James Brownlow - Katherine 'Kate' Brownlow from County of Antrim,North Ireland
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James Brownlow - Katherine 'Kate' Brownlow from County of Antrim,North Ireland
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1. JAMES1 BROWNLOW was born Abt. 1730 in County of Antrim,North Ireland, and died 1789 in Augusta County,Virginia. He married KATHERINE 'KATE' BROWNLOW. She was born in County of Antrim,North Ireland, and died in Augusta County,Virginia.
Notes for JAMES BROWNLOW:
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James BROWNLOW Birth: Abt 1695 in Ballywoolly Co Armagh Ireland
Marriage 1 UNKNOWN
Elizabeth BROWNLOW b: 1724 in Ireland
William BROWNLOW b: 1727 in Ireland
Jane BROWNLOW b: 1733 in Ireland
John BROWNLOW b: 1737 in Ireland
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Possible parents
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Notable Southern Families
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BROWNLOW FAMILY
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All the people of the name BROWNLOW in the United States are descended from James and Kate BROWNLOW, who emigrated to the United States about 1745, from the County of Antrim, North Ireland. They were both school teachers and members of the Presbyterian Church.
James taught the boys and his wife the girls.
James was a classical scholar and taught Latin and Greek. He taught at Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia, and among his pupils there was the boy Sam Houston, the Hero of San Jacinto, Governor of Tennessee, President of Texas and United States Senator from that State after annexation and in 1861 Governor of Texas and the only Governor of the eleven seceded States who opposed the secession of his State.
After teaching several years at Lexington, the Brownlows removed to Abingdon,Southwestern Virginia, where they followed the same occupation of school-teaching and here one of James Brownlow's pupils was the afterward famous orator and Senator, William C. Preston, of South Carolina.
Both of these distinguished men ever retained a grateful recollection of their faithful teacher, two of whose sons, Alexander and Isaac, fought under General Jackson at the battle of the Horseshoe, the most important of the many battles
Jackson fought with the Indians, and which led to his command at the battle of New Orleans.
Two other? of them, Samuel and William, died Naval Officers. Of the latter Commodore Charles Stewart, "Old Ironsides," under whom he served as a Lieutenant, said:
"He was one of the bravest men I have ever known."
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James and Kate BROWNLOW had seven children, six sons and a daughter, namely:
(1) Alexander BROWNLOW.
(2) Isaac BROWNLOW.
(3) Samuel L. Brownlow.
(4) William L. Brownlow.
(5) John BROWNLOW.
(6) Margaret BROWNLOW..
(7) Joseph A. Brownlow.
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(1) Alexander BROWNLOW is honorably mentioned in the history of the War of 1812-15 as a Lieutenant in the regular Army in command of Fort Bowyer on the Mississippi. He so distinguished himself in defending this Fort from an attack by the British that he was promoted to Captain and, like his brothers, William and Samuel of the Navy, he was retained for gallant and meritorious service after the war ended, when the regular Military and Naval Service was reduced by Congress.
He died in the service and his remains are in the Cemetery at New Orleans. Among the descendants of Captain Alexander BROWNLOW is the wife of Honorable Andneus A. Jones, United State Senator from New Mexico. Senator Jones is a native of West Tennessee.
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(2) Isaac BROWNLOW, great-grand-father of Honorable Louis BROWNLOW, one of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, was an inferior officer under General Jackson and bore his dispatches from the Creek War to Huntsville, swimming the Tennessee River on horseback.
His numerous descendants in 1861 enlisted in the Confederate Army.....
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Among the descendants of Isaac BROWNLOW are Honorable Louis BROWNLOW, one of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and the late John F. Brownlow, Mayor, and a leading citizen of Columbia, Tennessee. Poetry is not associated with warlike qualities, but if the poems written and published in the newspapers of the period by Lieutenant William L. Brownlow and Isaac BROWNLOW, Captain of Scouts, under Jackson, were collected they would make a small volume.......
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(3) Samuel L. Brownlow, was a wagon master under General Jackson, and was in the battle of the Horseshoe.
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(4) William L. Brownlow, who served as a Lieutenant under Commodore Charles Stewart died a Captain in the Navy and his remains repose in the Navy Yard at Norfolk, Virginia.
(5) John BROWNLOW was an inferior officer in the Navy and died at sea.
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(6) The only daughter, Margaret, married a Scotchman, John McClelland.
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A son of theirs, Isaac BROWNLOW McClelland was for about thirty years Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court at Som- erville, West Tennessee, and an elder in the Presbyterian Church. A grandson, Lawrence Sparks, was for many years Pastor of a Presbyterian Church at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. All the descendants of John McClelland and Margaret BROWNLOW were Presbyterians in religion and were Confederates in the War Between the States.
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(7) Joseph A.- Brownlow married Catherine Gannaway.
His first military service was as a private in the War of 1812.
Later he was given a Lieutenant's commission.
His son, William Ganaway BROWNLOW, is the most distinguished of the name.
He was born in Wythe County,Virginia, August 29,1805.
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After ten years as a traveling minister (Circuit Rider) of the Methodist Episcopal Church from 1826 to 1836 he located, that is ceased to be in charge of a congregation, and entered Journalistic work.
He became editor and publisher of a newspaper in the interest of the Whig party.
For years before the Civil War his Newspaper had the largest circulation of any Journal south of the Ohio or Potomac Rivers unless George D. Prentice's Louisville Journal be excepted. People took it for its editorials as it was without Associated Press Dispatches.
