old? Or a second wife for
Charlton? Charlton and “Persol” appear as farmers in the Embarrass
Township tax roll of 1878, as mentioned above. On 3 Mar 1868 a Charlton Brown married Rhoda Gillis in Edgar County,
Illinois. As mentioned earlier, I
would imagine this was the son of Joseph who would have been 30 years old at
the time. But, until this
Rhoda’s age is determined, there remains the possibility that she was
censused as Rosa. Yet another Charlton Brown was born 22 Jun 1878 and died Jun 1965,
with his SSN issued in Kentucky and his death there, also. A third generation Charlton from that
part of the family that did not go to Illinois. The five children of Charlton and Rhoda (Bonser) Brown: 1 Julia A. dtr.,
b 1841 in Greenup County. Julia is
the name listed on the web page cited above, but she appears as Julian, female
aged 9, in the 1850 census. 2 George W. son,
b 1842/1843 in Greenup County. 3 Perlina dtr.,
b 1844/1845 in Greenup County. 4 Nancy Melvina dtr., b
1847/1848 in Greenup County. 5 Benjamin son,
b 1849/1850 in Greenup County.
Benjamin’s middle initial in the 1850 census is probably
“F”. Piersol Brown
& Margaret Thomas Piersol was born 26
Feb 1807 in Montgomery, Kentucky, and died in 1882. Piersol and
Margaret’s marital data are not known. Margaret was born
1813 in Ohio, and died in 1851. It was known from Kansas censuses that the Rev. Jackson Brown had
been born in Kentucky in April of 1846.
Piersol was found to be the father of Jackson only after the
latter’s obituary was found in the 1930 Official Record of the Annual
Session of the Kansas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. That obituary named Greenup County as
Jackson’s birth place, and that reduced the number of 1850 census records
that had to be searched from about 1500 Kentucky Browns to only 19 from Greenup
County. That very quickly led to
Piersol and Margaret with a son Jackson four years of age. And showed a daughter Adelaide also
four, so a twin, as well as an older brother Marion. Then, the rare given name Piersol (spelled Piercol in the 1850
census) led directly to finding online the Brown-Coriell Bible, op. cit., naming all of Pierson’s siblings,
and also enabled him to be located in Illinois in the 1860 and 1870 censuses
and on a tax list. When
you’re born with a common surname like Brown, it really helps
genealogists of the future for you to be blessed with an uncommon given name! Our records of Pierson in addition to the Brown-Coriell Bible are
several. In 1840 he was censused in Greenup County with a wife, both of them
aged 30 to 40) and no children.
Then, in 1850, the Greenup census record listed Piersol between his
brothers Matthew and Charlton. He
was described as a Farmer, and owned land worth $3000. His age was given as 42,
Margaret’s as 36, their son Marion’s as 8, and the twins as 4. The third record we have is the 1860 Census in Embarrass Township,
Edgar County, Illinois, where “Pearson” Brown is listed as age
53. Margaret had died by this
time, probably in Kentucky, but Marion, 18, was still living with his father, and listed as a farm
laborer. Why the twins, 14 at the time, weren’t censused with Piersol is
a mystery. Also living in Pierson’s household that year were a young
couple William and Charlotte Nye, with a one year old son John W. William was listed as a farm laborer,
but whether this family was also related to Pierson is unknown. The final census record I’ve examined for Piersol is when, at
the age of 63, he is listed living alone next to Marion in Edgar County in
1870. At that time he owned land
worth $2200, and personal property worth $640. Finally, “Persol” and Charlton appear as farmers in the
Embarrass Township undated tax rolls ca 1878 which were transcribed from the History
of Edgar County,
1879 [ftp://ftp.rootsweb-.com/pub/usgenweb/il/edgar/tax/embarrass1878.txt] . I haven’t yet checked the 1880 census for Piersol and Marion. Edgar County is on the eastern border of Illinois, just across the
state line from Terre Haute, Indiana, and its county seat is the town of Paris.
Embarrass Township is in the west-central part of the county, where the towns
of Borton and Redmon are now located.
Jackson Brown having come to Illinois as part of his father’s
family exactly parallels the life of William Underwood who came from New York. Both became interested in the
Methodist Episcopal Church there, and both were sent to be ministers in
Kansas. William married
Juliette Planck in Illinois; Jackson and Alice Planck were married eight years
later in Kansas with William officiating. The death years for both Piersol and Margaret, as well as her birth
year, are from their daughter Adelaide’s application for DAR membership. The three children of Piersol and Margaret (Thomas) Brown were
Marion, Adelaide and Jackson. i Marion son,
b 1841/1842 in Greenup County, Kentucky.
