The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-06-19

and this without thought of remuner-
alton. She would mount one of her
horses frequently within FIVE minutes
after hearing Of case of Illness and
go through snow and storm to minis
ter to the afflicted. She was by ma
ture and training deeply religious.
She believed in the Bible. and. all
though she was obliged to osdepend
upon the reading Of Others for her.
knowledge of its teachings. it is safe
to say that she knew more :of it than
many who read for themselves. In.
her early life she was baptized into
the Dunkard church, but in her adj
vanced age. after leaving the old
home place, she affiliated with the
Methodists. Her rfavorite spiritual adj
wiser inner latter years, was that good
man, known to all Of the older citi-
zens, Rev. Eli Engle. Peace to his
ashes. She stayed on the old home
stead until the youngest Of herchil-
dfen had grown 10 mature age, and
ltt,ssassss !. il. ~sl 81 g M / tsvIiie. wherf
she died in March, 1858, at the aye OF
seventy-tive years, Mrs. Brown was
an excellent type of that womanhood
which has done more to mould the
civilization of the Ans lo-StXon race
than all other forces combined.
AS before mentioned, the family of
the Browns was somewhat numerous.
There were eleven sons and daugh-
ters, of whom ten lived to be men
and women. The eldest was daugh-
ter, born December, 1901. She mar
ried Jacob Yeast and became the
mother of a large family, all girls but
one. Her daughters all married well
known citizens of Garrett county.
The only son-Samuel-wen into
the civil war and was killed at the
battle of Perryville, Kentucky. Mrs.
Yeast died in 1851.
A son born to the Browns in 1903,
died in infancy. Lydia. born in 1905,
was married to Mr.. Reuben Kemp.
She was left a widow early in life and
always remained in that condition.
She seemed to have inherited the
frail constitution of her father, being
an invalid nearly all her life, and yet
she lived to be eighty years of age.
She had several sons and daughters,
most of whom are living in Allegany
county. Samuel Brown. Jr., was
born in 1907. He died of cholera at
the age of twenty-six.
Perhaps the most widely.known
member of the family was Henry.
He was born in 1919, and he came to
his death by an accident with ma
chinery in 1869. He was married to
Harriet Sheets in 1887, He was
carpenter by trade, many of the
buildings in Garrett county being of
his handiWork, He was also in the
mercantile business for several years,
and afterwards engaged in manufac-
turing. He represented his county
IN the State Legislature three or four
terms, where he made a good record,
not so much for display or oratory as
for sound Judgment and diligent at
tentiOn to business. OF his three sons
Joseph died in early manhood of
consumption, George died at the age
of thirty, after having served with
distinction in the civil war, and
Charles is business man of Wash
ington City. His elder daughter
married Mr.. George Charles, of Alle-
gany county. and the younger one
still lives with her widowed mother
in Grantsville.
Elijah, two years the junior of
Henry, is still living at Shipman, H.
linois, aged seventy-five years. He
kept hotel for many years at Grants
vile and afterwards at Frostburg.
His four sons are all in the West, two
of them were soldiers in the civil
war, His two daughters married Mr..
John Shultz, prominent business
man of st. Louis; and Mr.. John
Kitchens, formerly a merchant of
GrantsvilIe, afterwards of FrOstburg.
A third daughter, born in 1914, lived
to be only twenty years of age.
The fifth son of the family was
Hanson, who was well-knOwn
farmer and lumberman of Garrett
county. He came to his death some
four years ago under circumstances
peculiarly distressing. He married
Elizabeth, daughter of Mr.. John
Blocher. Their numerous family all
remain near their native place.
Elizabeth Brown. born in 1918. be-
came the wife of David Compton, a
former welI-kaown citizen of AIlega.