That after the War Between the States he became Governor of Tennessee and United States Senator is well known; but the incidents of his early life, which contributed to the production of so remarkable a character, and subsequent incidents of his career are not so well known.
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Brownlow believed in blood and was himself the offspring of that sturdy race from the North of Ireland which has given to our country three-fourths of its Presidents and its leading statesmen, editors, merchants and soldiers—the race of Jackson, Monroe, Harrison Polk, Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan, John C. Calhoun, the Prestons, Blairs, Breckinridges, Moreheads, Stewarts, Porters, Greeleys and many others who might be named, prominent in all the walks of American life.
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His mother's maiden name was Catherine Gannaway, daughter of William Gannaway and his wife, Elizabeth Wright, who were natives of Augusta County,Virginia, and large slave-owners.
They were a family distinguished for moral worth, good sense and Christian piety.
The father of William Gannaway BROWNLOW was a Presbyterian.
He died when his son was ten years of age. His mother was a Methodist and he joined her church.
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A nephew of the late Governor BROWNLOW was the Honorable Walter Preston BROWNLOW, who died in 1910 while a Member of Congress in the fourteenth year of his service. Walter Preston BROWNLOW at the time of his death had had appropriated for his District more money than had previously been appropriated for the whole state of Tennessee.
This included more than two millions for the National Soldiers Home at Johnson City, public buildings at Bristol, Johnson City and Greeneville, a Fish Hatchery, the only one in Tennessee, in Unicoi County, and he had the burial place of Andrew Johnson made a National Cemetery. When he secured an appropriation of $35,000 for this purpose Congress had only made appropriation to mark or beautify the burial grounds of three Presidents.
It is in the military Service of the country that the Brownlows have been especially zealous.
Joseph A. Brownlow was third Lieutenant in the Fourth Regiment, Tennessee Militia, in the War of 1812.
James Patton BROWNLOW, youngest son of Governor William G. Brownlow, was Colonel of the first Tennessee Cavalry Volunteers, U. S. Army, in the Civil War.
After having been shot through both legs and four horses shot under him he was promoted to Brigadier General when only twenty-three years of age.
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As to the service of General James P. Brownlow, I quote the following letter addressed to Andrew Johnson, Military Governor, by the distinguished soldier who died as Commander-in-chief of the United States Army:
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Nashville, Tennessee
May 21,1863.
Governor:
"Having been informed that Lieutenant Colonel BROWNLOW of the First East Tennessee Cavalry is spoken of for Colonel of one of the new regiments to be raised in your state, I desire to recommend him as eminently qualified and deserving. I have rarely seen a cavalry officer who excited my admiration in so high a degree. He is energetic, daring and skillful. Success with him and his gallant command is the invariable rule. "I am, Governor,
"Very respectfully your obedient servant,
"J. M. SCHOFIELD, Major General.."
His Excellency, Andrew Johnson,
Governor of Tennessee.
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General William H. Jackson and the late Rev. Dr. D. C. Kelley, the latter the youngest and one of the most distinguished of General Forrest's subordinate commanders, testified that the most intrepid fighters Forrest's command ever encountered was the First East Tennessee Cavalry under the command of Colonel James P. Brownlow.
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The only other son of Governor BROWNLOW, Colonel John Bell BROWNLOW, now residing at Knoxville, was Commander of the Ninth Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, U. S. A., in the Civil War. His regiment, under his command, was one-third of the Federal troops numbering about 1,300 men, which on the fourth of September, 1864, completely surprised and attacked the Confederate brigade of General John H. Morgan at Greenville, Tennessee. In this engagement General Morgan was killed and about eighty of his men killed and wounded. The Federal force, about 1,300, was comprised in equal numbers of the Ninth Tennessee, Thirteenth Tennessee and Tenth Michigan. Only three men were killed on the Federal side; two of Colonel Brown- low's regiment and one of the Tenth Michigan, commanded by Major Newell. Eighteen men were wounded on the Federal side, twelve of whom were of Colonel Brownlow's command. Two pieces of the Confederate artillery were captured in the fight and this was done by a charge led by Colonel BROWNLOW. One of these guns was sent as a present to Andrew Johnson, then Military Governor of Tennessee.
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The reason for the complete victory for the Federal troops on this occasion was that the Confederates before daylight were completely surprised, their pickets having been captured asleep. Only a few weeks later the Confederates surprised this Federal Brigade and as completely surprised and defeated it as it had been surprised and defeated William Gannaway BROWNLOW married Eliza O'Brien who was a descendant of the Gaines family (See Gaines).
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The children of Governor William Gannaway BROWNLOW and his wife, Eliza O'Brien BROWNLOW are: Susan BROWNLOW, Colonel John Bell BROWNLOW, General James P. Brownlow, Mary BROWNLOW, Fannie BROWNLOW, Annie BROWNLOW and Caledonia Temple BROWNLOW.
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Of the foregoing:
Susan BROWNLOW married first Dr. James H. Sawyers and had one child, Lillie, (who married Rev. Samuel D. Long, President of Martha Washington College, Abingdon, Virginia, and married Dr. Daniel T. Boynton as her second husband, and had four children: Lucile Boynton (who married Clarence A. Benscoter and has Daniel Boynton Benscoter) ; Edmee Boynton (who married Louis D. Huntoon) ; Ilia Boynton (who married Franklin Pierce Swindler and has Franklin Pierce Swindler, Jr., and Jean Swindler) ; Dr. Emerson Boynton (who married and has Daniel E.
Boynton, Lewis -D. Boynton and Charles G. Boynton).
