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

William Brown

William Brown was the eldest son of Thomas and Hannah. His birth date has been given as April 1, 1772. This does not allow for enough time for a viable pregnancy if the birth date of his sister Susanna is correct, but it is what has been listed over the years by many who have attempted to document this family. He would have been born while Thomas and Hannah were living in the Monocacy settlement before Thomas lost the lease for the tract of land. It is interesting that the first son was named William and that the second son was Thomas, Jr., and not the other way around. The speculation that Thomas Brown was the son of a William Brown in the research of Andree W. Wilson-Taylor who descended from a William Browne who arrived on the “Ark” in 1634 might hold some weight because often the eldest son was named for a parent.

In 1798 William Brown married Anna Elizabeth Buhrman, the daughter of Johannes and Katherine Ellen (Martin) Buhrman. They were probably married at Apples Reformed Lutheran Church in Thurmont (then Mechanicstown) because that is where Anna Elizabeth Buhrman was baptized in October of 1806 and also where all of their children were baptized. The children included William, Jr., b. 1800; Mary Ann (Polly), b. 1803; John, b. 1805; Ignatius, b. 1807; Elizabeth, b. 1810; Catherine, b. 1813; Hannah, b. 1816; Susannah, b. 1822; and Matilda, b. 1826.

William was a farmer and at various times also a merchant, tavern keeper, and postmaster. He was very much involved in buying and selling land on the mountain. On April 12, 1800, he paid Richard Winchester $300 for 65¼ acres of “Lemmons Vineyard,” “Worth Something,” and “Biggs Lot.” Several times over the next 15 years he and his brother Ignatius bought and sold parcels of these properties.

In 1826 he signed with his brothers and brothers-in-law a school subscription document to establish a new school on the mountain that would be closer than the one founded in 1821 in Harbaugh’s Valley.

By 1828 he moved to the Brown homestead next to the current site of Brown’s Cemetery. And on September 23, 1835, he conveyed the deed to this property to his nephew George Brown, son of his brother Thomas, Jr., because he was the trustee for his brother’s estate. Thomas, Jr., had migrated to Ohio by then. By deeding the property to his nephew it was kept in the family.

According to A History of the Smithsburg Charge, by Ferdinand Hesse, William Brown, Sr., was instrumental in helping to establish a church for the growing community. From this book (p 81), it was stated that “at a meeting of those interested in a church in the vicinity of Foxville, Frederick County, Maryland, in the year 1829, they ‘Resolved and agreed that subscriptions should be taken for the building of an Evangelical Lutheran and German Reformed Church,’ and the committee included: George P. Fox, William Brown, Sr., Jacob Wyant, Builders. Christian Hauver, Daniel Hauver, Thos. Brown, George Long and Philip Fox, Collectors were George Long, Treasurer; Philip Fox, Secretary.” A general subscription was put forth, and 357 names appear on the subscription list with a total of $751.98 raised for the building. The cornerstone was laid June 1, 1830. The first Church Council was elected in June 1831. “Those elected were: Elders---William Brown, Sr. and George P. Fox. Deacons---Thos. Brown, Abraham Poorman, Christian Gatze [Gates] and Philip Fox. George P. Fox was appointed Secretary and William Brown, Sr., Treasurer” (pp 83-85). For many years both William Brown, Sr., and William Brown, Jr., and their brothers and nephews and cousins and sons-in law served in this church, which was named, “Mt. Moriah,” and was “built of stone and stands as an emblem of faithfulness and devotion of God’s people, many of whom sleep the sleep of death near by the church” (p. 89).

By 1840 William is listed in the U.S. Census in District No. 10 of Frederick County as William Brown, Sr., head of household, age 68, with a family that included one male aged 10 to 15, one male aged 20 to 30, one male, 60 to 70, one female aged 10 to 15, two females 20 to 30, and one female 60 to 70 (Anna would have been 62). William Brown, Jr. is listed below him.

