Thomas Brown, Jr.

Thomas Brown, Jr. was born on January 12, 1773, in the Monocacy settlement. Around 1793 or 1794, he married Susannah Rebecca Harman, the daughter of Marcus and Christina (Leatherman) Harman. The Harmans owned land on Catoctin Hollow Road near the present site of the National Parks Service visitor center. On February 3, 1807, he acquired 165 acres known as “Resurvey on Round Meadow and Stands Enough.” This was the property where Hannah had raised the younger children, and it is thought that this is about the time that she may have died and when he was able to obtain the land. Thomas operated a tavern near Harman’s Gap.

All the children of this family were born in Foxville and included Thomas III, b. 1795; Elizabeth, b. 1797; Mary Ann, b. 1798; John, b. 1799; George, b. 1803; Susan, b. 1804; Catherine, b. 1805; Sarah Ann, b. 1812; William H., b. 1813; and Christian, b. 1815. However, this is the only branch of the Brown family that had wanderlust because many of these children migrated west to Ohio around 1835 by oxcart as the lands of the new nation opened for settlement.

Thomas III served in the Maryland militia in the War of 1812. He married Susanna McAfee in 1818 at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hagerstown, Maryland. They had two children and about 1836 migrated to Bethel Township, Ohio.

Elizabeth married Daniel Hawver in 1815 and this family also migrated to Carlisle, Bethel Township, Ohio about 1836 possibly with her brother. They had 13 children, and all retained the Hawver, not Hauver, spelling of their surname.

Mary Ann married Christian Gates and they had a farm in Foxville and had four children, several of whom also migrated to Miami County, Ohio.

John died at the age of 12 and is buried in Brown’s Cemetery in the family plot.

George married Julia Ann Scott about 1824 and acquired the Brown homestead in 1830 but around 1835 he packed up the family and headed west to Seneca County, Ohio, where he farmed and was a cooper and justice of the peace.

Susan married John Barnhiser in 1828 at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hagerstown and had five children while they lived in Washington County, Maryland, and another five after moving also to Seneca County, Ohio, around 1837.

Catherine married Daniel McAfee in 1826, also at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church and they went to Miami County, Ohio around 1838.

Sarah Ann married William Martin in Seneca County in 1836 and they later lived in Illinois and Salt Lake City, Utah.

William married first Catherine Brown, the daughter of William and Anna Elizabeth Buhrman Brown, and thus his first cousin. They had four children and after her death he remarried a Sarah (last name unknown) and had another daughter. This family seems to have been the only one that stayed in the area, residing in Greencastle, Pennsylvania.

The last child of Thomas, Jr., and Susanna Rebecca Brown was Christian. He married Susannah Shaull in 1840 in Seneca County, Ohio, and they had three sons.

Thomas Brown Jr. died April 12, 1828. His wife died on June 14, 1831. Both are buried in Brown’s Cemetery.

Headstone for Thomas Brown, Jr.

Headstone for Susannah (Susan) Rebecca Harman Brown


SOURCE:

“The Brown Family,” by Andree W. Wilson-Taylor, in Antietam Ancestors, Volume V, no. 1, copyright 1991.


 Descendants of Thomas Brown, Jr.

Thomas Brown, Jr.

      b. 1/12/1773 Frederick County, MD

      d. 4/12/1828 Foxville, MD

      occ: tavernkeeper near Harman's Gap

      m. Susannah Rebecca Harman (4/15/1775-6/14/1831)

      Both bur. Brown’s Cemetery, Foxville, MD

      All the children were born in Foxville, MD

Children:

