Catherine's Story — The Thomas and Hannah (Pittinger) Brown Family of Foxville, Maryland

Catharine Dorothea Brown

Catharine Dorothea Brown was the youngest of Thomas and Hannah’s family. The family called her Kate. She was born on March 26, 1784, probably while the family was living in the Creagerstown area. She was baptized on April 4, 1790, having just turned 6, in St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Creagerstown, along with her 10-year-old brother John Nathan (see baptismal record under Hannah’s Story). The church was established in 1787 with shared congregations of Lutherans and Reformed but the latter eventually died out. In the transcribed baptismal record she is listed as “Catherina,” but in the original baptismal record she is listed as “Dorothee Catharina.” On the baptismal record the parents are listed as “Thomas and Hanna,” and the sponsor is listed as “Hanna, the mother.” This would seem to indicate that Hannah was on her own by this time, because Thomas is believed to have died between 1786 and 1789. It is doubtful Catharine would have remembered much about her father. Around 1791 Hannah moved the family to the cabin known as the Brown farmstead in Round Meadow.

Little is known about Catharine’s early life, but, being the youngest, perhaps she was doted upon and followed all of her siblings down the mountain paths as they visited their many relatives and went from farm to farm. At the age of 23 she married Thomas Caster on January 20, 1807, at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Hagerstown, Maryland, which was established in 1770 and had a flourishing congregation by this time and is where her older sister Mary Elizabeth (Polly) was married. The marriage record shows as “Thom. Custer and Chath. Brown, Jan. 1807.” In census records and other documents Jacob Thomas Caster goes by Thomas Caster. Whether his full name originally was Jacob Thomas Caster or Thomas Jacob Caster is unclear. A number of Casters in Pennsylvania seem to descend from an immigrant Paulus Kuster, a Mennonite mason, who is listed on the 1693 tax list of Germantown, Pennsylvania. The Casters originally were part of the German migration from the Palatinate and the name is alternately spelled Custer/Custard/Kuster. Thomas’s parentage, however, cannot be definitively proven.

In 1810 there is a census listing for a J Caster or a T Caster that is just above the listing for Daniel Gordon, who married Catharine’s sister Susannah. It lists a household with two males ages 16 to 25, one male 26 to 44, two females younger than 10, and one female 16 to 26. Because Thomas and Catharine were fairly recently married perhaps they were living with his parents and siblings.

Thomas and Catharine were blessed with four daughters: Nancy Violetta born in 1811, Catharine Lavinia born in 1812, Martha Ann Susanna born in 1814, and Mary born in 1817. Some records indicate that a son was born later in the marriage, possibly in 1833. A male aged 5 to 10 is listed with Thomas and Catharine in the 1840 census, but nothing more has been found about him and perhaps he died young.

In 1826 Thomas signed an agreement with his brothers-in-law to create another school from the one that had been established in Harbaugh’s Valley in 1821 and pay a teacher by subscription per student to educate their children. It might have been at this school that three of the Caster girls met their future husbands, who were their first cousins, all sons of Catharine’s sister Mary Elizabeth (Polly) and her husband Michael Swope. It does seem that the two sisters lived near each other. Nancy Violetta married John W. Swope; Martha Ann Susanna married Ignatius Swope, and Mary married Jacob Swope. Catharine Lavinia married Ezra Munson, the son of Samuel Munson and Elizabeth McDonnell. Ezra Munson was born in Creagerstown in 1811. His older brother Lewis Munson married Elizabeth Swope, one of the daughters of her sister Polly. The Munson family was of English descent and had immigrated into the area from Connecticut, where Edward Munson was one of the first founders of New Haven, and then through New Jersey to western Maryland. All these families stayed in the area, residing in either Frederick County or Washington County.

In 1820 the Casters lived in Election District No. 5 in Frederick County, and in 1830 they lived in Election District No. 10. In 1840 Catharine and Thomas are recorded as living in Cavetown, Maryland, just west of Foxville in Washington County. There is no census record for them in 1850.

The first daughter, Nancy Violetta Swope, lived on Short Hill Trace, a 37-acre farm near Chewsville, Maryland, just west of Cavetown, that her husband had purchased from his parents Michael and Mary Elizabeth Brown Swope, who lived with him in at the time. They are buried in the Bethel United Methodist (originally United Brethren) Church Cemetery in Chewsville.