In 1850 he is still in District No. 10 listed as William Brown, Sr., 77, a farmer with $1600 worth of real estate. On the list is his wife Elizabeth and family members Elizabeth, 29; Hannah, 27; Matilda, 22; Josephine, 9, and Elizabeth, 6. The names tally for his daughters although the ages do not, and Josephine and Elizabeth match the two youngest children of his daughter Catherine, who married her first cousin William H. Brown, the son of Thomas and Susannah Rebecca (Harman) Brown, and who had died in 1841. Thus, it looks like they were helping to raise two granddaughters.

William, Jr., married an Elizabeth, listed as Elizabeth Brown in the marriage records, in 1833 in Queen Anne’s County. They had seven children. At some time after 1851 they went to Miami County, Ohio.

The eldest daughter, Mary Ann, married Christian Hauver in 1823. He helped build and was a deacon of Mt. Moriah Church. They had seven children. Peter Hauver married Susanna Maria Fox and his sister Elizabeth Hauver married George Hiram Fox, both children of George Philip Fox, the son of the George Fox who patented “Foxes Range” and who is considered the founder of Foxville. Another Hauver son, John Christian, migrated to Shelby County, Ohio. Other Hauvers were farmers and orchardists.

John Brown, the third child, was a trapper and trader. He married Jennie Delawter. They had 12 children and lived in a log cabin that adjoined the Mt. Moriah Church property. Their youngest child, Josephine, died in her cradle when the cabin burned down in 1858. This was also the year that both John and Jennie died of typhoid fever, which was rampant in the area in the 1850s and 1860s.

The fourth child, Ignatius was a merchant in Cavetown, Maryland, and married Susan Smith and had four children, one of whom, Lewis, ran Brown’s grocery for many years on Mt. Zion Road, near Smithsburg, Maryland. Elizabeth, the fifth child, lived to age 71 and never married. Catherine, the sixth child, as mentioned previously, married her first cousin and had four children. Hannah, the seventh child, remained single, living to 72. Susannah, the next child, died just short of her second birthday. Matilda, the last child of the line, married William Goetz (anglicized to Gates) in 1851 and resided in a two-story log home on Catoctin Hollow Road, just southeast of the Brown homestead. They lost a 14-day-old infant but a second daughter survived.

William Brown died September 13, 1854, and Anna Elizabeth (Buhrman) Brown died February 2, 1861. Both are buried in Brown’s Cemetery along with many members, including very young ones, of this family.

**Headstone for Anna Elizabeth Buhrman Brown**

SOURCES:

History of the Smithsburg Charge: Composed of Trinity, Smithsburg, MD., Mt. Moriah, Foxville, MD., and St. Paul’s, Greensburg, MD., by Rev. Ferdinand Hesse, A.M., Pastor, 1912.

Descendants of William Brown

William

b. 4/1/1772

d. 9/13/1854; bur. Brown Cemetery, Foxville, MD

m. Anna Elizabeth Buhrman (9/28/1778-2/18/1861; bap. 10/13/1806 Apples Reformed Church, Thurmont, MD

(d/o Johannes and Katherine Ellen [Martin] Buhrman in 1798)

occ: merchant, tavern keeper, farmer, postmaster

rel: 1831, elder and treasurer of Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church, Foxville, MD

Children:

I. William (8/29/1800-11/5/1879)

bap. 11/16/1800 Apples Reformed Church, Thurmont, MD

m. Elizabeth Brown (2/19/1811-12/21/1866, Troy, OH) on 11/25/1833 in Queen Anne’s County, MD

res: went to Miami County, OH

mil: War of 1812 in Captain Charles Hilliard’s Company from 2/22/1813 to 8/21/1813

(from Ohio, Soldiers Grave Registration Cards)