I. Thomas (8/21/1795-12/27/1854)

     m. Susanna McAfee (7/2/1789-5/16/1867) on April 9, 1818

            at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Hagerstown, MD

      mil: Maryland militia in War of 1812

      res: moved to Bethel Township, OH, in 1836 or 1838

     A. John

            1. John

            2. Tobias

            3. Hattie

            4. Douglas

      B. Thomas

II. Elizabeth (1/2/1797-10/22/1880)

      m. Daniel M. Hawver (1790-1853) on 4/6/1815 in Washington County, MD

      res: Carlisle, OH around 1836/37; Bethel, OH in 1850

      A. Christian (4/28/1817-12/12/1880)

            m. Lucinda Hughes on 8/1/1820 in New Carlisle, OH

            1. William H. (1841-11/4/1896), m. Sarah M. Burdett

            2. George W. (6/1/1849-11/26/1894)

      B. Susannah (1/27/1819-1/2/1903)

            m. John Retter in 1843

            1. Rebecca (4/25/1846-4/9/1862)

            2. George W. (7/19/1848-12/28/1854)

            3. Millie A. (1856-1938)

            4. Emma E. (6/9/1858-2/5/1875)

            5. Mary (1861-1/30/1875)

            6. Lina Letitia (1863-4/12/1942)

      C. Peter (12/4/1820-7/12/1889)

            m1. Elizabeth McCord in 1851

            1. Rebecca (b. 1853)

            m2. Mary R. Wainfels in 1867

            1. Minnie Viola Arvesta (10/13/1870-8/2/1946), Shelby County, OH

                  m. William Conover Rosell

                  a. Otis Evert (1891-1920)

                  b. Maggie M. (6/4/1892-2/8/1915)

                  c. Oscar F. (1895-1917)

                  d. Forest L. (1901-1966)

                  e. Dorothy LeVeda (1906-1930)

                        m. Truman E. Reeves

            2. John Willard Franklin (1874-1949)

            3. William A. (1877-1949)

      D. George (12/4/1820-5/29/1877), Bethel McCord Cemetery, Shelby County, OH

      E. Daniel Marion, Jr. (9/26/1825-7/8/1898), Madison Township, Grundy County, MO

            m1. Eliza McCormack on 6/12/1850

            1. Elizabeth Matilda (1853-9/25/1927)

            m2. Nancy Stout (1834-1905)

            2. Francis Marion (10/21/1857-5/31/1935)

            3. Sarah Jane (10/13/1858-1936)

            4. Andrew M. (b. abt. 1860)

            5. Emma Clarissa (1/9/1861-2/28/1934)

                  m. James Robert Brown (1854-1935)

                        a. Floyd James (1903-1992)

                              m. Iona L. Moyes (1916-1992)

            6. William (b. abt. 1863)

      F. Matilda (6/9/1826-5/13/1900)

            m. Levi Retter in 1854 in Miami, OH

            1. Albert (8/22/1855-10/2/1933)

            2. Isadora (1857-2/19/1938)

            3. Myrtie (b. abt. 1861)

            4. Aisah (b. abt. 1867)

            5. John N. (1869-1/29/1875)

            6. Estella (1875-3/1/1958)

      G. Israel (7/2/1827-12/11/1917)

            m. Catherine L. Dodds on 1/1/1854

            1. Mary C. (1856-1/22/1862)

            2. William L. (1860-9/18/1862)

            3. Martha E. (b. 1864)

      H. William (8/25/1831-1/31/1909)

            m. Malinda Noggle in 1862

            1. Christopher Lemuel (5/20/1863-10/11/1929)

            2. Elizabeth N. (b. 1867)

      I. Sarah Ann (4/25/1833-1917 Seneca County, OH)

            m. William Harrison Null (2/28/1821-1908) on 8/14/1866; his second marriage;

He m1. Catherine M. Brown (d/o George and Julia Scott Brown)

            1. Ada Dora (8/5/1868-7/2/1954)

            2. Effie Lenore (5/24/1870-9/14/1959)

            3. Elizabeth Ann (8/2/1872-5/16/1908)

            4. John W. Kennedy (12/25/1875-12/8/1945)

            5. William Harrison (7/4/1880-6/4/1961)

      J. Mary Ann (11/5/1835-3/13/1891)

      K. Elizabeth B. (1/25/1838-10/25/1929)

            m. Thomas B. McCormick on 11/1/1863

            1. Edgar (8/14/1865-11/5/1933)

      L. Thomas M. (2/19/1841-7/9/1866)

      M. Katherine (9/4/1843-11/5/1930)

            m1. David Ginn on 12/16/1873

            1. Eva L. (12/15/1874-1970)

            2. Eda D. (b. 7/10/1878)

            3. Elda Robert (6/10/1881-4/20/1967)

            m2. Stephen Albert Bell on 11/3/1901

III. Mary Ann (1798-5/6/1884)

      m. Christian Gates (4/3/1788-10/11/1845) on 1/11/1817

      Both bur. Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church Cemetery, Foxville, MD

