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From: HERMON B FAGLEY <>
Subject: [OHADAMS] Re: [BROWN-L]Underground RRer.
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 12:21:18 -0500


Clark Bratton was Rev Isaac Holmes Brown's grandson,and spent his
life on a farm at RT 125 and Poplar Creek a 1\2 mile west of Rev Isaac
Holmes Brown.[i h brown's 2nd farm home still exsists-Boyd's.
Anyway, Clark's dead,and his son,George is dead, but 3 generations of
Bratton's lived together in that farm house. Ralph Bratton, and bro;
Beulah
Bratton Hensley and sister lived n that house with Clark till they were
in thei
teens, and may have heard stories. Amelia Oh for Ralph and Beulah-might
be
Cincinnati p.o.address.
"clermont and Clermonters" has an afadavit of Dr WM Eberle Thomson,saying
he
was an undergrounder. Tradition says his father's house on S Main in
Bethel
had a secret room. 's 93 year old mother lived with
Dr WM E THOMPSON. 's mother-in-law lived in the house just

west in brich's memory.
James Bunting was active. His bro-in-law's stepdau m REV GERRARD P RILEY,
2 RILEY OBITS FOLLOW.
I GOT A BOOK FOR CHRISTMAS MENTIONING THE HUGGINS.WM D AND MILTON H
HUGGINS lived 3-5 miles ne MT ORAB,OH at Sicily,IN VERY,VERY SW HIGHLAND
CO OH [1800-05,IN CLERMONT CO,OH]
sAMUEL RIDINGS of the northern part of their Clay twnsp was active north
of Buford,of
>From what Hilda Musgrove Johnson Blakeney told me, the school house on
Ohio RT 133 BETWEEN BETHEL AND WILLIAMSBURG wAS A HIDING SPOT- jAMES
BUNTING'S SMALL HOME WAS 1-2 MILES WEST. HILDA SAID THE NEXT STOP WAS THE
CHURCH JUST WEST OF THE DAM OF GRANT LAKE- SHILOH? RT 774,JUST WEST OF US
RT 68. - A COUPLE MILES SW OF MT ORAB,OH.
tO ME,THE NEXT STOP WOULD HAVE BEEN HUGGINS.
THIS HISTORY OF CLAY TOWNSHIP,HIGHLAND CO,OH SAYS THE HUGGINS HAD A
CABIN,ON THEIR DAD'S FARM ,TO HIDE SLAVES.
tHERE WAS A MOVABLE HEARTH THAT COULD BE MOVED,OPENING A HIDING PLACE
BENEATH.On Sat, 25 Dec 1999 14:30:09 -0500 "CheryLee Wilson"
<> writes:
>Herman,
>
>I suspect you may have encountered one or more of these BROWNS in
>your
>research, particularly the CLERMONT OH family.
>
>I have undertaken a national grant project to find the descendent
>families
>of underground railroad participants. Of the 21 states indicated to
>have
>been involved in the activity, I am beginning in OHIO, and hope to
>have
>gathered enough information in time for the Ohio Bicentennial in 2003.
> My
>primary sources disclose the following BROWNS in OHIO.
>
>I already have some stories collected around !900 regarding the UGRR
>activities of each but the focus of this research project is
>family-held
>reminiscences.
>
>Can you or other BROWN-related families on this list provide useful
>information about the following BROWNS?
>
>CheryLee Wilson
>
>UNDERGROUND RAILROAD OPERATORS, STATIONKEEPERS AND CONDUCTORS [BROWNS
>of
>OHIO]
>
>ASHTABULA CO OH
>BROWN, Alex
>BROWN, James
>
>ATHENS CO OH
>BROWN, Eli F.
>BROWN, John
>BROWN, Leonard
>
>BROWN CO OH
>BROWN, Isaac H.
>
>CLERMONT CO OH
>BROWN, Isaac H.