A. Elizabeth (b. 1833, Hauvers District, Frederick County)

B. Martin Luther (9/15/1836-4/30/1918)

res: Miami County, OH

C. Ignatius Franklin (Frank) (1838, Hauvers District-9/29/1922)

res: Darke County, OH

D. Anna Mary (b. 1843, Hauvers)

E. Rebecca Matilda (b. 1841, Hauvers District)

F. William Cornelius (Neal) (1848, Hauvers District, MD-1909, Miami Co, OH)

G. Thomas (5/5/1851, Hauvers, MD-5/3/1943, Tipp City, OH)

II. Mary Ann (Anna Mary) “Polly” (1/3/1803-2/16/1883)

bap. 4/14/1803 Apples Reformed Church, Thurmont, MD

m. Christian Hauver (11/10/1801-6/17/1869) on 3/11/1823

Helped build and in 1833, 1838, and 1842 was deacon of Mt. Moriah Lutheran church

Both bur. Mt. Moriah Lutheran Cemetery

A. Peter (10/30/1823-8/26/1907)

m1. Susan M. (Susannah Mariah) Fox (6/13/1828-4/14/1876)

(d/o George Phillip and Sophia [Bussard] Fox)

(mother of children)

m2. Joanna Buhrman (12/2/1836-3/21/1906) on 5/12/1878

occ: farmer in Hauver’s District

1. Ellen K. (7/22/1853, aged 1y, 11m, 22d), bur. Mt. Moriah Lutheran Cemetery

2. Albert Luther (12/11/1853-3/29/1950)

m. Minnie E. Williar (9/19/1853-9/9/1921)

occ: teacher, farmer, lumber dealer, director of Thurmont Savings Bank

pol: served a term as Democratic member of Maryland House of Delegates from Frederick County

rel: Sunday School superintendent and on church council of Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church

a. Ira Herman (1881-1972)

b. Sadie C. (1884-1885)

c. Grace E. (7/9/1889-7/16/1922, killed in train/car accident)

occ: organist Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church

d. Pinckney Albert (4/10/1891-10/9/1968, Madison, WI)

e. Stanley Elwood (1900-11/20/1976)

occ: owned Valley Hardware store; served as mayor of Smithsburg, MD

3. George P., livestock dealer in California (b. abt. 1858)

4. Fannie, d. childhood, possible twin of Marietta Mary (b. 1860; d. bef. 1870)

5. Marietta Mary (b. abt. 1860)

m. Alfred Pryor

Both bur. Mt. Moriah Lutheran Cemetery

6. Clara S. (b. 1862)

m. Charles Bachtell, res. Youngstown, Ohio

7. Sarah A. (b. 1864)

m. Norman McKay

res: Colorado

8. Annie Maria (8/30/1866-1/11/1959)

m. William K. Williard (4/6/1860-4/10/1952)

Both bur. Mt. Moriah Cemetery

a. George Allen (10/25/1884-1974)

m. Cora Mae Harne (1887-1959)

1) Harold Ralph (1910-1991)

2) Herbert Eugene (1911-1977)

3) Roy Milton (1913-1979)

4) Mabel (1918-2005)

5) George Arthur (1927-1999)

b. Ora “Orey” Richardson (1887-1975)

m. Bertha Rae Toms (1890-1981)

1) Mildred Viola (1913-2018)

2) Ruth Louise (5/17/1914-9/14/2007)

m. Lee Gideon Harne

a) Donald L. (5/1/1931-1/12/2023)

b) Helen Ruth (1933-), m. ____ Dagenart

c) John William (1936-2020)

d) Eugene Ray (1938-2017)

(four other living children)

3) Catherine Anita (1916-2011)

4) Bernice Eva (1921-2018)

5) Evelyn Mae (1922-2012)

6) Mary P. (1925-2015)

7) John Richard (1927-2017)

8) Robert Lee (1930-2020)

9) Charles Ora (1935-2007)

10) Child

c. Clarence Noel (12/25/1889-7/6/1937)

d. Amy Susan (3/6/1892-2/26/1997)

m. Ira Thaddeus Warrenfeltz (1893-1975)

1) Marguerite Susan (1917-1998)