      res: Foxville, MD

      A. Roseannah (12/2/1818-222/5/1895)

            m. Charles A Schrader (1806-1882)

            res: Miami County, OH

            bur. Wheelock Cemetery, Troy, OH

            1. Jacob (8/4/1839-12/14/1867), bur. Tipp City, OH

            2. Mary Ann (1841-1928)

                  m. Philip A. Vance

            3. William A. (12/25/1845-5/4/1926), bur. Wheelock Cemetery, Troy, OH

                  res: Miami County, OH

                  mil: pvt. Co G 147th Ohio cavalry 1864, age 18

                  occ: farmer

                  m. Elizabeth Knife

                  a. John Wesley (b. 12/22/1873)

                  b. Frank E. (b. abt. 1876)

                  c. Susanna (7/21/1882-5/12/1925), m. Charles A. Burnside

                  d. Bessie May (11/26/1887-7/18/1911)

                  and 3 other unnamed children predeceased him in his obituary

            4. Martha (9/18/1851-10/3/1927), bur. Wheelock Cemetery, Troy, OH

                  m. Abraham Honeyman (1851-1915) in 1872

                  a. Rachel (1882-1970

                        m. Ernest Clifford Macy

                        1) Roy (1902-1992)

                  b. Charles Robert (1884-1965)

                        m.  Amy Mabel Turner (1882-1957)

                        1) Robert Bruce (1920-1987)

                              m. Hilma Henrie (1919-2018) on 1/11/1941, Maricopa, AZ

      B. Christian (9/26/1823-4/8/1900)

            m. Susannah Wiles (8/27/1831-3/2/1897)

            Both bur. Mt. Zion Mennonite Church Cemetery, Mapleville, MD

      C. William Hauver (1827-unknown)

            m. Matilda Brown (1826-1859) on 10/16/1851, Frederick County, MD

                  d/o William and Anna Elizabeth Buhrman Brown

            bur. Brown’s Cemetery, Foxville, MD

            1. Mary (d. infancy 1852)

            2. Hannah Elizabeth (8/24/1854-5/3/1907)

                  m. Edward Buhrman (10/8/1854-12/8/1926)

      D. Jacob (1/27/1831-10/21/1905)

            m. Elizabeth Brown (1834-1901) on 1/11/1856, Frederick County, MD

                  d/o William David and Mary Toms Brown

            bur. Riverside Cemetery, Troy, OH

            1. Mary E. (1856-1860)

            2. Martin L. (1858-1932)

            3. Anna Virginia (1859-1921)

            4. Sarah Ellen (1860-1926)

            5. Rosa Ann (1866-1880)

IV. John (12/10/1799-10/25/1821), bur. Brown’s Cemetery

V. George (3/10/1803 Foxville-6/20/1885)

      res: 1830 Brown homestead, Foxville; after 1835 he went to Seneca County, OH

      bur. Liberty Cemetery, Seneca County, OH

      occ: cooper, farmer, Justice of the Peace

      m. Julia Ann Scott (1803-1850) in April 1824 or 1825

      A. Catherine M. (1825-1865)

            m. William Harrison Null (2/28/1821-1908) in 1849;

He m2. Sarah Ann Hawver (d/o Daniel Hawver and Elizabeth Brown; Catherine’s cousin)

      B. David W. (1826-1912) Tiffin, Seneca County, OH

            m. Susanna Null (2/19/1832-6/22/1912), sister of William H. Null in 1852

            1. Thomas J.

            2. George Albert (1/4/1853-7/5/1935)

                  m. Luella Astry (1862-1925) in 1859

            3. Catherine

            4. William H.

            5. Susan E. (1859-2/23/1924)

                  m. Jacob Benedict Wagner (1854-1926)

                  a. Mary (1880-1884)

                  b. Henry E. (1880-1887)

                  c. George Benedict (1884-1935)

                  d. Marie D. (1891-1957), m. Thom

                  e. John David (1895-1973)

                  f. Louise Anna (1897-1989), m. Shultz

            6. John D.

            7. Elander (d. infancy)

            8. Alwilda (12/25/1863-5/16/1946)

                  m. Henry B. Puffenberger

                  a. Susannah (1902-1902)

                  b. James Brown (1903-1934)