Marion was married 16 Dec 1866 in Edgar County, Illinois to Margaret
Jane Bandy {b 10 Feb 1843 in Illinois, or Indiana, and d 12 Oct 1902 in
Carthage, Jasper City, Missouri}. The most detailed source on the Bandy genealogy is Descendants of
Edmundi Bandy (b abt 1575) by Jane Bandy Eubank & Samuel Burton Eubank
[http://www.bandy.co.uk/-bjeubank/pfBjeEubank.htm], from which all of Margaret
Jane’s information given here has been taken. Another ancestry, which does not list the children in the
family, is The Bandy Family In Early America by Dale Bandy
[http://www.bandy.co.uk/-DaleBandyBook/Book/pc The birth data for the children are taken from the IGI. Notice that Marion and Margaret’s youngest children, Walter
Piersol and Jackson Shelby, are named after Marion’s father and uncle. Margaret’s older siblings were born in Edgar County, Illinois;
her younger ones in VIgo County, Indiana, just across the state line. Her own place of birth is recorded
variously. The seven children of Marion and Margaret Jane (Bandy) Brown: 1 George Washington son, b 1867 in
Illinois. 2 Charles Francis son,
b 1869 in Illinois. 3 Charity Ann dtr.,
b Feb 1870 in Illinois. 4 Sarah Margaret dtr.,
b 14 Jun 1872 in Brocton, Edgar, Illinois. 5 William Smith son,
b Feb 1875 in Illinois. 6 Walter Piersol son,
b Feb 1875 in Illinois. 7 Jackson Shelby son,
b 1877 in Illinois. ii Adelaide dtr.,
b Apr 1846 in Greenup County.
Adelaide m Newton Reed Warwick.
Adelaide appears as “Adaluda” in the 1850 census of her
father. She became a member of the DAR as
shown in The
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 86, page
31: Mrs.
Adelaide Brown Warwick, DAR ID Number: 85084. Born
in Greenup, Ky., wife of Newton Reed Warwick. Descendant
of Matthew Brown, as follows: 1.
Piersol Brown (1807-82), m. 1838, Margaret Thomas (1813-51). 2.
Robert Brown (1762-1837), m. Margaret Wilson. 3.
Matthew Brown, m. Mary Trockmorton. Matthew
Brown (1733-1837) served as private in Captain Allen’s company, Chester
County, Pennsylvania militia. He was born in Chester County; died in Bucks
County, Pa. iii Jackson son,
b Apr 1846. Jackson Brown
& Alice J. Planck Jackson was born Apr
1846 in Greenup County, Kentucky.
He died 15 Mar 1929 in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, and was buried 18 Mar in
Topeka Cemetery, Topeka, Kansas. Jackson and Alice J.
married Mar 1877 in Clay County, Kansas.
Alice J. was born 12
Oct 1856 in Lewis, New York, the daughter of Josiah and Catherine Ann (Horning)
Planck. She died 22 Sep 1935 in Topeka and was
buried 26 Sep 1935 in Topeka Cemetery, (Memorial Park), Topeka, Kansas. The earliest non-church record we have of Jackson in Kansas is his
marriage in March of 1877 in Clay Center [IGI, probably citing “Clay
County, Kansas marriage licenses issued for the months of January thru
September from 1866 to 1900”, Topeka Genealogical Society]. From the General Commission on Archives
and History of the United Methodist Church, however, we have a complete history
of Jackson’s Kansas ministries in the Methodist Episcopal Church: 1877 - Timber Creek 1892/93
- Morganville 1878 - Abilene 1894
- Lyndon 1879 - Meriden 1895
- Morrill 1880 - St. Mary’s 1896
- Oneida 1881 - St. George 1897/99
- Leonardsville 1882 - Louisville 1900/01
- Greenleaf 1883/84 - Garrison 1902
- Hope 1885/87 - Beattie 1903
- Onaga 1888/90 - Parkerville 1904
- St. Mary’s 1891 - Morganville and Idena 1905
- Keats This is an excellent view of the practice of the Methodists of moving
ministers every one to three years.
That resulted in Jackson and Alice living in twenty communities in
twenty eight years. In 1907
Jackson retired, and they moved to Topeka. In 1880 Jackson was censused in Belvue, Pottawatomie County, just
down the road from St. Mary’s (and not listed in the above
reference). This record states
that his father was born in Virginia (incorrect) and his mother in Ohio, while
Alice and her parents were all born in New York. In that year, he and Alice had living with them three young
McKelvey children, Henrietta, 9, Jennetta, 9 (presumably twins) and Ross,
4. These children were born in
Indiana, and their parents had both been born in Ohio. In 1882 their daughter Ada was born in Louisville, Pottawatomie
County [Ada's burial record], and Cutler’s History of Kansas [1883] reports that he was
minister in the M. E. Church there. Next, we find from his biography that Warwick Thomas was born 1890 in
Parkerville, Morris County, Kansas.