Colonel John Bell BROWNLOW married Fanny Fouche and had three children; William Gannaway BROWNLOW); second (who married for his first wife Miss Gertrude Mattingly of Washington City, and has Fannie Fouche BROWNLOW, who married Len G. B'roughton, jr., and married for his second wife, Isabel Sevier Williams) ; John Fouche BROWNLOW (who married Miss Helen Clark, of Washington City, and has John F. Brownlow, Jr., and Helen Clark BROWNLOW) ; and Jennie BROWNLOW (who married Edward J. Ashe and has Jane Brown- low Ashe.
General James P. Brownlow married Belle Cliffe' and had no children.
Mary BROWNLOW married Henry M. Aiken and had Fannie B. Aiken (who married Frank Carnahan and has Elizabeth Cairnahan) ; William BROWNLOW Aiken, Horace Aiken. Halmer Aiken, Frank Aiken, Eliza BROWNLOW Aiken and Henry M. Aiken,Jr.
Fannie BROWNLOW married George G. Latta and had Georgia Latta; William BROWNLOW Latta, Ernest Latta, and Vivian Latta......
Annie BROWNLOW married William F. Patrick and had William BROWNLOW Patrick.
Caledonia Temple BROWNLOW married John C. Hale and had John Boynton Hale.
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Nancy BROWNLOW, daughter of Joseph A. Brownlow and Catherine Ganaway BROWNLOW, married John S. Martin, who was born in Virginia in 1795. He removed to Salem, Illinois, in 1845 and died in 1865. From 1825 to 1845 he was Clerk of the County and Circuit Courts of Scott County, Virginia.
On removing to Illionis he emancipated several slaves. His first wife was a Morrison.
Their son, James Stewart Martin was Colonel of the 1 1 1 th Illinois Infantry and Brevet Brigadier General of Volunteers, elected as a Republican to Congress in 1872 defeating Judge Silas Bryan, father of Honorable William J. Bryan. .
John S. Martin's second wife was Nancy BROWNLOW, who died in 1846, leaving several children.
Their third child, Nancy Rogers Martin, married Samuel Bradford, of Illinois...
They had two children, John S. Bradford and Mary Bell Bradford, who died young. John S. Bradford is now President of the Bank of Greenville, and has two children, one of whom, Edgar Bradford, is now with the United States Army in France.
Robert Martin, the fourth child of Nancy BROWNLOW Martin and John S. Martin, was a Captain in the Union Army in the War Between the States. He married Alice Scott, of Salem, Illinois. They have three children, Dora Martin, Charles Martin and John Martin, and four grandchildren, of whom the oldest, Louis Martin, is in France.
Catherine Martin, the fifth child of Nancy BROWNLOW Martin and John S. Martin, married C. R. Bennett, of Greenville, Illinois. They had two children, Louis E. Bennett and Charles Courtney Bennett. Courtney Bennett died unmarried.
Louis E. Bennett is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Regular Army of the United States. He served in the Spanish-American War since when he has been in the Regular Army. For two months he was in command of a rgiment in France on the fighting line. He was then transferred to an important position and is now Commander of the Organization of Central Training No. 1, Heavy Artillery. He has several thousand officers and men under his training.
Colonel Bennett married Josephine Tippin, of Greenville, Illinois.
They have no children.
Thompson G. Martin, son of Nancy BROWNLOW Martin and John S. Martin, was a soldier in the Union Army in the War Between the States and was in twenty-one battles. He married Jennie Wrenn, of Salem, Illinois, and had four children, namely: Winifred Martin, Nellie Martin, Edna Martin, and Harry Martin and seven grandchildren, the eldest of whom, Lawrence Martin, is in France.
Benjamin Estell Martin, the sixth . child of Nancy BROWNLOW Martin and John S. Martin, was also in the Union Army in the War Between the States, but was so young he could only enlist as a drummer boy. He married Florida Cunningham, of Salem, Illinois. They had several children, among them, Mary Martin, Bertha Martin, Nancy Martin, Estelle Martin and John Martin.
Matilda Martin, the seventh child of Nancy BROWNLOW Martin and John S. Martin, married John Gibson, of Alma, Illionis. They have three children, Joseph Gibson, John Gibson and Jane Gibson. Matilda Martin Gibson died while in the Philippines on a pleasure trip. Their daughter, Jane Gibson, married Frank Phillips and resides in Oklahoma.
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Children of JAMES BROWNLOW and KATHERINE BROWNLOW are:
i. ALEXANDER2 BROWNLOW,LIEUTENANT, b. Augusta County,Virginia.
ii. ISAAC BROWNLOW, b. Augusta County,Virginia.
iii. JOHN BROWNLOW, b. Augusta County,Virginia.
2. iv. MARGARET BROWNLOW, b. Abt. 1773, Augusta County,Virginia.
v. SAMUEL L. BROWNLOW, b. Augusta County,Virginia.
vi. JAMES REED, b. 1774, Augusta County,Virginia.
3. vii. JOSEPH A. BROWNLOW,SR., b. 1780, Augusta County,Virginia; d. 1816, Wythe County,Virginia.
Generation No. 2
2. MARGARET2 BROWNLOW (JAMES1) was born Abt. 1773 in Augusta County,Virginia. She married JOHN McClelland Abt. 1792. He was born Abt. 1765 in Scotland.
Children of MARGARET BROWNLOW and JOHN McClelland are:
i. ISAAC BROWNLOW3 McClelland.
ii. SOPHIA B. MCCLELLAND, b. Abt. 1805, Washington County,Virginia.