>
>ERIE CO OH
>BROWN, Bazel (African-American)
>BROWN, Isaac
>
>GUERNSEY CO OH
>BROWN, Thomas
>
>HANCOCK CO OH
>BROWN, Ezra
>
>MUSKINGUM CO OH
>BROWN FAMILY
>
>PREBLE CO OH
>BROWN, Rev. James R.
>BROWN, Nathan Jr.
>
>SUMMIT CO OH
>BROWN, Jason
>BROWN, John
>
>TRUMBULL CO OH
>BROWN, Colonel
>BROWN, Ephraim
>
>VINTON CO OH
>BROWN, Henry
>
>WESTERN RESERVE
>BROWN, Owen
>----- Original Message -----
>From: HERMON B FAGLEY <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 6:17 PM
>Subject: [BROWN-L] BROWN,Rezin,Valentine,Oscar
>
>
>> I was talking to a friend J.A.Brown,whose ggrandma was Kizzie
>Fagley,
>> about his Clermont Co,Oh Brown's from Lawrence
>> Co ,Oh. He said he went to the PROCTERVILLE-ROME-CHESAPEAKE
>,Lawrence Co
>> mid s Ohio River area to see the tombstone of his Reson Brown, b
>[what?]
>> 1827 or 37.
>> Resin had a son,Oscar Thompson Brown,who was a noted
>Bethel,Clermont
>> Co,Oh apple grower,d 1945 era. O.T.Brown worked across in
>Huntington,WV
>> rowing the Ohio River,and
>> must have followed the river,to marry,at the 2nd Rome,Oh Adams
>Co,Oh
>> Michael Thornton's dau. She was from Sunshine Ridge towards Blue
>Creek.
>> [By huge chance my friend's farm adjoins that once owned by Wallace
>Clark
>> Fagley's widow,Fanny,of Rev Isaac Holmes Brown-mom a Md Debruler].
>> Wallace was supt of the
>> Hanging Rock,and then died, 1890's as supt of Ironton,Oh schools. ]
>> Anyway I knew Rezin=resin=reson a Md 1st name. A search of
>Colonial Md
>> wills for RESIN turned up Col Resin Hammond,and research on him
>showed
>> his estate west of Annapolis,Md adjoined the "Brown's Forrest" and
>he
>> willed part of "Brown's Addition.
>> And a later generation will contest shows intermarriage between the
>> families as in-
>> CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
>> 1816/06/12
>> 347A: Richard Mackubin vs. John H. Brown, Juliana
>> Brown, Mathias Hammond, Eliza Hammond, William
>> Rezin Brown, Clarise Brown, and Philip Brown. AA
>> Estate Basil Brown - Providence, Prospect Plains.
>> Recorded (Chancery Record) 101, p. 613.
>> Accession No: 17,898-347A-1/2. MSA S512-399 1/35/5/
>>
>> CHANCERY
>> I've about worn out my copy of Warfield's ' Founders of Anne
>> ARUNDAL and Howard Counties,Maryland 'over the years.
>> Warfield concentrated on several Browne families,and I find him
>> nearly impossible to understand without a good map of those
>> 2 counties,and adjoining. Anyway, where he talks of Resin Hammond,
>> p 167,he talks of Valentine [s] Brown's. I'm just giving a source
>for
>> Valentine 'Felty" Brown researchers.
>> I think myself of George and Mary Stevenson Brown[e].
>> However,in our family was an Ohio River steamboat man,in -law
>> of Capt James Campbell Powers.-Charles Carroll Brown, b 1847.
>> He was noted for cleaning up Portsmouth Ohio about 1900.
>> I would be lax not reporting the following from Warfield,"
>> 'Col Edward Gaither,JR,who witnessed Charles Carroll's will"
>> himself willed to Col Rezin Hammond,friend, horse,sword,and
>> ring.
>> So any Valentine researchers out there,like those researching in
>the
>> Filson Club,keep your eyes open for several RESIN BROWN. mORE THAN
>> 1 RESIN HAMMOND; MORE THAN 1 Valentine Brown.
>> I would not be shocked if my own Westminster,Md BROWN'S had roots
>also
>> on Severn Bay,Annapolis,
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