The second daughter, Catharine Lavinia Munson, raised a family in the southern part of Washington County near Tilghmanton and Bakersville. Her husband Ezra Munson was a shinglemaker and justice of the peace. Their first son, Josephus Washington Munson, was a cooper and broom maker and took frequent trading trips to Illinois. He married Juliann Boyer, the daughter of Samuel Boyer, who ran a fleet of canal boats on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal during the 1850’s and 1860’s. Her second child was a daughter named Catharine, who died at 2 months of age in 1837. Her second and third sons, Calvin Israel Munson and Zephaniah Joshua Markwood Munson, served during the Civil War in the Union Army in Company H, Third Regiment, Maryland Volunteers, from September 1863 to September 1865. Calvin was the oldest survivor in Hagerstown, Maryland, of the Grand Army of the Republic, served as commander of the Reno Post of the G.A.R., and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Hagerstown with military honors and a gun salute. Zephaniah moved to Blue Springs, Nebraska, in the 1870’s when it was only an Indian trading post. Catharine and Ezra’s daughter Juliann Lucinda, known as Annie, married George W. Barnes, who also served in the infantry during the Civil War in Company D of the 126th and 210th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Thus, Catharine and Ezra must have had considerable concerns during this period with two sons and a son-in-law all serving and while living within a stone’s throw of Sharpsburg, Maryland, and having witnessed the carnage of the Battle of Antietam and then having both sons enlist just two months after the Battle of Gettysburg. Then the son they had at home during this time, William Septimus, died in 1867 at the age of 16 and is buried in the Salem Lutheran Church Cemetery in Bakersville, Maryland, as are Catherine Lavinia and Ezra.

The third daughter, Martha Ann Susanna, and her husband Ignatius stayed on the mountain and are buried in the Pleasant Valley Methodist Church Cemetery, formerly the Foxville United Brethren Church Cemetery. They had ten children, at least three of whom died in infancy.

The fourth daughter, Mary, and her husband Jacob Swope farmed 26½ acres that in 1892 included a 2½ story log weatherboarded house, barn, and outbuildings with 900 peach trees and 35 apple trees. Of their seven children only two daughters survived to adulthood. Mary and Jacob Swope are buried in Brown’s Cemetery.

Catharine Brown Caster died on March 22, 1851, and Thomas Caster died on September 6, 1853. Both are buried in Brown’s Cemetery, Foxville, Maryland.

**Headstone for Catharine Dorothea Brown Caster**

SOURCES:

History of Western Maryland, Volume II, by J. Thomas Scharf, Baltimore, MD: Regional Publishing Company, 1968.

The Flautt Family in America (including those Flautts who changed their name to Floyd), by Rachael Sleasman Schwartz and Harry D. Bowman, Hagerstown, MD, Dixie Press, n.d.

“The Brown Family,” by Andree W. Wilson-Taylor, in Antietam Ancestors, Volume V, no. 1.

Baptismal Records of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Creagerstown, Maryland, available at bobfoutgenealogy.com

Records of the St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Hagerstown, Maryland, by Mary Burgner Greenawalt, Hagerstown, MD, n.d., Volumes 1 and 2.

Descendants of Catharine Dorothea Brown Caster

Catharine Dorothea (Kate)

b. 3/26/1784

bap. 4/4/1790, St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Creagerstown, MD

d. 3/22/1851

m. Jacob Thomas Caster on 1/20/1807, St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church,

Hagerstown, MD

b. 10/17/1785 Hauver’s, Frederick County, MD

d. 9/6/1853

res: 1820 Frederick County District 5; 1830 Frederick County District 10; 1840 Cavetown,

Washington County

Both buried Brown’s Cemetery, Foxville, MD

I. Nancy Violetta

b. 12/24/1811

d. 12/11/1882, age 72y, 11m, 71d

m. John W. Swope (1802-5/21/1891) on 3/25/1831, Chewsville, MD

(s/o Michael and Mary Elizabeth [Brown] Swope; her first cousin)

res: Short Hill Trace farm near Chewsville, MD bought from his parents who lived with him at the time

Both buried Bethel United Brethren (now Methodist) Church Cemetery, Chewsville, MD

