hi yall! :-) i don't mean to intrude but wanted to say that my daddy's grandmother was sarah frances browning buried at guthries chappell and wanted to find out if anyone of you ladies are going to homecoming this year there? i will be going - i live in opelika, al and go to the cemetary alot to clean graves and do family research. my grandfather was lander jackson browning and my grandmother was rebecca young browning. my daddy's brothers and sisters are herman, harlan, clen, frances and agnes. my family is william andrew browning. again i didn't mean to intrude just would love to meet long lost family and am trying my best to get my side of the brownings to guthries chappell for homecoming. :-) take care and have a great day! terri jmccain66@bellsouth.net wrote: Deone: Which of Bennie's sisters married which McCain? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deone Keane" To: Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:47 PM Subject: Re: [ALCLAY] Re: [17] Browning > Wanda, > I don't feel that this is another family group and I will tell you why. > 1) James is a long standing namesake in the Browning and McCain families. > Both families arrived here approximately around the same time frame, from > North and South Carolinas. In our family alone I know definitely there are > double cousins of mine, from both Browning and McCain's marrying. The same > Dr. Daniel Nolan, had an influence also upon the names of two of my > uncles. > Daniel Browning, b.1904, his brother next in line, Nolan Browning b. 1907. > There were 9 more children that followed. > 2) I too have some kin that married a Sarah Frances Browning, in fact that > is my mother's name today and she married a James M. Browning... Isaac > (Benny) as he was always called, had a younger sister that married into > the > same McCain's > family as he had done by marrying Oralee McCain. They all chose the > proper > naming methods that had been carried on long before they arrived here in > this country. Family names are so very important to consider and use as a > method of closing those gaps. Should I dare mention that D word...? > That > is the DNA =======Should we maybe start one just to see from whence we > came.. Ha ha I'm game if the rest of you are interested. There is allot I > would love to know about our Browning lines. So much that we don't know, > so > much lost now. We have the technology folks. > Let me know what you all feel about this. Also can't we get kits to use > with > the female ancestors as well? > I'm all for it, let me know whey... > thanx > Deone\P.S. I hope I've not bored you too much. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wanda" > To: > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:23 PM > Subject: Re: [ALCLAY] Re: [17] Browning > > >> I just took a peek at my Browning files and have a couple of questions. >> >> --John Browning born 1802 in North Carolina, died 1885 in Alabama >> married Jana Hawkins, born about 1801 in Virginia and died about 1890 in >> Alabama. They were parents of James Madison Browning, born 1824 in South >> Carolina and died 1910 in Clay County, Alabama. (I do have a lot more >> details on James Madison than just the years.)-- >> >> My only source for the above is an interview with Kiffin Browning in >> 1990. I feel like the information is correct, but would like a direct >> source. Does anyone have any? >> >> Wanda Craft >> >> >> ==== ALCLAY Mailing List ==== >> Visit Clay Co. Alabama archives for records online >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/clay.htm >> > > > ==== ALCLAY Mailing List ==== > Visit Clay County ALGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~alclay/ > ==== ALCLAY Mailing List ==== Visit Clay Co. Alabama archives for records online http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/clay.htm --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo! your home page