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1928 Reunion Transcription: Newspaper Article
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1929 Reunion Transcription: Newspaper Article
This article was published in The Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio), 9 August 1929 [1]l
The fifth annual reunion of the Browning family was held Sunday afternoon at Moxahala park. Dr. W. O. Thompson gave an interesting talk on the merging of different branches into one great family. Illustrating his talk through the adaption of a river.
Mrs. Sarah Browning Crookard, of Bellaire, the president of the organization was in charge of the program and letters were read by the secretary, Mrs. Annie Heiner Cambridge, from Mrs. Mary Browning Bloomdale James Wylte Washington, D.C.; Samuel H. W. Browning of Clarksburg.
New members present at the fifth reunion include George Purdum of Warren, Dr. and Mrs. U. C. Purdum and son, and Mrs, John Miller, of Cambridge, Miss Blanche Browning of Cleveland, and Mrs, Charles Hoffman, of Mansfield.
The president read an interesting paper concerning the genealogy of ancestors of the present. The paper follows. It is a pleasure to have the honor of greeting the member of the Browning Family association and to extend all a hearty welcome.
The gatherings have given us pleasure in the happy association brought about through becoming acquainted with those who are related to us by ties of blood nd marriage, but were unknown to many of us previous to the information of the association in 1925 at the suggestion of Mrs. Effie B. Price of McConnelsville.
At the first meeting only a little knowledge of ancestors was had, but after five years of research and study, many interesting and valuable genealogical facts are in hand. We are able to produce records by which five at least of our numbers have been admitted to the Daughters of the American Revoluation and several others have papers ready to be sent to the national society at Washington, D.C.
I wish to acknowledge my debt of gratitude and obligation to all those who so kindly and graciously assisted in research by giving their family records to copy and make use of and by so doing greatly encouraged me to go on in the work. I had voluntarily undertaken. I feel more than nrepaid for all efforts to find out who our ancestors were.
In a letter this week from Samuel H. W. Browning, of Clarksburg, Md. I was informed that Warner F. Poole of Damascus, Md., is still living, aged 88 years. His father and mother with their young son Warner, were members of the large Browning party which came to Ohio in 1842 in covered wagons from Montgomery county, Md. Mrs. Poole was unable to stand the journey and the Pooles returned to Maryland. Mrs. Poole was the daughter of William Beall and a sister to our ancestor, Mrs. Ann Beall Browning, wife of John Baker Browning who were members of the Browning Party. The party include members of the Browning Beall and Shipley families and they settled in and around Morgan county, O.
William Beall married Elizabeth Walker, Dec. 19, 1798, and she was a daughter of George Walker, who was a Revolutionary soldier and was in the battle of Germantown and one other battle George Walker was the son of Francis and Catherine Walker and his wife was Ann Gray and they were married Dec. 7, 1780. He was born in 1759 and died as the result of being bitten by a mad dog June 26, 1826, two months after being bitten.
Of the Shipleys who were in the Browning party in 1842, we have several descendants with us today Mrs. Annie Heiner, our secretary, and her sister, Mrs. Agnes Moss, of Cambridge, are descendants of both Leavan Shipley and Rebecca Shipley Browning, his sister. On the Shipley side, we trace our ancestors from Rebecca Shipley who was the daughter of William Shipley, who was the son of Adam Shipley and his wife Lois. The court records shows that March 30, 1691. Adam Shipley surveyed 200 acres of land on the Severn River in Anna Arundel county, Md., and died before 1742. So you see we can trace our ancestors to the 16th century. I am planning to attend the Shipley family reunion in Baltimore in September at which more than 1000 members other each year.
We also have with us several descendants of Jonathan Browning, are, son of Edward Browning, the first They are descended from Rachel Browning, daughter of Jonathan Browning, jr. and her husband Joshua Purdum. Elizabeth Browning married James Purdum. Nancy Browning married Walter Purdum and Samuel H. W. Browning, who with his family came from Maryland to attend our reunion last year, married Rose Purdum. In a letter received from Samuel Browning, I learn that Mrs. Martha Purdum, 87, a descendant of Rachel Browning and Joshua Purdum, died in July 1939. It was my good fortune to meet her twice in Maryland and to her I am indebted for much information regarding the Purdue as she had a wonderful memory for names and dates.