2) Ruth Evelyn (1919-2007)

3) John Kenneth (1923-2009)

4) Alice Etta (1926-1926)

5) Esther Amy (1927-1992)

e. Alice Etta (2/14/1895-2/8/1993)

f. Glenn Killian (3/22/1897-12/19/1991)

occ: dairy farmer

m. Mabel Mae Brown (2/18/1903-12/27/1995)

1) Helen Mae (7/26/1919-10/9/1972)

m. Theodore Favorite “Ted” Buhrman (1919-1983)

2) Ethel Margaret (8/26/1921-7/9/2015)

m. Edgar Eugene “Barney” Barnhart (1922-2009) on 6/25/1948

3) Glenn K. Jr. (4/14/1923-12/4/1991)

occ: owner of Willard’s Turkey Farm

m. Martha Bina Smith (10/29/1922-2/1/2018)

4) Russell Grover (3/7/1925-3/16/2013)

m. Anna May Pryor (1928-2019)

5) Grace Marie (8/27/1927-12/16/2020)

occ: registered nurse

rel: attended Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church

m. David Hafer Andrews (4/14/1928-11/25/2013)

occ: ordained minister of Evangelical United Brethren Church

6) Chester Melancthon (10/16/1930-12/27/2014)

occ: employee of Western Maryland RR and Victor Cullen Center

m. Eileen Mary Draper (12/17/1932-6/16/2016) on 6/22/1951

g. Anna Mary (7/2/1899-2/12/1982)

m. John William Hooper (1896-1959)

h. Clifford Donald (5/27/1902-5/7/1998)

m. Pearl Victoria Brown (2/7/1905-3/31/1976)

1) Clifford William (1923-1989)

2) Pauline Elizabeth “Polly” (11/28/1926-9/23/2007)

m. Frank M. Eccard

3) Calvin (6/11/1929-2/22/1995)

m. Delores Jane Gift

4) Ruth Irene (1932-2016)

5) Harry Eugene (1922-2011)

6) Harold R. (10/15/1938-1/12/2018)

m. Joann E. Martin

7) Richard

8) Jesse

i. Raymond Addison Sr. (9/5/1905-1/2/1968)

m. Vera Reba Pryor (1907-1987)

1) Rayetta (1927-4/24/2024), m. Martin Luther (Luke) Brown (ggs/o John Nathan Brown;

ggggs/o Ignatius Brown)

2) Anna Mae (9/1/1930-1/12/2012), m. William Leatherman

3) Raymond Addison Jr. (1931-2004)

4) Theophilus (2/2/1941-1/8/2023)

(six more living children)

9. Emma

m. William Sprague

res. Oregon

B. Elizabeth (10/2/1825-11/30/1905, aged 80y, 1m, 28d)

m. George Hiram Fox (d. 5/26/1879, aged 56y, 3m, 26d)

bur. Mt. Moriah Lutheran Cemetery

1. Mary Ann Sophia (1840-1924)

2. George Lewis Alonzo (1845-1914)

3. Anna Maria (1847-1929)

4. Margaret Elizabeth (1851-1939)

5. James Buchanan (1856-1938)

6. Charles Addison (1858-1862)

7. William Luther (1860-1937)

8. Effie May (1865-1947)

9. Flora (1868-1963)

C. Hannah (3/31/1828-4/8/1850)

m. Joseph Stottlemyer

bur. Mt. Moriah Lutheran Cemetery

D. William (10/23/1830-6/7/1889)

occ: farmer

m. Lydia Margaret Stottlemyer (8/5/1834-7/30/1905)

Both buried with many of this family in Christ Reformed Church Cemetery, Wolfsville, MD