A. George Hiram (12/13/1831-8/28/1909), Waynesboro, PA; bur. Chewsville, MD

m. Barbara Fulton (1833-1909) on 12/24/1855 in Washington County, MD

1. Daniel C. (d. 1862)

2. George W. (1856-1928)

3. Nettie (1867-1960)

B. David Ignatius (3/31/1833-11/26/1894)

m. Mary Ann Swope (2/1/1829-10/20/1884) in St. John’s Lutheran Church, Hagerstown, MD, his first cousin

(d/o Thomas and Mary A. [Caye] Swope

Both bur. Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Chewsville, MD

1. John Emory (1857-1914)

2. David H. (1862-1880)

3. Margaret Ellen (1862-1893), m. William Henry Springer

4. Infant (1863-1863)

5. Daniel T. (3/2/1866-7/12/1913)

m. Clara E. Snyder (1870-1952) in 1892

a. Floyd Daniel (1898-1974)

m. Pansy Arnold (1905-1959)

1) Levena Elizabeth (7/13/1924-10/21/1979), m. Charles E. Welch

2) Edward Daniel (1926-2014)

m. Betty Ruth Kepler

3) Donald Lee (1928-1980), m. Alice Olive Palmer

a) Roger Lee (1950-2010)

4) Vivian Christina (11/6/1932-11/12/2024)

m. John D. Bussard, Sr. in 1953

5) Anna Elenore (1936-1938)

6) Wilbur

7) Charlotte

8) Dalton

9) Sylvia, m. ___ Johnson

6. Emma J. (1868-1870)

C. Thomas H. (1833-1850), bur. Brown’s Cemetery

D. Mary Catherine (b. 1839)

E. Elizabeth A. (1843-1890)

F. Cornelia A. M. (1849-1861), bur. Brown’s Cemetery

G. Martha Adeline (1849-1919)

m. George Washington Copenhaver (1850-1927) on 9/19/1870 in Washington Co., MD

1. Winton Kericough (6/16/1871 Rohrersville, MD-6/6/1949 Washington, DC)

H. Hester Ann E. (1852-1910)

II. Catharine Lavinia (3/31/1812-10/11/1886), age 74, Tilghmanton, MD

m. Ezra Munson (4/4/1811-2/28/1891) on 1/10/1834

occ: shinglemaker, shoemaker, cooper

Both bur. Salem Lutheran Church Cemetery, Bakersville, MD

res: in 1840 Cavetown, MD; in 1860 Jefferson County, WV (then VA); in 1870

in Fairplay, MD, with their oldest son Josephus; in 1880 with daughter Annie Barnes

A. Josephus Washington (2/25/1835-12/27/1897)

res: Washington County, MD; Roseburg, OR; Warrensburg, IL by 1879

occ: cooper, broom maker

m1. Juliann Boyer (1/22/1840-5/28/1868) on 9/14/1858

1. Charles Elmer (11/10/1859, MD-2/15/1948, Roseburg, OR)

m. Mary Florence Bonghn on 12/25/1880 in Macon County, IL

a. William Orville (b.1882)

m. Myrtle Ivy Rose in Roseburg, OR

b. Jesse Franklin (11/4/1884-11/26/1956)

c. Charles Roy (1887-4/8/1953)

d. Cecil Alva (1889-1969)

e. Mabel Vida (3/16/1894-4/13/1993)

m. Raymond Leonard Robinson

f. Victor Dewey (1898-1900)

g. Olive May (Betty) (2/10/1900-11/29/1981)

m. Paul Breckner

h. Ruth Irene (10/10/1903-9/5/1975)

m. Samuel Lloyd Hebard

i. Mildred L. (6/18/1907-10/1/1989)

2. Ida Lavinia Munson (1/28/1861-10/23/1950), bur. Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

m. John Clinton Brown (10/10/1860-12/14/1925) on Dec. 7, 1879

(no relation to the Foxville Brown line)

a. Irene May (6/20/1880-11/1/1882)

b. Claude Clinton (9/1/1881-10/2/1963)

m. Mary Agnes (Polly) Brown (no relation to the Foxville Brown line)

c. Howard Murray (3/26/1884-7/21/1885)

d. Julia Elizabeth (1/12/1887-3/25/1953)

m. Robert Clinton Stouffer (8/29/1882-1/9/1919, possibly Spanish flu)

1) Robert Francis (8/8/1907-10/28/1950)

m. Margaret Virginia Bloom (6/2/1908-11/9/1985)

2) Helen Elizabeth (12/17/1909-9/1/1962)

m. Merton Dangerfield Carper (9/15/1902-6/3/1953)

