Martin Browne of Leeds, VA, IN

Updated 22 November 2005

An important new link to the Hardy-Culp Cemetery exists at::
www.cemeteries-madison-co-in.com/Hardyculp.Cemetery.htm

I have begun spending time searching the U.S. census returns and am gaining valuable information. Most important, I have found the birth record of Julyana Browne in Bethnal Green, London, 6 January 1783 and christening on 12 February 1783. Corroborative evidence for this birth is in the 1860 Madison County, Indiana, Census "July" Hardy born England (widow of Sam Hardy which we know is the case) age 67. So the AD is wrong in this instance, and it explains
1. how a civilian with wife and child could come to the colonies in 1780 with the war still on
2. Narrows the time we cannot account for MB's whereabouts from 1780 to 1787 to ca 1784-5 to 1787.
I am now looking for families of daughters of Martin Browne, Elizabeth Muse, Ann___, Mary (Polly) Custer, Amelia Tucker. I have Amelia's family. I am also looking for families of Martin Browne, Jr's daughters: Mary Ann Howard, Susanna Nicholson, Harriet Veach, Emily Johnson, Elizabeth Templin, Louisa Roach.

Howard Browne
Williamsburg

MARTIN BROWNE (III) b Leeds 3 Sep 1749 d. Madison Co, IN, 28 Jun 1834, m. Mary__
children:
Julyana, b.Bethnal Green, London, 6 January 1783, d Madison Co. IN 28 Aug 1854
m. Capt. Samuel Hardy

Abel, 6 Oct 1786, VA, m Polly Frazier
Elizabeth, 12 Apr 1788, VA, m Robert Muse
Ann, 28 Jun 1791, VA,
Martin, 13 Jan 1794, VA, m. Susanna McAllister
Friend 4 Mar 1796
Mary (Polly), 29 Aug 1798, m John Custer
Amelia (Emily), 21 Sep 1800, m William Tucker
Alfred, 21 Oct 1805
Thomas Stribling, 9 Dec. 1807, m Nancy__

TIME LINE:
1749 born Leeds 3 Sep
1770 clerk to Robert Green, Leeds for 3 years
1778 25 Nov, dissolved partnership with Richard Green, haberdasher in the Haymarket, London
1780 10 Jan, states he came to America with consort Mary & eldest daughter Julyana
1787 First evidence of owning an ordinary, or tavern, outside Winchester, Va.
1809 Appears in Mason Co. (W) Va. tax roll
1810 Appears in Mason Co. US census
1820 Appears in Mason Co. census
1830 1 Jan advertises "180 acres of miitary land on the Kanawha River" (at Red House) for sale.
1830 Appears in Madison Co. In. census
1834 28 Jun, dies in Madison Co., In.

Martin Browne's papers covering the period 1770-1830 are in the Southern Collection at the University of North Carolina #4973, http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss

MARTIN BROWNE (IV or Jr.), b. 13 Jan 1794, Frederick Co., Va, m SUSANNAH McALLISTER .1815, d.1856

children:
Mary Ann, m. John Howard
Lorenzo Dow, b 1822, Mason Co. Va. d >1880, Iroquois Co. Ill., m Nancy Harlan
Harriet, m Joshua Veach
Emily, b 1829, m 1. Martin Johnson, 2. William Lemon
Elizabeth, b 1831, m. __Templin
Martin,
Louisa, m Lanty Roach
Garrett W., b 19 Jun 1839, d. 19 Sep 1886, m 1. __DeMott, 2. Catherine L. Grove

TIME LINE
1794 born in Frederick Co., Va.
1812 enlisted for 6 months in the 2nd Regt. of Virginia Militia; ht 6 feet, dark complexion
1815 married Susannah McAllister in Mason Co, (W) Va.
1829 moved to Adams Twp, Madison Co, In.
1850 applied for & received 80 acres of bounty land for service in War of 1812
1855 applied for additional land
1856 died in Madison Co., In.
1866 Susannah McAllister Browne d 21 Jan & buried in Maplewood Cem, Anderson, In.