1. Thaddeus Lycurgus (4/26/1856-5/1/1898)

m. Charlotte C. Routzahn (1861-1950)

occ: schoolteacher

a. Calvert Clyde (9/28/1884-8/5/1934)

m. Mae Susan Morgan (1885-1977) in 1908

occ: railroad fireman

1) Charlotte C. (10/4/1912-11/13/2003), bur. Rest Haven Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

m. Lee R. Mullendore

2) Grace Naomi (9/10/1914-5/18/1978)

m. William A. Myers

3) Charles Calvert (2/28/1916-1/15/1977), bur. Rest Haven Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

rel: Otterbein United Methodist Church

occ: employee of Fairchild Industries

mil: U.S. Army, WW II

m. Ruby Drum Heller

4) Roger C. (1918-1986), bur. Mt. Zion United Methodist Cemetery, Myersville, MD

5) Rebecca Irene (8/7/1920-9/20/2001), bur. Greenlawn Cemetery, Williamsport, MD

m. John Leslie Crawford (1950-2007)

b. William Eugene (3/2/1886-6/5/1960)

m. Effie Catharine Deter

1) Catharine (3/12/1912-7/7/2012)

ed: Hood College

occ: teacher at Middletown High School; postmistress of Myersville Post Office during WWII

m. Bruce Foster Ahalt (d. 1975)

2) William Eugene (11/26/1913-1/13/1984)

mil: U.S. Navy in Pacific theater WWII

m. Nona Eloise Dahn (1915-2006) in 1940

3) Roland T. (3/24/1918-3/26/1945 Germany)

mil: 2nd Lt. U.S. Army Air Corps, killed in action when plane was shot down in WWII

c. Mary E (1/19/1890-1/3/1976)

m. Welty Caleb Harshman (1884-1945) in 1911

1) Daniel Clarence (6/29/1913-7/9/1996), bur. St. John’s Lutheran Church Cemetery, Ellerton, MD

m. Pauline Elizabeth Stone (1917-2003)

a) Sylvia Ann (1939-2020)

2) Margaret C. (1/15/1917-7/22/1992)

m. Roy E. Grossnickle (1917-1996)

3) Ross Eugene (1/31/1921-11/21/2004)

m. Hilda Elizabeth Snoots (1919-2017)

d. Charles Thaddeus (9/23/1892-3/5/1962)

m. Aileen Fahrney (1897-1991)

e. Emma C. (1897-1900)

2. Ida T. (5/23/1858-12/14/1920)

m. Wilson Lee Pryor (1854-1930)

a. William Samuel (1897-1958)

m. Nellie Margaret Wilhide

3. Johanna May (3/22/1862-12/1/1934)

m. James Oliver Bussard (1851-1930)

4. Orpha Victoria (1867-9/6/1951)

m. Ira Ellsworth Pryor

a. Edna H. (1891-1952)

b. Stanley Ross (2/22/1893-8/2/1945, heart attack)

c. Lydia Mae (4/16/1897-3/28/1934)

m. Thomas C. Byers

occ: registered nurse

d. Dorothy Margaret (4/29/1899-9/27/1979)

m. Frank E. Dowling (1895-1974)

e. Anna B. (10/26/1906-11/21/1992, bur. Arlington National Cemetery)

m. Edwin G. Dechant (1905-1989) in 1935

5. Daughter (1873-1873)

6. Roy Varner (9/17/1874 1/18/1937)

m. Margaret Ellen Remsberg (9/16/1877-11/21964)

Both bur. Christ Reformed Cemetery, Middletown, MD

occ: physician

a. Richard Varner (10/31/1901-6/26/1997)

m. Thelma Gertrude Baker (10/21/1909-7/20/2000)

occ: physician

1) Carol Ann (1936-11/24/2021)

occ: mathematician for General Electric Company; helped with moon landing

m1. Norman Henry Winde, Jr. in 1958

2) Living Daughter

b. Arthur LeRoy (1910-1966)

c. Margaret L. (4/13/1910-10/26/1989), Christ Reformed Cemetery

d. Colman R. (7/16/1913-11/6/1973

E. John Christian (9/4/1833-5/31/1911)

occ: farmer, Frederick Co, moved to Kirkwood, Shelby County, OH

m1. Sarah E. Wachtel on 3/10/1859

1. Clarence E. (1859-1906)

occ: physician

m. Mary K. Pottenger

2. Mary E.

3. Myron Ellsworth. (1863-1905)

m. Laura Belle Hetzer

4. Emma L. (1866-1890), single, Kirkwood, Shelby County, OH

5. John Newton (12/16/1869-4/3/1930), Shelby County, OH

m. Maude Leona Bailey

6. Grant C.

m2. Cornelia Ann Pryor (widow of Hamilton L. Harbaugh)