3) Arthur Brown (12/19/1911-1/21/1990; Alzheimer's disease)

m. Mary Catherine (Kitty) Keefer (2/16/1909-12/13/1995)

e. Anna Ruby (9/18/1890-9/1/1977)

m. Grover Cleveland Ruth (11/6/1984-2/19/1979

1) William Cleveland (3/29/1917-2/16/2007)

m. Margaret Elizabeth Easterday (4/14/1920-11/19/2007)

mil: U.S Navy and Merchant Marine in WWII

2) John Markwood (11/11/1918-3/26/1920

3) Doris Virginia (5/14/1921-5/16/2016)

m. Franklin Scott Leiter (10/22/1919-1/23/2008)

4) George Franklin (2/23/1923-7/3/2008)

m. Patricia Reisner (8/11/1923-3/23/1994)

mil: Naval Air Corps in WWII

5) Julia Lucille (9/8/1924-1/29/2019)

m. Claude William Karn (3/29/1924-3/27/2000)

6) Claude Allan (8/14/1926-8/16/2017)

m. Louise Virginia Eckard (3/31/1928-11/20/2004)

mil: U.S. Navy in 1944 WWII

f. Sarah Catherine (7/9/1893-11/17/1925)

m. Earl Edison Hill

1) Thelma Gaynell (6/10/1911-2/2/2005)

m. Frank Edward Wheatley, d. 1967

2) Ida (d. infancy)

3) Carl (d. infancy)

4) Louise Virginia (d. infancy)

5) Laura Jane, b, 1/13/1918-/3/42020)

m. Norman Keller (Bud) Snook

6) Betty Lee (2/20/1922-4/10/2007)

m. Lloyd Rudy

g. Ida Louise (1/31/1899-11/30/1993)

m1. Charles L. Worthington on 12/24/1927 in Lebanon Coumty, PA; div.

m2. James Giles (12/14/1893-9/22/1987)

3. Emma Catharine (5/16/1862-1918)

4. Calvin F. (7/16/1863-3/16/1891), Franklin, KS

5. Nannie Florence (Nelly) (11/24/1865)

6. William Ezra (1/3/1867-7/28/1868)

m2. Harriet Matilda Cooper on 10/4/1871

7. Harvey Mundell (1/8/1873-3/8/1873)

8. Rhoda Lillian (2/19/1874-12/28/1964)

m. George W. Major on 2/18/1895

9. Ada Myrtle, b. 11/26/1876

m. Robert Advent

10. Henry Earl (6/20/1880-4/13/1955)

m. Anna M. Brie on 1/27/1927

11. Markwood M. (8/20/1887-5/28/1946)

B. Catherine E. (7/1837-9/25/1837) age 2 months; bur. Salem Lutheran Church Cemetery in Bakersville, MD

C. Calvin Israel (5/7/1840-2/23/1928)

mil: Sgt. Co H, Third Regiment, Maryland Volunteers, USA, Sept. 1863 to Sept. 1865

m. Annie M. Kookus on 3/20/1866 in Martinsburg, WV

1. Martin E. (3/12/1867-6/24/1940)

2. Sarah (Sallie) J. (b. 7/5/1869)

3. Edward S. (7/16/1872-4/15/1928)

m. Edith D. Reynolds in 1905

D. Zephaniah Joshua Markwood (2/5/1843-1/1/1930)

occ: shinglemaker

mil: Pvt. Co H, Third Regiment Maryland Volunteers, USA, Sept. 1863 to Sept. 1865

m1. Elizabeth L. Basore on 6/19/1866

m2. Veldora Vashtie Baird on 9/14/1914

1. Rena (1/22/1873-12/21/1894), Blue Springs, NB

m. Robert H. Murgatroyd on 12/19/1891

E. Juliann Lucinda (Annie) (12/11/1846-7/14/1909)

m. George W. Barnes (1839-1/2/1908) on 5/12/1870

1. Julia May (b. 2/6/1873-1/19/1918)

m. George William Widdows on 5/12/1892

2. Ena Isola (7/7/1875-12/8/1957)

m. Frank Regan Middlekauff in 1902

3. Meta Lounetta (1/27/1878-10/22/1941)

m. Leonard F. Sterling

4. Dudley Nevitt (8/29/1879-8/28/1933)

m. Mary Elizabeth Kreitz

5. Claude Garfield (8/29/1881-10/31/1930)

m. Altha Albin

6. Ursia Viola (b. 7/30/1886)

m. John Andrew Swemly

F. William Septimus (1851-9/9/1867) aged 16y, 7m, 17d, bur. Salem Lutheran Church Cemetery, Bakersville, MD

III. Martha Ann Susanna (11/7/1814-4/3/1888, age 73y, 4m, 27d

m. Ignatius Swope on 3/17/1836, Smithsburg, by Rev. J. P. Cline

(s/o Michael and Mary Elizabeth [Brown] Swope]; her first cousin)