3. JOSEPH A.2 BROWNLOW,SR. (JAMES1) was born 1780 in Augusta County,Virginia, and died 1816 in Wythe County,Virginia. He married CATHERINE Gannaway Nov 1804 in Wythe County,Virginia, daughter of WILLIAM Gannaway and ELIZABETH WRIGHT. She was born 1780 in Augusta County,Virginia, and died 1817 in Sullivan County,Tennessee.
Notes for JOSEPH A. BROWNLOW,SR.:
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History of Tennessee
Pages 740-742
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William Gannaway BROWNLOW son of Joseph A. Brownlow born and raised in Rockbridge, Wythe County,Virginia on August 29,1805, and died in Sullivan County,Tennesse in 1816.
J. A. was in the war of 1812 and two borthers were at the battle of Horseshoe and two others died in naval service.; wife Catharine Gunnaway died 3 months after J. A. leaving 5 children. 3 boys, and 2
girls.......
After his parents died William was taken by his mother's relatives reared to hard labor until 18, he moved to Abingdon,Virginia as a carpenter, traveling Methodist minister and in 1828 entered politics in Tennessee. Inagurated Goventor April 5,1865.....
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7) Joseph A.- Brownlow married Catherine Gannaway.
His first military service was as a private in the War of 1812.
Later he was given a Lieutenant's commission.
His son, William Ganaway BROWNLOW, is the most distinguished of the name.
He was born in Wythe County,Virginia, August 29,1805.
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After ten years as a traveling minister (Circuit Rider) of the Methodist Episcopal Church from 1826 to 1836 he located, that is ceased to be in charge of a congregation, and entered Journalistic work.
He became editor and publisher of a newspaper in the interest of the Whig party.
For years before the Civil War his Newspaper had the largest circulation of any Journal south of the Ohio or Potomac Rivers unless George D. Prentice's Louisville Journal be excepted. People took it for its editorials as it was without Associated Press Dispatches.
That after the War Between the States he became Governor of Tennessee and United States Senator is well known; but the incidents of his early life, which contributed to the production of so remarkable a character, and subsequent incidents of his career are not so well known.
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Brownlow believed in blood and was himself the offspring of that sturdy race from the North of Ireland which has given to our country three-fourths of its Presidents and its leading statesmen, editors, merchants and soldiers—the race of Jackson, Monroe, Harrison Polk, Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan, John C. Calhoun, the Prestons, Blairs, Breckinridges, Moreheads, Stewarts, Porters, Greeleys and many others who might be named, prominent in all the walks of American life.
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His mother's maiden name was Catherine Gannaway daughter of William Gannaway and his wife, Elizabeth Wright, who were natives of Augusta County,Virginia and large slave-owners....
They were a family distinguished for moral worth, good sense and Christian piety.
The father of William Gannaway BROWNLOW was a Presbyterian.
He died when his son was ten years of age.
His mother was a Methodist and he joined her church.
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The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans
Publication: Boston, Massachusetts
The Biographical Society,1904
Walter Preston BROWNLOW - 1851
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Children of JOSEPH BROWNLOW and CATHERINE Gannaway are:
i. ALEXANDER3 BROWNLOW, b. 1803, Wythe County,Virginia.
4. ii. WILLIAM GANAWAY BROWNLOW, b. 29 Aug 1805, Rockbridge,Wythe County,Virginia; d. 29 Apr 1877, Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee.
iii. ELIZABETH WRIGHT BROWNLOW, b. Abt. 1807, Wythe County,Virginia.
iv. NANCY HAMILTON BROWNLOW, b. Abt. 1808, Wythe County,Virginia.
5. v. JOSEPH A. BROWNLOW, b. 1810, Cripple Creek,Wythe County,Virginia.
Generation No. 3
4. WILLIAM GANAWAY3 BROWNLOW (JOSEPH A.2, JAMES1) was born 29 Aug 1805 in Rockbridge,Wythe County,Virginia, and died 29 Apr 1877 in Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee. He married ELIZABETH ANN O'Brien 11 Sep 1836 in Carter County,Tennessee, daughter of JAMES O'Brien and SUSAN EVERETT. She was born 25 Sep 1819 in Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee, and died 04 Feb 1914 in Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee.
Notes for WILLIAM GANAWAY BROWNLOW:
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Fanny BROWNLOW b: Abt. 1852
Caledonia BROWNLOW b: Abt. 1854 in Knox County,Tennessee
Ann BROWNLOW b: Abt. 1855
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Children of WILLIAM BROWNLOW and ELIZABETH O'Brien are:
i. SUSAN C.4 BROWNLOW, b. May 1838, Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee.
ii. JOHN BELL BROWNLOW, b. 19 Oct 1839, Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee.
iii. JAMES P. BROWNLOW, b. 1842, Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee.
iv. MARY M. BROWNLOW, b. 1849, Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee.
v. FRANCES BROWNLOW, b. Abt. 1852, Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee.
vi. CALEDONIA BROWNLOW, b. Abt. 1853, Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee.
vii. ANNIE BROWNLOW, b. Abt. 1855, Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee.
5. JOSEPH A.3 BROWNLOW (JOSEPH A.2, JAMES1) was born 1810 in Cripple Creek,Wythe County,Virginia. He married MARY A. UNKNOWN Abt. 01 Jun 1850 in Washington Township,Virginia. She was born Abt. 1826 in Washington Township,Virginia, and died in Washington Township,Virginia.
