Hello Brown Listers, I am forwarding this Huston Brown message to the list with Cathie's permission. Can you help? Perhaps you have a connection! She has plenty of info on the Woodson Long family and is not seeking information on that line. She can be reached at repete@rconnect.com ----start--- Trying to connect my Huston Brown (b. 1832) - via someone else who may be related via one of his siblings, parents, etc.........I have NO information on Huston Brown prior to his enlistment into the war in 1863 at Nativity, KY. His pension record lists him as enlisting as an Iowan. He married in Benton County, IA to Nancy Jane Long who was born in Decatur County, Indiana. Although I believe Nancy Jane was a grown woman at the time, she came to Benton County, IA with her parents, Woodson P. Long and Anna K. Waddle. I suspect that Huston Brown knew Nancy Jane while both lived in Indiana but when Huston was mustered out of the war in Feb. 1866, he came to Benton County, IA to marry his love rather than going back to Indiana. Huston and Nancy were married November 11, 1866 (same year as his discharge). I do not have the name of Huston Brown's parents or any of his siblings either but my fiancée's father told my fiance that his ancestors originally came from the East and hear tell that he thought they came over on the Mayflower or some other pilgrimage ship way back........ Since Huston Brown was born in 1832, records of such were scarce or, if they didn't, there was usually a fire or other natural disaster that destroyed them. Do you know of a way that I might find a Huston Brown's name who was born in 1832 in Indiana? Something that may give me a clue as to who his parents were? I am at a loss! Virginia ====Indiana Heritage==== http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~acorntree