F. Melancthon (3/25/1841-3/19/1924)

occ: fruit grower, Adamstown; deacon of Mt. Moriah Church

m. Rebecca Buhrman (4/10/1842-1/12/1924)

Both buried Mt. Moriah Cemetery

1. Bertha L. (1864-1864), twin

2. Ermine T. (1864-1864), twin

3. Ellen A.

4. Ella V. (1865-1882)

5. Chester Melanchton (1867-1920)

m. Effie V Eccard (d/o Allen and Amanda [Schroyer] Eccard)

6. Clara E. (1874-1880)

G. Ephraim Dallas (8/5/1844-7/4/1923)

m. Martha Ellen Gordon (3/4/1849-1/4/1903)

(d/o John Adam and Margaret [McClain] Gordon), his 2nd cousin

occ: farmer

Both bur. Mt. Moriah Lutheran Cemetery

1. Charles Christian (1867-10/27/1956), bur. Blue Ridge Cemetery, Thurmont, MD

m. May E. Durben (1873-1967)

a. Charles Lloyd (1898-1936)

b. Raymond Christina (1904-1979)

c. Robert Russell (1914-2007)

2. Virginia Florence (Jennie) (8/2/1868-10/25/1959)

m. Daniel Edward Bachtell

a. Infant Daughter (1894-1894)

b. Infant Daughter (1896-1896)

c. Mary (1899-1988), m. Victor C. Guillermain

d. Eva (1904-1987), m. William Beard Kimble

e. Infant Son (1909-1909)

3. Ammie C. (1871-1940)

m. Walter L. Stottlemyer

a. Anna Mae (1895-1945), m. Clyde Morrison

b. Alma Grace (1896-1918)

c. Ivan C. (1/1/1900-3/9/1965)

m. Virgie Susan Kline (1907-1982)

1) Charles Walter (1925-1978)

2) Evelyn Elizabeth (1926-2000), m. Asa Daniel Harshman

3) Doris Elaine (1927-2013), m. Donzal Meredith Lovell

4) Alma Darlene (1930-2013), m. John Albert Routzahn Sr.

5) Pauline Mae (1937-2011), m. Samuel Earl Rohrer

d. Calvert Cecil (1902-1964)

e. Dorothea C. (6/26/1903-6/27/1978)

m. Paul W. Warrenfeltz (1895-1970)

1) Joseph Paul (1923-1993)

2) Irma M. (1928-2001), m. Elvin Theodore Wolfe

a) Michael Lee (1956-2011)

3) Wayne W. Warrenfeltz (1929-2007), m. Peggy Ann Fishack

4) Robert L. (1/28/1931-6/18/1990)

5) Delano R. (1934-1997), m. Nancy Louise Kline

6) Lee Floyd (1937-1956)

7) Gene Ora (1941-2021), m. Joanne Kline

8) Alan David (5/13/1947-3/1/2024)

f. Margaret E. (1909-1909)

g. Helen L. (1911-1918)

4. Alvin William (1875-1949)

occ: potato farmer Foxville, MD

m. Anna Lillie Grace Fox (1872-1947)

a. Clara Grace (6/8/1899-1969)

m. Russell Cleveland McCleaf in 1921

b. Rae Irene (2/11/1901-2/10/1998)

m. Samuel Ray Brandenburg (10/1/1901-2/29/1976)

1) Gene (deceased)

2) Arthur (deceased)