Child of JOSEPH BROWNLOW and MARY UNKNOWN is:
i. WALTER PRESTON4 BROWNLOW, b. 27 Mar 1851, Washington Township,Virginia
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1. JAMES1 BROWNLOW was born Abt. 1730 in County of Antrim,North Ireland, and died 1789 in Augusta County,Virginia. He married KATHERINE 'KATE' BROWNLOW. She was born in County of Antrim,North Ireland, and died in Augusta County,Virginia.
Notes for JAMES BROWNLOW:
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James BROWNLOW Birth: Abt 1695 in Ballywoolly Co Armagh Ireland
Marriage 1 UNKNOWN
Elizabeth BROWNLOW b: 1724 in Ireland
William BROWNLOW b: 1727 in Ireland
Jane BROWNLOW b: 1733 in Ireland
John BROWNLOW b: 1737 in Ireland
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Possible parents
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Notable Southern Families
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BROWNLOW FAMILY
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All the people of the name BROWNLOW in the United States are descended from James and Kate BROWNLOW, who emigrated to the United States about 1745, from the County of Antrim, North Ireland. They were both school teachers and members of the Presbyterian Church.
James taught the boys and his wife the girls.
James was a classical scholar and taught Latin and Greek. He taught at Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia, and among his pupils there was the boy Sam Houston, the Hero of San Jacinto, Governor of Tennessee, President of Texas and United States Senator from that State after annexation and in 1861 Governor of Texas and the only Governor of the eleven seceded States who opposed the secession of his State.
After teaching several years at Lexington, the Brownlows removed to Abingdon,Southwestern Virginia, where they followed the same occupation of school-teaching and here one of James Brownlow's pupils was the afterward famous orator and Senator, William C. Preston, of South Carolina.
Both of these distinguished men ever retained a grateful recollection of their faithful teacher, two of whose sons, Alexander and Isaac, fought under General Jackson at the battle of the Horseshoe, the most important of the many battles
Jackson fought with the Indians, and which led to his command at the battle of New Orleans.
Two other? of them, Samuel and William, died Naval Officers. Of the latter Commodore Charles Stewart, "Old Ironsides," under whom he served as a Lieutenant, said:
"He was one of the bravest men I have ever known."
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James and Kate BROWNLOW had seven children, six sons and a daughter, namely:
(1) Alexander BROWNLOW.
(2) Isaac BROWNLOW.
(3) Samuel L. Brownlow.
(4) William L. Brownlow.
(5) John BROWNLOW.
(6) Margaret BROWNLOW..
(7) Joseph A. Brownlow.
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(1) Alexander BROWNLOW is honorably mentioned in the history of the War of 1812-15 as a Lieutenant in the regular Army in command of Fort Bowyer on the Mississippi. He so distinguished himself in defending this Fort from an attack by the British that he was promoted to Captain and, like his brothers, William and Samuel of the Navy, he was retained for gallant and meritorious service after the war ended, when the regular Military and Naval Service was reduced by Congress.
He died in the service and his remains are in the Cemetery at New Orleans. Among the descendants of Captain Alexander BROWNLOW is the wife of Honorable Andneus A. Jones, United State Senator from New Mexico. Senator Jones is a native of West Tennessee.
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(2) Isaac BROWNLOW, great-grand-father of Honorable Louis BROWNLOW, one of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, was an inferior officer under General Jackson and bore his dispatches from the Creek War to Huntsville, swimming the Tennessee River on horseback.
His numerous descendants in 1861 enlisted in the Confederate Army.....
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Among the descendants of Isaac BROWNLOW are Honorable Louis BROWNLOW, one of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and the late John F. Brownlow, Mayor, and a leading citizen of Columbia, Tennessee. Poetry is not associated with warlike qualities, but if the poems written and published in the newspapers of the period by Lieutenant William L. Brownlow and Isaac BROWNLOW, Captain of Scouts, under Jackson, were collected they would make a small volume.......
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(3) Samuel L. Brownlow, was a wagon master under General Jackson, and was in the battle of the Horseshoe.
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(4) William L. Brownlow, who served as a Lieutenant under Commodore Charles Stewart died a Captain in the Navy and his remains repose in the Navy Yard at Norfolk, Virginia.
(5) John BROWNLOW was an inferior officer in the Navy and died at sea.
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(6) The only daughter, Margaret, married a Scotchman, John McClelland.
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A son of theirs, Isaac BROWNLOW McClelland was for about thirty years Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court at Som- erville, West Tennessee, and an elder in the Presbyterian Church. A grandson, Lawrence Sparks, was for many years Pastor of a Presbyterian Church at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. All the descendants of John McClelland and Margaret BROWNLOW were Presbyterians in religion and were Confederates in the War Between the States.
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(7) Joseph A.- Brownlow married Catherine Gannaway.
His first military service was as a private in the War of 1812.
Later he was given a Lieutenant's commission.
His son, William Ganaway BROWNLOW, is the most distinguished of the name.
He was born in Wythe County,Virginia, August 29,1805.
--
After ten years as a traveling minister (Circuit Rider) of the Methodist Episcopal Church from 1826 to 1836 he located, that is ceased to be in charge of a congregation, and entered Journalistic work.
He became editor and publisher of a newspaper in the interest of the Whig party.
For years before the Civil War his Newspaper had the largest circulation of any Journal south of the Ohio or Potomac Rivers unless George D. Prentice's Louisville Journal be excepted. People took it for its editorials as it was without Associated Press Dispatches.
That after the War Between the States he became Governor of Tennessee and United States Senator is well known; but the incidents of his early life, which contributed to the production of so remarkable a character, and subsequent incidents of his career are not so well known.
