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Note for: Flora Amelia Brown, 29 SEP 1851 - 1933 Index

Individual Note:
[From "The Decendants of William Fritz", "The Decendants of William Brown" and spoken accounts of my Father Raymond Oren Fritts Sr)
Flora Brown was born Sep 29, 1851. My father, Raymond Oren Fritts Sr, told me of his mother traveling from New York to Peoria Illinois by covered wagon (1869). My Grandfather, Henry Oren Fritts Sr and his sister traveled with Flora's father, William Wilson Brown, and the Brown family on this trip. Flora was the one who prepared the family meals for this trip. The "Decendants of William Brown" records that William's wife, Jane Ferrel died 3 weeks after their last child, Frank F. Brown was born (1864) and Flora at 13 years of age had to assume the mothering of the William Brown children. By agreement with her father she continued this arrangement until she married my grandfather on her 20th birthday Sep 29, 1871. The younger William Fritts children were then dispersed to live with aunts and uncles. She moved from Peoria Illinois with my grandfather Henry Fritts to a farm near Dunlap, Illinois. The Henry & Flora Fritts family remained in Dunlap for the births of their first 8 children (1873 to 1879) then they moved across the Missouri river to the Nebraska's and settled on a farm between Cook and Sterling Nebraska. My father and his younger sister Bertha were born on this farm and grew up there with their 8 older bothers and sisters. Flora and her husband Henry moved to the Lincoln Nebraska area after the children had all left home and Henry could no longer farm (I believe 1900-1910 time frame). Flora lived out her years in Lincoln close to her son Henry Jr. and died in 1936. I remember my dad telling of a visitor Henry & Flora had in the 1890's when dad was a young boy. The visitor was General Lew Wallace, Author of BEN HUR, the first cousin of Flora's mother Jane Ferrel. Lew Wallace gave each member of the family autographed copies of this book. Dad believes his copy was lost at the time of his mother's death when they disposed of an old trunk at the family home in Lincoln.

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Note for: Anne Powers, 23 AUG 1875 - 16 MAR 1951 Index

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Anne raised most of the Powers children after her mother's death. She never married

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Note for: Moses Ferrell, ABT 1802 - Index

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[Brøderbund Family Archive #314, Ed. 1, Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1820, Date of Import: Jun 20, 1997, Internal Ref. #1.314.1.1913.5]

Individual: Ferrel, Moes
County/State: Ohio Co., VA
Page #: 017
Year: 1820

The following additional information is provided about the record source: (NOW WV)

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Note for: William Brown, BET 1768 AND 1800 - BET 1826 AND 1883 Index

Event:
     Type:   Fact 1
     Place:   Assistant Surgeon of the flying camp 9/19/1776

Event:
     Type:   Fact 3
     Place:   There ar two William Brown's Living in Bradford

Event:
     Type:   Fact 4
     Place:   County Penn in 1830. One in Wysock and one in

Event:
     Type:   Fact 5
     Place:   Warren. I believe one of these is this William

Event:
     Type:   Fact 6
     Place:   This is less than 100 miles from Lansingville

Individual Note:
     Written by Frank F. Brown (Grandson of William Brown)
As A boy I spent my summers on the farm of my mother's parents. I knew many of my Frazier relatives but very few of my Brown relatives. However my father, Rev. Frank Brown compiled a family record that is fairly complete back to his great grandfather Josiah Brown, listing hundreds of Josiah's descendents, many of whom dad knew personally. However the purpose of this paper is to put in graphic form the listing of the descendents of my father's grandparents, William Brown and Hannah Milligan.
Introduction
The Family Record of the Brown Family included information on the Frazier family of Mrs. Frank Brown, on Frank's mother's family and on the migration of the Scottish-Irish Browns to western Pennsylvania and Ohio County in West Virginia. The record of our Branch is clear to Josiah Brown. The record is not clear on whether Josiah was married to Hannah Michel or Mary Hervey.

William Brown and Hannah Milligan had eight Children, most of whom had large families. Dad knew personally about 100 of the individuals in these families. Of them he wrote:
    " When I think over the names of the tribes of Brown I have this to say, that they are mainly of the Presbyterian body of religious faith, and most of them I ever met was a sober earnest religious type. Quite a number were ministers of the gospel and several missionaries. They had also a goodly number of school teachers and music teachers. Nearly all were musically inclined and I never met one who could not sing. I have not found a solitary one of the Brown family who was guilty of any great offence against the law. They were law abiding, though sometimes has suits over property. The tendency was to avoid them, and settle their affairs out of court."
I know practically none of the Browns except those that are directly descended from my father and mother. I would like to get to know more of the members of the Brown family. From what dad wrote they seem like pretty nice people.