bur. Foxville United Brethren (now Pleasant Valley United Methodist) Church Cemetery

A. Martha Ann (1/13/1837-12/11/1879)

m. Jacob Warrenfeltz Kline (1835-1881)

Both bur. Salem United Methodist Church Cemetery, Wolfsville, MD

1. Ida Virgina (11/30/1860-6/12/1942), bur. Smithsburg Cemetery

m. Henry Lee Wolf (1864-1943)

a. Flora May (9/5/1882-7/21/1966), bur. Smithsburg Cemetery

b. Loy Nelson (2/27/1884-10/18/1969, bur. Wolfsville Reformed Cemetery

m. Nettie Florence Kline (1884-1980)

1) Rachel Catherine (1909-1985)

2) Nelson L. (1911-1926)

3) Josephine Ruth (1914-1975)

4) Maurine Edgar (1916-1968)

5) Albert L. (1918-2014)

6) Woodrow Wilson (1920-2010)

7) Cyrus Edward (1922-2009)

8) S. Virginia (1924-2005), m. John Kenneth Warrenfeltz

9) Florence Lorraine (1927-2011), m. Harry Millard Leatherman

10) Dorothy Raetta (1925-2019), m. Elvin Jacob Schroyer

c. Mary Alice (11/11/1885-1/21/1968)

m. Edgar Marshall Hoffman (1889-1929)

1) Mary Alice, m. ____ Smith

2) Margaret R. (1919-1998), m. Russell L. Blickenstaff

a) Constance Louise (1/5/1938-6/7/2016)

d. Etta R. (1888-5/26/1959, bur. Boonsboro Cemetery

m. Daniel W. Cross (1881-1962)

e. Cyrus Henry (9/11/1899-7/31/1967), bur Lake View Cemetery, Howell, MI

m. Elizabeth Edna Blaul (1893-1938) in 1919

f. Alvin Lee (8/25/1891-6/10/1892), bur. Smithsburg Cemetery

g. Ira Leon (1894-1935), bur Smithsburg Cemetery

m. Nellie Lenora Wolfe (1895-1995)

1) Audrey K (1916-1987) (listed as Audrey K. Ingram on headstone)

2) Kenneth Henry (1917-2003)

3) Nevin Leon (1918-1998)

4) Bernice V. (1921-2019), m. Glenn S. Sease

5) Ruth G. (1923-2019), m. Herbert Leon Ingram

6) Evelyn Regina (1925-2007), m. Charles W. Hessong

7) Mary Mae (1929-2020), m. William Melvin Lewis

8) Robert Lee (1932-2017)

h. Rufus Lester (8/13/1896-8/22/1987), bur Smithsburg Cemetery

2. Silas Albertus 11/29/(1862-4/1/1941), bur. Woodsboro, MD

m1. Annie Ellen Misner (1874-1908)

a. Harvey D. (d. 1902)

b. Marvin Henry (1885-1976)

c. Myrtle Rebecca (1890-1948), m. Charles Edward Brunner

d. Gertrude Pearl (1896-1955)

e. Roy Daniel (1898-1984)

f. Earcy Eutze (1900-1945)

g. Hester Marie (1901-1975)

h. Flora Alice (1903-1992)

i. Mary (1904-2001), m. John William Engle

j. Reba Etta (1906-1999), m. Harry Russell Strevig

k. Arthur Albertus (1908-1908)

m2. Etta May Fogle (1889-1955)

l. Zelma Irene (1910-1990)

m. Ray Reno (1911-1974

n. Silas Edward (1914-2003)

o. Dorothy Mae (1916-1994), m. John David Biddinger

p. Ira Sylvester (1917-2011)

q. Georgette D. (1924-2013)

r. Richard Lee (1925-2013)

s. Anna Catherine (1926-2014), m. Nevin W. Staley

t. William Kenneth (1929-2016)

3. Hester Ann Elizabeth (8/23/1865-4/7/1959)

m. John Benjamin Swope (1858-1920)

a. Evalyn Lucretia (1889-1985), m. James Gardner Miles

1) Harry Gardner (1915-1969)

2) Kenneth Sylvester (1917-2012)

3) Charlotte Viola (1919-2011), m. Joseph F. Sorge

4) Robert Harding (1920-1998)

5) Virginia Ruth (1922-2016), m. Daniel K. Seibert

6) John C.