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Brownlow believed in blood and was himself the offspring of that sturdy race from the North of Ireland which has given to our country three-fourths of its Presidents and its leading statesmen, editors, merchants and soldiers—the race of Jackson, Monroe, Harrison Polk, Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan, John C. Calhoun, the Prestons, Blairs, Breckinridges, Moreheads, Stewarts, Porters, Greeleys and many others who might be named, prominent in all the walks of American life.
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His mother's maiden name was Catherine Gannaway, daughter of William Gannaway and his wife, Elizabeth Wright, who were natives of Augusta County,Virginia, and large slave-owners.
They were a family distinguished for moral worth, good sense and Christian piety.
The father of William Gannaway BROWNLOW was a Presbyterian.
He died when his son was ten years of age. His mother was a Methodist and he joined her church.
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A nephew of the late Governor BROWNLOW was the Honorable Walter Preston BROWNLOW, who died in 1910 while a Member of Congress in the fourteenth year of his service. Walter Preston BROWNLOW at the time of his death had had appropriated for his District more money than had previously been appropriated for the whole state of Tennessee.
This included more than two millions for the National Soldiers Home at Johnson City, public buildings at Bristol, Johnson City and Greeneville, a Fish Hatchery, the only one in Tennessee, in Unicoi County, and he had the burial place of Andrew Johnson made a National Cemetery. When he secured an appropriation of $35,000 for this purpose Congress had only made appropriation to mark or beautify the burial grounds of three Presidents.
It is in the military Service of the country that the Brownlows have been especially zealous.
Joseph A. Brownlow was third Lieutenant in the Fourth Regiment, Tennessee Militia, in the War of 1812.
James Patton BROWNLOW, youngest son of Governor William G. Brownlow, was Colonel of the first Tennessee Cavalry Volunteers, U. S. Army, in the Civil War.
After having been shot through both legs and four horses shot under him he was promoted to Brigadier General when only twenty-three years of age.
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As to the service of General James P. Brownlow, I quote the following letter addressed to Andrew Johnson, Military Governor, by the distinguished soldier who died as Commander-in-chief of the United States Army:
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Nashville, Tennessee
May 21,1863.
Governor:
"Having been informed that Lieutenant Colonel BROWNLOW of the First East Tennessee Cavalry is spoken of for Colonel of one of the new regiments to be raised in your state, I desire to recommend him as eminently qualified and deserving. I have rarely seen a cavalry officer who excited my admiration in so high a degree. He is energetic, daring and skillful. Success with him and his gallant command is the invariable rule. "I am, Governor,
"Very respectfully your obedient servant,
"J. M. SCHOFIELD, Major General.."
His Excellency, Andrew Johnson,
Governor of Tennessee.
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General William H. Jackson and the late Rev. Dr. D. C. Kelley, the latter the youngest and one of the most distinguished of General Forrest's subordinate commanders, testified that the most intrepid fighters Forrest's command ever encountered was the First East Tennessee Cavalry under the command of Colonel James P. Brownlow.
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The only other son of Governor BROWNLOW, Colonel John Bell BROWNLOW, now residing at Knoxville, was Commander of the Ninth Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, U. S. A., in the Civil War. His regiment, under his command, was one-third of the Federal troops numbering about 1,300 men, which on the fourth of September, 1864, completely surprised and attacked the Confederate brigade of General John H. Morgan at Greenville, Tennessee. In this engagement General Morgan was killed and about eighty of his men killed and wounded. The Federal force, about 1,300, was comprised in equal numbers of the Ninth Tennessee, Thirteenth Tennessee and Tenth Michigan. Only three men were killed on the Federal side; two of Colonel Brown- low's regiment and one of the Tenth Michigan, commanded by Major Newell. Eighteen men were wounded on the Federal side, twelve of whom were of Colonel Brownlow's command. Two pieces of the Confederate artillery were captured in the fight and this was done by a charge led by Colonel BROWNLOW. One of these guns was sent as a present to Andrew Johnson, then Military Governor of Tennessee.
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The reason for the complete victory for the Federal troops on this occasion was that the Confederates before daylight were completely surprised, their pickets having been captured asleep. Only a few weeks later the Confederates surprised this Federal Brigade and as completely surprised and defeated it as it had been surprised and defeated William Gannaway BROWNLOW married Eliza O'Brien who was a descendant of the Gaines family (See Gaines).
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The children of Governor William Gannaway BROWNLOW and his wife, Eliza O'Brien BROWNLOW are: Susan BROWNLOW, Colonel John Bell BROWNLOW, General James P. Brownlow, Mary BROWNLOW, Fannie BROWNLOW, Annie BROWNLOW and Caledonia Temple BROWNLOW.
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Of the foregoing:
Susan BROWNLOW married first Dr. James H. Sawyers and had one child, Lillie, (who married Rev. Samuel D. Long, President of Martha Washington College, Abingdon, Virginia, and married Dr. Daniel T. Boynton as her second husband, and had four children: Lucile Boynton (who married Clarence A. Benscoter and has Daniel Boynton Benscoter) ; Edmee Boynton (who married Louis D. Huntoon) ; Ilia Boynton (who married Franklin Pierce Swindler and has Franklin Pierce Swindler, Jr., and Jean Swindler) ; Dr. Emerson Boynton (who married and has Daniel E.
Boynton, Lewis -D. Boynton and Charles G. Boynton).