LORENZO DOW BROWNE, 3 Mar 1822, Mason Co (W) Va., d 4 Mar 1887, Watseka, Ill.
L.D. Browne's namesake was Lorenzo Dow, a charismatic frontier evangelist of the time. I have come across many others born in that era with the name.
children:
William S. b 3/24/44 IN, m Kizzie Frame, d. 8/19/1911
John H. b. 1/9/1846 d 2/10/1846
Sarah J. b 1/1/47, m Iven Baily
George N. b 1/2/49, m Ethelinda L. Ford, d 11/15/1918
Robert W., b 5/2/51, m Jane Gillfillan, d ?/9/1920
Lorenzo Demetrius, m. Irene G. McCurtain
Susan Ann b 3/3/56, m. Dr William Gable, d. 1/5/1918
Nancy (Maud) b. 3/23/58, m __Williams
Garrett B. b 3/7/60, m Minnie Girard
Owen E. b 3/14/62, m Lizzie A. Banard
Della H. b 8/27/64, never married
(all b in Anderson, In.)

TIME LINE:
1822 3 Mar, born in Mason Co. Va.
1829 emigrated with his parents to Madison Co, In.
1843 21 May, married Nancy Harlan in Hancock Co., In.
1852 Stephen Harlan, Nancy's father, gave an old mill in Brown Twp., Hancock Co, In to the couple, who renovated and lived in it. L.D. Browne worked as a miller with his f-in-law.
1855 L.D and Harlan operated a steam sawmill near the Harlan grist mill in Brown Twp.
1887 4 Mar.d in Watseka, Iroquois Co, Ill.
1895 23 August, Nancy Harlan Browne d. in Watseka, Ill.

ROBERT WASDON BROWNE, b 3 May 1851, Anderson, In, d 16 Sep 1920, Kay Co, Okla.
He m. 25 Mar 1881 JANE (Jennie) GILLFILLAN in Chillicothe, Ross Co, Oh.
children:
Roxy b 3/6/1883, d 3/7/1883
Edna b 4/29/84, d 7/22/70, m Carl Benson 6/7/03
Howard Storm b 10/15/86, d 1/27/45, m Margaret May Melvin, Guthrie, Okla, 6/28/12
Ada ,b 10/1/88, d 7/20/52, m J. Morgan Bush, 8/31/10
Henry V. b.1/21/91, d 10/27/25, m Gertrude Waggoner 8/31/10
Ralph b 11/6/93, KIA 9/17/18 (90th US Div.), m Alice Wilkins, 4/25/16

TIME LINE
1851 3 May, born Anderson, In.
1881 25 Mar, m Jane Gillfillan in Ross Co., Oh.
1904 Sept, moved to Guthrie, Logan Co, Ok. Sisters Maude Williams and Della already lived there
1905 Moved to a 160 acre farm in Round Grove Twp, Kay Co, Ok., west of Ponca City. This was 9 years after the "Last Run" into the Cherokee Strip.
1920 20 Jan, received Masonic degrees in Guthrie, Ok. "Ht 6'0" eyes blue hair grey"

1912--15 earned PhC and MS degrees. Attended U of Okla Medical School while teaching in the School of Pharmacy. Jane Elizabeth born 1913.
1915-17 finished at Rush (later U. of Illinois) Medical School with MD degree. Post graduate work at Cook County Hospital (Chicago). Barbara born 1915. Became Asst. Dean of the School of Pharmacy at O.U.
1918-19 More work at Cook County. Became Dean of the School of Pharmacy at OU, After a year resigned to enter practice of Medicine (EENT). Chose Ponca City, Okla. because near relatives and thriving oil & farming community with wide drawing area.
1925 built house at 131 Elmwood
1935 moved to 140 Elmwood
1936 moved to 220 Virginia
1936 first of three heart attacks that disabled him from practice
1944 moved to 746 No. 5th St.
1945, 27 Jan. died
1972 9 February, Margaret May Melvin Browne died.
Children:

Jane Elizabeth b 30 Aug 1913, Norman, Ok.,d 6 Sep 1997, Houston, Tex, m 1. 1935 Carl Wayne Stevens,
2. 1973, Dr. Claude Northcutt
Barbara b Chicago, Il, 13 Oct 1915, d ca 1991, Carmichael, Cal, m 1. 1935 Roy A. Watts, 2. J.C. Pierce
Howard Storm, Jr., b 1 July 1925, Ponca City, Ok.m. 26 Nov 1949, Doris Mae Cox