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Note for: Hannah Milligan, 1782 - 1863
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Individual Note: Came from Scotland to Virginia in 1800
Hannah Milligan was over 80 when she died in 1863. Her son Hugh named his oldest daughter Hannah Milligan after his mother and Christine Zimmer has written that the three of Hannah's descendents have inherited Milligan as a middle name: Ada's daughter Annetta Milligan Baird, Blanche's daughter Orella Milligan Robe, and Hugh's daughter Christine Milligan Laughlin.
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Note for: William Wilson Brown, 29 JAN 1815 - 23 SEP 1880
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Individual Note: Three weeks after my father was born his mother died and William Wilson Brown to cope with a family of eight children. In 1869 he moved to the Dunlap, Illinois area to live near his sister Cynthia and her husband Will Hervey. The oldest daughter Austie, had married in 1866 and remained in Ohio County West Virginia. William and Clinton, the oldest son farmed on the rented land and Flora who was nearly 20 looked after the younger children. This arrangement fell apart when Clinton married Della Fritts and Flora married Henry Fritts. In 1873, at the age of nine, Frank went to live with his aunt Cynthia and Uncle Will. William Wilson Brown became ill in 1880 and Frank who was 16 went to stay with him until his death in September of that year. Dad worked for various farmers until he was 21. He then went to Ivanhoe, Kansas where he proved up on a pre-emption claim of Government land. He returned to Dunlap after three years to work again for his Uncle Will. While there he met Sarah O'Ella Laughlin. She encouraged him to get an education and he decided to go to college and study for the ministry. While attending Ohio Northern University at Ada he married Sarah O'ella who died eleven months later. In 1897 he married my mother Hannah Frazier. Dad served at Presbyterian churches in Rural communities. He was devoted to training of young people and in each community would organize orchestras and choral groups. He retired soon after his wife's death in 1828. With Kenneth and is sister Flora he visited his sister Lillian and her husband Charles Elyea in South Dakota. Kenneth reported that relatives came from miles around.
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On this trip they also visited with the families of Flora sons, James, Edgar and Henry. They also visited Harold Timbers, a Grandson of Flora. Returning east he moved to Huntington, but in 1933 he went west again hoping to visit Texas. Enroute he had a stroke at the home of James Fritts in Topeka. He remained in Topeka until his death in 1935. Frank Brown's oldest son George died in February 1983 after a career as a science teacher in southern West Virginia. Earl taught college geography and also worked in Washington at Procuring foreign published maps for the U.S. mapping agencies. Kenneth headed a large photo division of a Topeka firm that publishes yearbooks for colleges and high schools. Daughter Elda died in 1968.
Individual Notes
Note for: Joseph Ferrell, BET 1737 AND 1760 - BET 1776 AND 1870
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Event: Type: Fact 1
Place: Name taken from another person
Event: Type: Fact 2
Place: Real Last Name Unknown
Individual Note: Joseph Ferrel was stolen by the Indians in upper state NY (east of the allegannies) when a small child. Later he escaped from the indians at about age 14 and took up a piece of ground near Clinton Ohio where he met a man named Ferrel. They became life long friends and he took the last name Ferrel in that his own last name was unknown.
The father of Moses Ferrel may or may not have been of Scotish descent, but he certainly was a pioneer. Dad wrote: Joseph "Ferrel was stolen from his home somewhere east of the Alleghenies when a child. When he became a man he left the Indians and came to Ohio Country, West Virginia. He did not remember his father's name or where he was from. He settled in Ohio County when there was still much danger from the Indians. When he built his first fire he was startled to see smoke rising on the opposite hill, and fearing Indians he put his fire out. Soon the other fire went out also and it was several days later that peering around a tree he saw the face of his neighbor, a man named Turril. These two, Ferrel and Turril were the first white settlers near Clinton in Ohio County, West Virginia."
Ferrel History - Joseph Ferrel was stolen by the Indians when a child some where east of the Alleganies. Later, getting free from the Indians he came to Ohio W. Va. He took up a piece of ground near Clinton, Ohio and when clearing brush saw another smoke coming from across the valley and supposing it to be Indians put his own fire out. The other smoke went out and two white men were hiding from each other. Then John Ferrel and Joe Ferrel looked at each other around two big trees and were life long friends.