            9. Jessie Belle (3/3/1868-7/23/1938)

                  m. John F. Smith (1861-1929) in 1883

                  a. Ethel L. (1885-1951)

                        m. Oliver Newton Forbush (1877-1946)

            10. Charles S.

      C. Christian (1830-3/30/1889)

            mil: Company A 64th Ohio Volunteer Infantry from 9/27/1863 to 6/6/1865

            m. Amanda M. Gray (1827-1905)

            1. Emily “Melissa” (1851-10/22/1922)

                  m. Henry B. Lewman

                  a. Benjamin C. (1872-1943)

            2. James. W. (1857-1858)

            3. John C. (1861-1939)

                  m. Weltha Jane Betts (1857-1936)

                  a. Violet Brown (1890-1969)

                        m. Otto F. Day (1892-1961)

      D. Sarah (1833-1924)

            m. Aaron C. Rhees

            1. Julia A. (1857-1883)

            2. Sarah Katherine (1858-1914)

            3. Lilie E. (1861-1929)

            4. Claragy B. (1864-1873)

            5. Charles E. (1866-1888)

            6. John (1869-1946)

            7. Beda (1872-1874)

            8. Daisy (1875-1958)

            9. Lola M. (1879-1962)

      E. Letha Ann (1838-5/28/1904)

            m. Jacob Ash

      F. Thomas (1842-2/3/1846)

      G. Wesley B. (8/2/1844-3/1/1912)

            mil: Pvt. 147th Ohio National Guard

            m. Catherine M. Astry in 1868

            1. Addie (d. 1898)

            2. Mrs. Clarence Beck

            3. Arlie Letony 12/28/1879-4/6/1961 from burns when clothing ignited from kitchen stove)

                  occ: farmer and stationary engineer at county hospital

                  m. Faye Rosemary DeGroff

                  a. Ione C.

                  b. Delma (1902-1966), m. Helen Bauer

VI. Susan (5/6/1804-12/31/1898)

      m. John Barnhiser on 8/14/1828 at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Hagerstown, MD

      res: Seneca County, OH about 1837; the children before William were born in Washington County, MD

      A. Mary A. (b. 6/12/1829)

      B. Sarah Ann (10/18/1833-12/11/1928)

            m. Henry C. Kime or Kimes

      C. Susannah (Susan) (3/2/1837-10/22/1887)

      D. George W. (6/12/1838-4/14/1854)

      E. Christie (1840-1928)

      F. William H. (11/4/1840-1/7/1927)

      G. Andrew John (1/1/1844-5/6/1871)

      H. Thomas Jefferson (7/22/1850-9/7/1916)

      I. Ellen (b. abt. 1851)

      J. Benjamin Franklin (Frank) (1854-1931)

VII. Anna Catherine (Kate) (5/5/1805-12/6/1875 Miami County OH)

      m. Daniel McAfee (2/24/1803-5/1/1856) on 6/7/1826 at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church,

            Hagerstown, MD

      res: Bethel Township, Miami County, OH around 1838

A. Julia Ann (1831-1904), m. Adam Black

B. David (1832-1913), m. Nancy E. Helvie

C. Daniel (1834), private in 80th Ohio Infantry, Co K, wounded 10/4/1862 Corinth, MS

D. George (1836-1911), single

E. William (1838-1906), single; occ: cooper; enlisted in September 1864 in 7th Ohio Cavalry, captured at

Stone Mountain, GA, October 1864

F. John (1841-1913)

VIII. Sarah Ann (9/12/1812-5/27/1864), Salt Lake City, UT

      m. William Martin (10/11/1811-8/29/1855) on 7/31/1836 in Tiffin, Seneca County, OH

m2. Jane Fehy on 3/15/1855 Endowment House Salt Lake City; after his death she married his brother

rel: Mormon

      res: Nauvoo, IL (1846), Pottawattamie County, IA (1850) and later Salt Lake City, UT