7) Madelyn, m. Irvin Horst

8) Martha Lucille (1931-2018), m. Warren Victor Middlekauff

b. Viola Grace (1893-1998), m. George William Bloyer

c. Beulah A. (1894-1974), m. George Benjamin Bachtell

4. Elizabeth H. (b. 1866-died young ?)

5. Daniel Ignatius (3/8/1868-9/27/1961), bur. Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

m. Sarah Victoria Catherine Rohrer

a. Harry Wade (1891-1969)

b. John Webster (1893-1984)

c. Mary Martha (1895-1989), m. ____ Glenn

d. Daniel Clayton (1899-1982)

e. Hazel Christena, m. ____ Artz

f. Chester Rohrer (1909-1988)

g. Ruth Elizabeth (1911-1984), m. Charles Dwigginis

h. Edgar Marshall (1917-1990)

6. Alfred S. (12/10/1870-12/19/1932), single, bur. Saint Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery, Clear Spring, MD

7. Rufus (12/7/1872-6/19/1960), bur. Haughs Cemetery, Ladiesburg, MD

m. Emma Jane Lewis (1876-1946)

a. Earl Ellsworth (3/21/1897-3/13/1981), bur. Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, PA

m1. Marguerite Pearl Gulden (1920-1923, suicide from postpartum depression)

1) Virginia Marguerite (1923-1969)

m. Charles Augustus Clem (1918-2001)

a) Betty Jean (1943-2020)

m2. Eleanor Wilhelmina Grothe (1894-1980) in 1930

2) Edward Frank (4/18/1931-3/30/2014)

b. Clarence Nelson (1988-1986)

c. Sherman C. (1901-1985)

d. Gail Wesley (1907-1997)

8. Ira Sylvester (2/7/1876-12/5/1960), bur. Broadfording Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

m1. Lillie M. (1876-1921)

a. Preston S. (1900-1900, age 9 mos.)

m2. Elsie M. Besecker (1885-1982)

9. Minnie F. (11/11/1879-8/1/1880), bur. Salem Methodist Cemetery, Wolfsville, MD

B. Infant daughter (1839-1839)

C. Thomas Ephraim (6/6/1840-1/15/1927), Blue Springs, Gage County, NB

m. Mary Ann Buhrman (d/o John Buhrman and Rebecca Ridenour)

mil: 13th MD Inf Co F

1. Emma Eleanor (1864-1944), m. Casebeer

2. Dalva Hamit (1867-1926)

m. Pauline F. Green in Brockton, MA

occ: physician

3. Jenness

m1. Colburn

m2. Ulysses M. Patterson on 6/2/1900 in Blue Springs, NB

a) Lyson Emery

b) Jane Buhrman

c) Oscar Clinton (b. 11/9/1876)

ed: Boston University

occ: physician in 1901

mil: major in US Army; on June 17, 1919, transported on “Antigone” from St. Navaire, France to

Newport News, VA, listed as having asthenia from follicular influenza (Spanish flu)

m. Julia May Corey 9/25/1907 in Plymouth, MA

D. Silas Michael (1843-1876), bur. Foxville United Brethren Church Cemetery

E. Infant daughter (1846-1846)

F. Ezra Uriah (8/23/1847-Jan. 1918), Iola, Allen, KS

m. Victoria I. Holtzman in 1873 in Washington County, MD

G. George (1850-1850)

H. Mary Ellen (b. abt. 1852)

I. Eliza Ann (b. abt. 1855)

J. Virginia (2/1/1858-7/19/1884). Good Hope, MD

m. Mahlon K. Wolf (1858-1928)

Both bur. Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church Cemetery

IV. Mary (9/18/1817-3/17/1861)

m. Jacob Swope (1805-11/19/1852) on 4/13/1837, Washington County

(s/o Michael and Mary Elizabeth [Brown] Swope]; her first cousin)