3) Betty Grace (9/13/1922-2/16/2023), bur. Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, MD

m. Knowlton Burgee

4) Ray Samuel (10/10/1923-6/11/2010)

m. Margaret Mae Swope (12/21/1924-1/15/2014) on 6/20/1922

(d/o Charles E. and Mary E. Williard Swope)

occ: farmer and employee of Mack Trucks, Hagerstown, MD

Both bur. Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church

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

5) Harold (Bill) Sr. (1928-10/30/2024)

mil: US Navy Air Corps (1946-1948)

occ: salesman for Noland Co., Hagerstown, MD

m. Elizabeth Ann (4/4/1930-6/21/2016)

6) Carolyn Yvonne (10/25/1929-4/3/2022)

occ : secretary for Fairchild Industries, Hagerstown, MD

rel : Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church

m. Robert Lee Fishack

c. Lillie May (7/29/1904-8/7/1906), bur. Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church Cemetery

d. George William (6/5/1907-9/30/1970), twin

m. Evelyn N. Ridenour

e. Olive Ruth (6/5/1907-5/15/1962), twin

m. Charles Barrick

5. Mae T. (10/22/1884-10/10/1956)

m. John Wesley Cline

a. Gladys E. (1910-1986)

b. Woodrow Hauver (1912-1986)

c. Kenneth J. (1915-1960)

d. Harold L. (1921-2000)

6. Walter C. (3/8/1886-5/15/1886)

III. John (7/3-5/1805-9/10/1858)

m. Mary Ann Jane (Jennie) Delawter (Delauter) 3/11/1817-8/11/1858) on 5/31/1838

(d/o George Washington & Elizabeth Bussard Delawter)

occ: trader

Both died of typhoid fever

res: log house on land adjoining first Lutheran church at Foxville

A. Susan Phoebe Ann (7/14/1839-2/3/1903)

m. Washington Johnston on 1/1/1861

moved to Texas

B. Keturah (2/17/1841-5/16/1845), bur. Brown’s Cemetery

C. Ruhannah (11/28/1842-12/27/1848), bur. Brown’s Cemetery

D. Talmon Ignatius (b. 11/18/1844)

m. Annie Dickie on 11/4/1869

E. Malinda (2/17/1844-5/16/1845)

F. Calvin J. (b. 1845)

G. Mary Ellen (1/15/1847-1910)

m. John Aaron Johnston, brother of Washington Johnston

res: Harbaugh’s Valley, Franklin County, PA

1. Kathryn Pauline (1872-1955)

2. Maude Belle (1874-1960)

m. Harry Kremer Layman

occ: teacher

a. Margaret Pauline (1897-1967)

m. Joseph Snively Maun

b. Herbert Johnston (1899-1989)

m. Grace Grossnickle Toms

c. Richard Kremer (1914-1991)

m. Annie Bell Moats

d. Robert Eugene Layman (1916-1920)

3. Infant son

4. Flora Maye (1877-1958)

m. Vernon El Wolfinger

5. Bertha (1879-1963)

6. Stanley (b. 1882)

7. Louise (1886-1964)

8. Mary Susan (1889-1980)

9. John Robert (1891-1963)

10. Charles Leon (1894-1963)

H. Charles William Junius (8/2/1849-8/25/1876)

I. Erias Washington (6/25/1851-9/10/1927)

m. Anna Kyler (1861-1910)