A. Luther (9-24-1839-1842)

B. William F. (4/22/1841-12/22/1841)

C. James A. (4/29/1843-1844)

D. Andrew Fleming (6/26/1845 Nauvoo, IL-6/28/1908 Park City, UT

E. Brigham Young (9/8/1847 Winter Quarters, Douglas, NB-3/24/1908 Salt Lake City, UT)

F. Heber K. (2/12/1850-1853)

G. Sarah E. (4/11/1852-1853 Council Bluffs, IA)

H. Zena Celestia (6/13/1854 Salt Lake City-7/22/1891; raised by brother after mother’s death

IX. William H. (3/18/1813-3/27/1886)

      m1. Catherine Brown (11/7/1813-6/1/1847)

            (d/o William and Anna Elizabeth [Buhrman] Brown); his first cousin

      A. Mary A. (1838-1838)

      B. Matilda J. (1839-1845)

      C. Josephine (1841-1944)

      D. Elizabeth

      m2. Sarah

      E. Sarah B. (1857-1885)

            res: Greencastle, PA

X. Christian (4/28/1815-7/2/1847 Liberty Township, Seneca Co, OH)

      bur. Louden Cemetery, Montpelier, OH

      m. Susannah Shaull (d. 1884) on 7/12/1840 in Seneca County, OH

      All three sons were born in Liberty Township, Seneca Co, OH

      A. John William (7/9/1841-4/13/1929, apoplexy, Ladora, IA)

            res: Honey Creek Township, IA in 1865

            occ: farmer

            m1. Eliza Jane Bell 6/20/1863

            1. Jane Ann (Jennie) (8/6/1865), m. Stephen Divine Hall

            2. Amanda Ellen (Mandy) (1/20/1869), m. John Moses Hall

            3. David Berton (3/9/1870)

            4. Mary O. (1/24/1875-1885)

            m2. Anna M. Ross on 1/17/1887

            5. Alpha Betha, d. age 21

            m3. Maryetta Harter Howard on 7/1/1899

            occ: farmer, Honey Creek Twp, IA

      B. D. Franklin (8/20/1842 Seneca Co, OH-1926 Montpelier, OH)

            m. Margaret Ellen Shaull on 10/20/1867

            occ: farmer

            1. Annie Jane (1867-1871), bur. Loudon Cemetery

            2. Sarah Alwilda (1870)

                  a. Zelma

                        m. Jesse Suffel

            3. William Henry (1879)                                                        

      C. George Washington (10/29/1845-9/23/1902), Montpelier, OH

            m. Sarah F. Hartsock on 12/8/1864

            Children were born in Liberty Township, Seneca Co, OH and buried in Riverside Cemetery, Montpelier, OH

            1. Anna Rebecca (4/22/1867-11/16/1922)

           2. Sarah Virginia (11/29/1872-6/13/1896)

           3. George Ohio (9/8/1876-7/25/1940)

                  occ: laborer for Wabash Railroad Company; farmer

                  m. Carrie Bell Simpson on 8/24/1899

                  a. Williard G. (1901-1902) twin; bur. Riverside Cemetery

                 b. Wilbur Joseph (9/18/1901-4/24/1969) twin; born in Williams County, OH; died in Toledo, OH;

bur. Floral Grove Cemetery, Pioneer, OH

                        occ: employee of Wabash Railroad Company; farmer

                        m. Wastella R. Swanger on 10/6/1923

                        1) Richard Gerald (6/8/1926-12/17/1985)

                              a) Richard, Jr. (9/12/1948-11/1/2008)

                              b) Terrence Lee (9/3/1950-9/19/2020)

                              c) Living Son

                              d) Living Daughter

                       2) Betty Joyce (1/7/1933-1996)

                              m. Benny Farrel Buie

                  c. Earl Leslie (5/16/1904-7/25/1979)

                 d. Martha Pauline (8/11/1907-1974)

                        m. Estel Lowell Patten on 3/29/1926

                        1) Kenneth Lowell (1/26/1927-3/28/2014)

                        2) Barbara Jean (11/23/1933-3/3/2006)

                              m. Douglas L. Buskirk