Both bur. Brown’s Cemetery

Five children died in infancy, three of whom are buried in Brown’s Cemetery

A. Catharine Louise (9/19/1838-12/19/1923)

m. Jacob Swope (1836-1890)

(s/o Noah and Matilda [Kendle] Swope; her first cousin)

occ: In 1900 census as widow worked as housekeeper for Jonathan Smith on Warner Road, Mt. Zion, MD;

in 1910 she was living on Oak Hill Avenue and working as a cook at the Alms house in Hagerstown, MD

1. Jacob Sylvester (1857-1861)

2. Mary Ann L. (1860-5/18/1900)

m. George W. Brown (s/o Daniel and Sarah Manahan Brown; gs/o John Nathan Brown,

her 1st cousin once removed)

a. Lottie Pearl (d. 1897, infancy)

b. Lillie Ann (4/10/1878-8/6/1943), m. John Richard Bowman (1872-1958) in 1895

c. Otha Ellsworth (1880-1964)

m. Lucinda Pearl Masters (1881-1961)

1) Lester Otho (9/11/1925-6/23/1962), m. Bertha Virginia Potter in 1924

2) Mary Catherine (12/11/1907-2?16/2018), m. William Leisinger Crum, Sr., on 11/26/1927

3) Charles Leroy (5/5/1909-5/5/1909)

4) Margaret Elizabeth (1/29/1912-5/1/2002), m. Raymond G. Bream

5) Otha Ray (11/4/1914-5/28/2005)

m. Edna B. Brining (1916-1987)

a) William E. (d. bef. 2005)

b) Carolyn R. (10/13/1943-11/24/2023), m. Ronald L. Kline

c) Edna Diane (10/7/1952-2/21/2013)

d) Ken

6) Anna Mae (10/21/1917-12/10/1981, m. Joseph A. Mong

7) Lillian Irene (1920-2007), m. Austin V. Martin

d. Daisy (1882-1899)

e. Jesse Jacob (1884-1953), m. Marjorie Clyde Brown (1891-1976)

(d/o David Columbus Brown and Sarah Ann Lumm, his cousin)

1) Mahlon Joseph (1909-1960)

m. Viola Elizabeth Toms

a) Robert M. (10/31/1931-1/24/2024)

mil: US Navy Korean War

2) Raymond J. (b. 1910)

3) Nina Pearl (1913-1973), m. Bohn

4) Carmen Irene

5) Lewis Verne (1/17/1917-3/18/1929)

6) Jesse David (6/3/1919-1/11/1996)

m. Beulah Irene Piper on 5/24/1941

7) Ruby Kathleen (1921-1984), m. Sower

8) Iris June (1924-2012)

9) Marjorie (1926-1926)

10) Shirley Viola (9/6/1928-2/10/2002)

m1. Roy Charles Delauter in 1947 (killed in North Korea 12/2/1950, age 21)

a) Living Daughter

b) Living Daughter

m2. George Lee Kline

c) Bernard Lee Kline (1951-1977)

d) Living Son

e) Jesse Jay Kline (1955-1972, hit by car)

11) Dixie Faye (11/19/1929-2/24/2012), m. Charles M. Eccard

12) Harry Wayne (4/14/1934-1/2/1979), m1. Bertha Virginia Poper; m2. Marjorie Smith

13) Judith Dawn (1935-2008), m. Hartman

14) Rosalie Gail (1938-2010), m1. Clark; m2. Smith; m3. Friend

f. Lula S. (1885-1909 typhoid fever), m. Charles R. Alexander

g. Bertha V. (1889-1953), m. Lewis Franklin Smith

h. Daniel (d. 1891, infancy)

i. George Ira (8/5/1893-1942), M. Ida M. Kindle

j. Carrie Marie (1/12/1899-12/15/1980), m. Lester Charles Line

3. Daniel E. (5/14/1864-11/23/1897, age 33)

m. Amanda Ellen Wilson (1855-1911)

occ: farmer

a. Roy Nelson (11/28/1887-10/23/1953, bur. Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church Cemetery

m. Mary Catherine Tracey (1887-1968

1) Daniel Roy (1906-1932)

2) Goldie Naomi (1908-1947), m. ___ Whitmore

3) Wesley McKinley (1909-1983)