This is a very small town some fifty miles south of Clay Center, and
about five miles northwest of Council Grove. In 1880 the Methodist had built a stone church in the town. Ten years after that, in 1900, Jackson and Alice were censused in
Greenleaf, Washington, Kansas, northwest of Pottawatomie, with all four of
their children, ranging in age from four to 20 years of age. Yet another ten years later, we find Jackson and Alice censused in
Topeka, with Warwick, now 20, and Jackson, Jr., age 13. That census noted that Alice had borne
four children, three still living (Ada had died in 1907). Thus the eight and six year spans
between the births of the three youngest children evidently didn’t mark
the births of other children who died young. That year Jackson listed his
profession as salesman, evidently supplementing his retirement income from the
church. By 1920 Jackson described himself as a retired clergyman (Jackson,
Jr., 23, was living at home, but would be married the next year), but in the
1925 state census he described himself as a minister of the M. E. Church,
living at 506 Western Street in Topeka. The last record we have of Jackson is his burial record of 1929,
which indicates that he was still residing at 506 Western at the time of his
death, and contains notes that “Dr. W. T. Brown” and “Jackson
Brown, Jr.” were both living in Denver. Jackson died of “Cardiac
Insufficiency”, and was buried at Topeka Cemetery next to the grave of
his daughter Ada Young. The five lots of the family plot had been purchased by
Ada’s husband, William H. Young. The following map of northeastern Kansas records the locations of the
ministries of Jackson and of Alice’s brother-in-law William Underwood. Alice therefore spent her married life as a minister’s wife in
various small Kansas towns in Pottawatomie and Washington counties where her
four children were born, and finally in Topeka where she lived for at least 20
years. It must have been during
that time that her Bible was given to the Swans, possibly bequeathed to someone
in our family at her death. Just three weeks before her 80th birthday, Alice died of myocarditis
at the Methodist Episcopal Home for the Aged where she had been living since
Jackson’s death in 1929. [Topeka Cemetery burial records; 1930 census]. See the Planck Chapter for Alice's ancestry. The four children of Jackson and Alice J. (Planck) Brown were Clinton
M., Ada Alice,
Warwick Thomas and Jackson. i Clinton M. son,
b Sep 1880. We have found nothing
concerning Clinton except his presence at age 20 in the census of his
father’s household. That he was indeed a son is attested by the census
notation that Alice had borne four children. ii Ada Alice dtr.,
b 21 Sep 1882 in Louisville, Pottawatomie, Kansas, d 2 Sep 1907 in Topeka and
was buried 3 Sep in Topeka Cemetery, Topeka. Ada Alice m William H. Young {b 14 Jan 1876 in Illinois, and
d 24 Feb 1961 in Kansas City, KS?MO}.
Warren E. Taylor, Special Collections Dept. of the Topeka Library, found this obituary in response to a query of mine:
"Mrs. Ada Alice Young, 24 years of age, died at the home of her father, Rev. Jackson Brown, 506 Western avenue, Monday afternoon and the funeral was held this afternoon at 2:30" [Topeka State Journal for 3 Sept. 1907].
iii Warwick Thomas son, b Mar
1890 in Kansas, and d 16 May 1960 in Washington D. C. Warwick Thomas was married after 1910 to Mildred M.
____. The National Genealogical Society in Arlington, Virginia, maintains a
file on deceased physicians in America.
They have kindly provided Warwick’s record of his service as a
physician, and a copy of his biography from some un-named source: “Brown, Warwick Thomas, Vice Admiral, M.C., U. S. Navy,
retired, Washington, D. C.; born in Parkerville, Kan., in 1890; Kansas Medical
College, Medical Department of Washburn College, Topeka, 1913; specialist
certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine; joined the Navy in 1917
and served during World War I as assistant surgeon of the Fourth Marine Brigade
in France; during World War II was commanding officer of the First Medical
Battalion and surgeon of the FIrst Marine Division on Guadalcanal; later
commanded the Naval hospitals at Quantico, Va., and at St. Albans, N. Y.;
assigned to the Fifth Naval District in Norfolk when he retired to accept the
position as administrator at Emergency Hospital; retired from the U. S. Navy on
April 1, 1952; in 1956 appointed first administrator of the Washington Hospital
Center; among his military decorations were the Legion of Merit, Gold Star, and
Bronze Star; died May 16 [1960], aged 70, of coronary occlusion.” Quite a career for a boy born to a Methodist preacher’s family
in a small town in Kansas! The accompanying card reproduction from the NGS shows the history of
his medical career in Williamsburg, KS, 1913; Las Animas, CO, 1920; Washinton,
D.C., 1921; Ganacao, P. I. (sp?) 1922; Spokane, WA, 1922, Washington, D.C.