Colonel John Bell BROWNLOW married Fanny Fouche and had three children; William Gannaway BROWNLOW); second (who married for his first wife Miss Gertrude Mattingly of Washington City, and has Fannie Fouche BROWNLOW, who married Len G. B'roughton, jr., and married for his second wife, Isabel Sevier Williams) ; John Fouche BROWNLOW (who married Miss Helen Clark, of Washington City, and has John F. Brownlow, Jr., and Helen Clark BROWNLOW) ; and Jennie BROWNLOW (who married Edward J. Ashe and has Jane Brown- low Ashe.
General James P. Brownlow married Belle Cliffe' and had no children.
Mary BROWNLOW married Henry M. Aiken and had Fannie B. Aiken (who married Frank Carnahan and has Elizabeth Cairnahan) ; William BROWNLOW Aiken, Horace Aiken. Halmer Aiken, Frank Aiken, Eliza BROWNLOW Aiken and Henry M. Aiken,Jr.
Fannie BROWNLOW married George G. Latta and had Georgia Latta; William BROWNLOW Latta, Ernest Latta, and Vivian Latta......
Annie BROWNLOW married William F. Patrick and had William BROWNLOW Patrick.
Caledonia Temple BROWNLOW married John C. Hale and had John Boynton Hale.
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Nancy BROWNLOW, daughter of Joseph A. Brownlow and Catherine Ganaway BROWNLOW, married John S. Martin, who was born in Virginia in 1795. He removed to Salem, Illinois, in 1845 and died in 1865. From 1825 to 1845 he was Clerk of the County and Circuit Courts of Scott County, Virginia.
On removing to Illionis he emancipated several slaves. His first wife was a Morrison.
Their son, James Stewart Martin was Colonel of the 1 1 1 th Illinois Infantry and Brevet Brigadier General of Volunteers, elected as a Republican to Congress in 1872 defeating Judge Silas Bryan, father of Honorable William J. Bryan. .
John S. Martin's second wife was Nancy BROWNLOW, who died in 1846, leaving several children.
Their third child, Nancy Rogers Martin, married Samuel Bradford, of Illinois...
They had two children, John S. Bradford and Mary Bell Bradford, who died young. John S. Bradford is now President of the Bank of Greenville, and has two children, one of whom, Edgar Bradford, is now with the United States Army in France.
Robert Martin, the fourth child of Nancy BROWNLOW Martin and John S. Martin, was a Captain in the Union Army in the War Between the States. He married Alice Scott, of Salem, Illinois. They have three children, Dora Martin, Charles Martin and John Martin, and four grandchildren, of whom the oldest, Louis Martin, is in France.
Catherine Martin, the fifth child of Nancy BROWNLOW Martin and John S. Martin, married C. R. Bennett, of Greenville, Illinois. They had two children, Louis E. Bennett and Charles Courtney Bennett. Courtney Bennett died unmarried.
Louis E. Bennett is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Regular Army of the United States. He served in the Spanish-American War since when he has been in the Regular Army. For two months he was in command of a rgiment in France on the fighting line. He was then transferred to an important position and is now Commander of the Organization of Central Training No. 1, Heavy Artillery. He has several thousand officers and men under his training.
Colonel Bennett married Josephine Tippin, of Greenville, Illinois.
They have no children.
Thompson G. Martin, son of Nancy BROWNLOW Martin and John S. Martin, was a soldier in the Union Army in the War Between the States and was in twenty-one battles. He married Jennie Wrenn, of Salem, Illinois, and had four children, namely: Winifred Martin, Nellie Martin, Edna Martin, and Harry Martin and seven grandchildren, the eldest of whom, Lawrence Martin, is in France.
Benjamin Estell Martin, the sixth . child of Nancy BROWNLOW Martin and John S. Martin, was also in the Union Army in the War Between the States, but was so young he could only enlist as a drummer boy. He married Florida Cunningham, of Salem, Illinois. They had several children, among them, Mary Martin, Bertha Martin, Nancy Martin, Estelle Martin and John Martin.
Matilda Martin, the seventh child of Nancy BROWNLOW Martin and John S. Martin, married John Gibson, of Alma, Illionis. They have three children, Joseph Gibson, John Gibson and Jane Gibson. Matilda Martin Gibson died while in the Philippines on a pleasure trip. Their daughter, Jane Gibson, married Frank Phillips and resides in Oklahoma.
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Children of JAMES BROWNLOW and KATHERINE BROWNLOW are:
i. ALEXANDER2 BROWNLOW,LIEUTENANT, b. Augusta County,Virginia.
ii. ISAAC BROWNLOW, b. Augusta County,Virginia.
iii. JOHN BROWNLOW, b. Augusta County,Virginia.
2. iv. MARGARET BROWNLOW, b. Abt. 1773, Augusta County,Virginia.
v. SAMUEL L. BROWNLOW, b. Augusta County,Virginia.
vi. JAMES REED, b. 1774, Augusta County,Virginia.
3. vii. JOSEPH A. BROWNLOW,SR., b. 1780, Augusta County,Virginia; d. 1816, Wythe County,Virginia.
Generation No. 2
2. MARGARET2 BROWNLOW (JAMES1) was born Abt. 1773 in Augusta County,Virginia. She married JOHN McClelland Abt. 1792. He was born Abt. 1765 in Scotland.
Children of MARGARET BROWNLOW and JOHN McClelland are:
i. ISAAC BROWNLOW3 McClelland.
ii. SOPHIA B. MCCLELLAND, b. Abt. 1805, Washington County,Virginia.