settled in Wabash County, IN, in 1880s

1. Grace (d. 1880)

2. Charles (1879-1879)

3. Nancy Ellen (1881-1963)

m. Daniel Clay Urschel

4. Jonny J (1883-1883)

5. Blanche (1884-1986)

m. Grover C. Orr

6. Kyler (8/5/1886-7/28/1970)

m. Lussie Kendall

7. Icel M. (9/11/1888 Kansas-1/15/1994)

m. Freeman Pinney

8. Dwight L. (1895-1960)

m. Lois Wright

9. Olivia (1898-1980)

J. Annie Elizabeth (11/12/1853-10/30/1862, typhoid fever), bur. Brown’s Cemetery

K. Hannah Sophia (2/10/1856-1932)

m. James Madison Benchoff

res: Rouzerville, PA

bur. Harbaugh Reformed Church Cemetery

1. Walter

m. Viola Stanton Krebs

2. Blanche P. (d. young)

3. Maude B.

m. Elder Martin

4. James Thompson

m. Marie Hicky

5. Omar Ellsworth

m. Edith Belle Flohr

L. Josephine Catherine (4/23/1858-8/25/1858), died in cradle in house fire

bur. Brown’s Cemetery

IV. Ignatius (12/23/1807-12/25/1897)

m. Susan B. Smith (4/5/1823-3/31/1910) (d/o Damiel and Margaret [Harrow] Smith)

Both bur. Brown’s Cemetery

occ: merchant in Cavetown, MD, in 1870 with $4000 real estate

A. Eliza L. (2/15/1846-9/24/1858), bur. Brown’s Cemetery

B. Adaline (1848-1848), bur. Brown’s Cemetery

C. Lewis A. (10/29/1856-12/21/1945)

m1. Emma Clarissa Smith (2/11/1865-2/3/1957) in 1890 in Washington County, MD

m2. Sarah Jane Miller

occ: ran the Euclid or Brown’s grocery store in Mt. Zion, MD

a. Maude P. (1891-7/24/1934)

2. Louis Harrison (11/6/1892-3/11/1970)

m. Edna M. Devenney in 1923

mil: served with American Expeditionary Force in France in WWI

res: Mt. Zion

a. Charles H.

b. David F.

c. Louis E.

d. Leatrice J. (Lea)

m. William S. Shoemaker

e. Mrs. Gordon Walker

f. Miss Marlin J.

3. Albert Reed (1894-8/29/1978)

mil: WWI veteran

4. Hady (b. 1896)

m. S. A. Macis, res: Puerto Cortes, Honduras; Los Angeles, CA

5. Neoma M. (b. 8/23/1897)

6. Emma Jane (12/11/1898-3/26/1963)

m. Elmer Robert Wetzel

7. Sigsbee G. (b. 8/23/1899)

8. Robley Evans 9/27/1901-11/1/1997)

m. Margarete Frieda Ilsen (b. Berlin, became naturalized citizen)

mil: US Navy WWII

res: Norfolk, VA, and Monterey, Blue Ridge Summit, PA

9. Nada M. (10/13/1903-1/14/2002)

m. George Omer Smith

D. Alice Margaret (1860-1925)

m. Charles Henry Harbaugh

V. Elizabeth (12/20/1810-2/18/1881) single, bur. Brown’s Cemetery

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

bap. 6/12/1814 Apples Reformed Church, Thurmont, MD

m. William H. Brown (3/18/1813-3/27/1886), her 1st cousin

(s/o Thomas and Susannah Rebecca [Harmon] Brown)

Both bur. Cedar Hill Cemetery, Greencastle, PA

A. Mary A. (1/11/1838-8/14/1838)

B. Matilda J. (6/14/1839-5/25/1845)

C. Josephine (7/29/1842-1/30/1944)

D. Elizabeth (b. 1844)

VII. Hannah (10-2-1816-2/19/1888)

bap. 3/26/1817 Apples Reformed Church, Thurmont, MD

single, bur. Mt. Moriah Lutheran Cemetery

VIII. Susannah (1822-10/2/1824, aged 1y, 11m, 11d, bur. Brown’s Cemetery

IX. Matilda (2/1/1826-8/26/1859), bur. Brown’s Cemetery

m. William Goetz (anglicized to Gates) on 10/16/1851

res: two-story log home on Catoctin Hollow Road, SE of Brown homestead

A. Mary (d. 4/29/1852, aged 14 d), bur. Brown’s Cemetery

B. Hannah Elizabeth (8/24/1854-5/3/1907, obit)

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