As I have told you in former years of Edward Browning, I will not repeat that part of our genealogy but will be pleased to answer any questions regarding his son Jonathan, Jeremiah and Nathan.
While in Maryland at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Browning, I was shown the spot where Jonathan and his wife Elizabeth are buried. In the cemetery at Steubenville are the graves of Jeremiah and his wife and I have not yet located the graves of Nathan and his wife Verlinda.
1842 The Large Browning Party
In 1842 a "large Browning party" came from Maryland to Ohio. According to the narrative above:
- they came in covered wagons from Montgomery County, Maryland.
- John Baker Browning and his wife Mrs. Ann Beall Browning were members of the party
- Warner F. Poole's father and mother were included. Mrs. Poole was unable to stand the journey and the Pooles returned to Maryland.
- The party included members of the Shipley family. Mrs. Annie Heiner and Mrs. Agnes Moss were descendents of shipley members of the party, Leaven Shipley and his sister Rebecca Shipley Browning.
- They settled around Morgan County, Ohio
Directories
Annotated Alphabetized Directory of Persons Named, with Links
- William Beall. William Simpson Beall (1776-1851) married Elizabeth Walker, daughter of Francis and Catherine.
- Ann (Beall) Browning
- Blanche Browning
- Edward Browning
- Elizabeth Browning
- Nancy Browning
- Nathan Browning (married Verlinda). (1752-1804)
- Jeremiah Browning (Buried Steubenville)
- John Baker Browning (1807-1882) came to Ohio in the 1842 group.
- Jonathan Browning (1750-1834).
- Mary Browning
- Rachel Browning (1775-1847)
- Rebecca (Shipley) Browning
- Samuel H. W. Browning
- Annie Helner (Shipley Descendant)
- Sarah Browning Crockard
- Ann Gray (1760-1826)
- Charles Hoffman
- John Miller
- Agnes Moss (Shipley Descendant)
- Warner F. Poole (1842-1933). Warner F. Poole was the son of Greenbury Poole and Mary Ann Beall. She in turn was the daughter of William Simpson Beall and Elizabeth Ellen Walker. Warner Poole's family came with the 1842 covered wagon trip to Morgan County, Ohio, but his mother was unable to stand the trip and they returned to Maryland.
- Effie B. Price
- George Purdum
- James Purdum
- Joshua Purdum (1767-1832)
- Martha Purdum
- Rose Purdum
- U. C. Purdum
- Walter Purdum
- Leaven Shipley
- William Shipley
- Adam Shipley (1650-1696)
- Lois Shipley Lois (Unknown) Shipley (1658-1698)
- W. O. Thompson
- Catherine Walker
- Elizabeth Walker Elizabeth Ellen Walker (1780-1860)
- Francis Walker
- George Walker (1758-1826)
- James Wyte
Annotated Alphabetized Directory of Places Named in Article
- Beliaire
- Bloomdale
- Cambridge
- Clarksburg
- Cleveland
- Damascus
- Mansfield
- McConnelsville
- Moxahala Park, where the 1939 Browning Reunion was held, was opened in 1906 by the Southeset Ohio Railway and Light Company. Seven miles south of Zanesville, the park contained a lake for boating and swimming, as well as a Japanese-style bridge and garden, a dance hall, baseball field,
merry-go-round and a variety of amusement park rides. Attendance started to decline in the Depression. Several attempts were made to revivie it, but it eventually closed and eventually few traces of it remain.
- Warren
- Washington DC
Recommended Reference to place on profiles
XXX is mentioned in a 1929 Zanesville Ohio article about a Browning Family Reunion in Moxahala Park near Zanesville, Ohio, that year.
Sources
- ↑ Presented in Find A Grave: Memorial #46810447 Memorial for William Simpson Beall. Accessed 10 January 2024 jhd
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