4) Annie Irene (1913-1968), m. Robert Embly

5) Edna Marie (1914-1993), m. Henry Mitchel Embly

6) Frances Jeanette (1918-2009), m. Vernon K. Stuckey

7) Pearl V. (1919-2002), m. ___ Harbaugh

8 )Richard Roy (1922-1922)

9) Betty M. (1923-2008), m. Ray E Fahrney

10) Joseph D. (1924-1988)

11) Raul Kenneth (1933-1933)

12) Roy Nelson (1935-2012)

b. Charles E. (1891-1891)

c, Jacob Ezra (1893-1893)

d. Annie Marie (1897-1942)

m1. Harry Toms (1888-1920) in 1912

1) Eleanor Ada (1912-2002)

m. Harry Leroy Muritz

a) Nancy Ellen (1;26;1945-5/15/2023

m. Marvin Wayne Hurley

b) Living Daughter

m2. Ezra Glenn (1887-1962)2)

2) Margaret Ruth (1922-2007), m. Leonard Lee Upton

3) Edward Ralph (1925-2017)

4) Jane Marie (1927-2021)

5)James

4. Nettie M. (1868-

5. Agnes (1871-1871)

6. Alice (1871-1871)

7. John Wesley (1872-1963)

m. Ida May Rebecca Cline (1870-1933)

res: In 1900 on Warner Road, Mt. Zion, MD

occ: farm laborer

a. Herman

b. Anna Mae (1893-1981, m. John W. Webb

c. Charles Emerick (1/13/1895-6/24/1962)

m. Mary E. Williard

1) Margaret Mae (12/21/1824-1/15/2014)

m. Ray Samuel Brandenburg (10/10/1923-6/11/2010) on 6/20/1922

Both bur. Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church Cemetery

a) Steven Thomas (1944-6/2/2000)

d. Mable (1896-1896)

e. Jacob Lester (1898-1900)

f. Marjorie Ellen (1901-1974), m. Phillip R. Forrest

g. Clifford Jason (1902-1902)

h. John Wesley (1904-2001)

i. Paul National (1907-1907)

j. Kieffer Leroy (1908-1983)

k.Lottie Eleanor (1910-1959), m. Lloyd W. Remsburg

8. Fannie Virginia (4/26/1875-7/14/1953)

m. Henry M. Bowman

9. Charles

B. Mary Susan (2/24/1846-11/28/1930)

rel: Dunkard, bur. Welty Church of the Brethren, Smithsburg, MD

m. Jonathan Frey (1841-1914)

1. Deliah Virginia (5/28/1865-5/28/1913)

2. Charles C. (2/4/1868-5/19/1949)

m. Annie Maria Newcomer (1863-1940)

a. David Clyde (1906-1906)

3. Joseph Markwood (1870-7/12/1935), bur. Smithsburg Cemetery

m. Anna May Masters (1875-1963)

a. Harry L. (1897-1973), m. Naomi Cathryn Smith

1) M. Elizabeth (1919-2005)

2) Harry Lester (1921-2000)

3) Robert Eugene (1924-2004)

4) Thurman Lee (1925-2007)

5) Alphred Markwood (1927-2017)

6) Donald Leo (1932-2012)

7) Charles (1923-2018)

b. Raymond R. (1898-1986), m. Mary E. Welty

c. J. Kieffer (1904-1994), m. Ruthe Irene Bucher

c. R. Kenneth (8/22/1915-9/20/2007)

m. Verna R. Keller (1918-1993)

1) Susan J. (4/10/1944-1/3/2024), bur. Spring Hill Cemetery, Chambersburg, PA

m. Richard I. Ernst

2) Sandra F., m. Ken Dunnington

3) Carol Ann, m. Ron Rinehart

4. Silas Upton (3/1/1872-5/9/1892)

5. Archie Elmer (9/14/1873-12/2/1955)

m. Margaret C. Stouffer (1870-1938)

a. Susan Mary (1899-1942)

b. Cora E. (1901-1960), m. ___ Himes

c. Clarence C. (1903-1965), m. Mae J. Miller

1) Virginia Mae (1926-2015), m. Carroll Patterson Talley

2) Evelyn E. (1928-2005), m. George C. Warner Sr7/12/.

3) Fae Josephine (1940-2023), m. Franklin Ernest Barnhart

d. Alvie Wilbur (1905-1906)

e. Ira Elmer (1907-1996)

f. Pearl M. (1909-2007)

m. Lester R. Brown (1906-1980)