1926; Denver, CO 1928; Managua,
Nicaragua, 1931; Mare Island, CA, 19??; Quantico, VA 1938; Washington, D.C.;
Quantico, VA 1948, St. Albans, N. Y. 1929; and Washington, D.C. 1952. From the 1920 Kansas Census, we know his practice was at the Fort
Lyon Naval Sanitorium, just east of Las Animas in Bent County, Colorado, and
that he was not married at that time. The Denver city directories chronicle his time in that city, where he
and Mildred first appear in 1928, living at 2360 Birch St. These directories are the only source
we have of Mildred’s name.
Warwick was again listed, as a Physician, at that same address in 1929,
and in 1930 at 2338 Glenco. In
1931, where we know from the NGS file that he was in Nicaragua, Mildred is
listed alone at 503 Delaware and working as a shelf reader at the Denver Public
Library. In 1932 and 33 she was at
1900 Lincoln, and working as a waitress at St. Lukes Hospital. Since that was
the last mention of either of them in the city directories, their move to Mare
Island (at an indecipherable date on the NGS record) probably took place about
1934. Warwick’s presence on Guadalcanal is documented in this picture
of the staff of the commanding general, where Warwick appears at the bottom
right corner of the photograph. Warwick’s naval service in a way carried on his father’s
ministry example of moving around every couple of years: New Orleans, LA Quantico, VA France Fort Lyon, CO Olongapo,
Philippine Islands Shanghai, China - Yangtze Service Medal Canacao, Philippine
Islands Spokane, WA USS Chaumont, a troop carrier Fitzsimons General, Denver,
CO Nicaragua, including an earthquake 1931 - Presidential (Nic.) Medal of Merit
Great Lakes, IL Marke Island, CA USS Memphis, a cruiser Quantico, VA
Quadalcanal invasion - Legion of Merit Washington, D. C. Marianas Islands,
Pacific - Bronze star Peleliu, Iwo Jima Okinawa - Gold star in lieu of second
Legion of Merit Quantico, VA St. Albans, NY Norfolk, VA Washington, D. C. iv Jackson (Jr.) son,
b 8 Nov 1896 in Kansas, d 10 May 1978 in Denver, Denver, Colorado, and was
buried in Fairmount Maus. Jackson
was married Jun 1921 in Denver to Eva Gertrude Bardwell {b 2 Dec 1900 in Denver
and d Dec 1974 in Denver}. From Denver city directories we find for Jackson and Eva: 1961 Jackson Jr, and
Eva - civ, Eng. GSA, 3200 E Virginia Ave. 1962 Jackson and Eva
- Eng. US Govt., 720 Jackson St. 1964 Jackson and Eva
G. - retd., 720 Jackson St. 1968 Jackson and Eva
G. - retd.,
ditto 1971 Jackson -
retd., 1223 Race St. Apt. 701 1972 Jackson -
retd. ditto 1973 Jackson - 1201
Williams St. 1974 Jackson - 1250
Humboldt St. Apt. 1203 1978 Jackson -
retd., 1250 Humboldt St. Apt. 1203 1979 Eva G., Mrs. -
retd., 1295 Race St. From the Denver Post Sat 20 May 1978: “Services for Jackson Brown Jr., 81, were Tuesday at
McConaty’s Boulevard Mortuary. Entombment at Fairmount Mausolelum. Brown, of 1250 Humbolt St., died
May 10 at Presbyterian Medical Center following a short ilness. “He was born Nov. 8, 1896, in Kansas and was educated in
Topeka, Kansas schools. He was a World war I veteran and a graduate of the
University of Colorado. “Brown married Eva Gertrude Bardwell in June of 1921. “Brown, a retired civil engineer, was a 32nd-degree Mason, a
member of Scottish Rite Bodie and a former member of the Denver Country Club.
He also participated in numerous bridge tournaments. “Surviving are: a son Bardwell Brown of Denver; a daughter,
Mrs. Beverly Brown McConaty of Denver; and four grandchildren.” The two children of Jackson and Eva Gertrude (Bardwell) Brown: 1 Bardwell son, b
before 1930 in Denver. 2 Beverly dtr. Beverly and her husband were living in
Denver at the time of her father’s death in 1978 [Obituary, Denver Post,
20 May] 