3. JOSEPH A.2 BROWNLOW,SR. (JAMES1) was born 1780 in Augusta County,Virginia, and died 1816 in Wythe County,Virginia. He married CATHERINE Gannaway Nov 1804 in Wythe County,Virginia, daughter of WILLIAM Gannaway and ELIZABETH WRIGHT. She was born 1780 in Augusta County,Virginia, and died 1817 in Sullivan County,Tennessee.
Notes for JOSEPH A. BROWNLOW,SR.:
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History of Tennessee
Pages 740-742
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William Gannaway BROWNLOW son of Joseph A. Brownlow born and raised in Rockbridge, Wythe County,Virginia on August 29,1805, and died in Sullivan County,Tennesse in 1816.
J. A. was in the war of 1812 and two borthers were at the battle of Horseshoe and two others died in naval service.; wife Catharine Gunnaway died 3 months after J. A. leaving 5 children. 3 boys, and 2
girls.......
After his parents died William was taken by his mother's relatives reared to hard labor until 18, he moved to Abingdon,Virginia as a carpenter, traveling Methodist minister and in 1828 entered politics in Tennessee. Inagurated Goventor April 5,1865.....
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7) Joseph A.- Brownlow married Catherine Gannaway.
His first military service was as a private in the War of 1812.
Later he was given a Lieutenant's commission.
His son, William Ganaway BROWNLOW, is the most distinguished of the name.
He was born in Wythe County,Virginia, August 29,1805.
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After ten years as a traveling minister (Circuit Rider) of the Methodist Episcopal Church from 1826 to 1836 he located, that is ceased to be in charge of a congregation, and entered Journalistic work.
He became editor and publisher of a newspaper in the interest of the Whig party.
For years before the Civil War his Newspaper had the largest circulation of any Journal south of the Ohio or Potomac Rivers unless George D. Prentice's Louisville Journal be excepted. People took it for its editorials as it was without Associated Press Dispatches.
That after the War Between the States he became Governor of Tennessee and United States Senator is well known; but the incidents of his early life, which contributed to the production of so remarkable a character, and subsequent incidents of his career are not so well known.
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Brownlow believed in blood and was himself the offspring of that sturdy race from the North of Ireland which has given to our country three-fourths of its Presidents and its leading statesmen, editors, merchants and soldiers—the race of Jackson, Monroe, Harrison Polk, Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan, John C. Calhoun, the Prestons, Blairs, Breckinridges, Moreheads, Stewarts, Porters, Greeleys and many others who might be named, prominent in all the walks of American life.
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His mother's maiden name was Catherine Gannaway daughter of William Gannaway and his wife, Elizabeth Wright, who were natives of Augusta County,Virginia and large slave-owners....
They were a family distinguished for moral worth, good sense and Christian piety.
The father of William Gannaway BROWNLOW was a Presbyterian.
He died when his son was ten years of age.
His mother was a Methodist and he joined her church.
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The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans
Publication: Boston, Massachusetts
The Biographical Society,1904
Walter Preston BROWNLOW - 1851
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Children of JOSEPH BROWNLOW and CATHERINE Gannaway are:
i. ALEXANDER3 BROWNLOW, b. 1803, Wythe County,Virginia.
4. ii. WILLIAM GANAWAY BROWNLOW, b. 29 Aug 1805, Rockbridge,Wythe County,Virginia; d. 29 Apr 1877, Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee.
iii. ELIZABETH WRIGHT BROWNLOW, b. Abt. 1807, Wythe County,Virginia.
iv. NANCY HAMILTON BROWNLOW, b. Abt. 1808, Wythe County,Virginia.
5. v. JOSEPH A. BROWNLOW, b. 1810, Cripple Creek,Wythe County,Virginia.
Generation No. 3
4. WILLIAM GANAWAY3 BROWNLOW (JOSEPH A.2, JAMES1) was born 29 Aug 1805 in Rockbridge,Wythe County,Virginia, and died 29 Apr 1877 in Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee. He married ELIZABETH ANN O'Brien 11 Sep 1836 in Carter County,Tennessee, daughter of JAMES O'Brien and SUSAN EVERETT. She was born 25 Sep 1819 in Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee, and died 04 Feb 1914 in Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee.
Notes for WILLIAM GANAWAY BROWNLOW:
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Fanny BROWNLOW b: Abt. 1852
Caledonia BROWNLOW b: Abt. 1854 in Knox County,Tennessee
Ann BROWNLOW b: Abt. 1855
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Children of WILLIAM BROWNLOW and ELIZABETH O'Brien are:
i. SUSAN C.4 BROWNLOW, b. May 1838, Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee.
ii. JOHN BELL BROWNLOW, b. 19 Oct 1839, Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee.
iii. JAMES P. BROWNLOW, b. 1842, Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee.
iv. MARY M. BROWNLOW, b. 1849, Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee.
v. FRANCES BROWNLOW, b. Abt. 1852, Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee.
vi. CALEDONIA BROWNLOW, b. Abt. 1853, Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee.
vii. ANNIE BROWNLOW, b. Abt. 1855, Knoxville,Knox County,Tennessee.
5. JOSEPH A.3 BROWNLOW (JOSEPH A.2, JAMES1) was born 1810 in Cripple Creek,Wythe County,Virginia. He married MARY A. UNKNOWN Abt. 01 Jun 1850 in Washington Township,Virginia. She was born Abt. 1826 in Washington Township,Virginia, and died in Washington Township,Virginia.
Child of JOSEPH BROWNLOW and MARY UNKNOWN is:
i. WALTER PRESTON4 BROWNLOW, b. 27 Mar 1851, Washington Township,Virginia