This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------6274FC105E514C0F190650A8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit United Brethren in Christ Bishops -- attachment --------------6274FC105E514C0F190650A8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name="Brwn.Evngr.Hskns.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Brwn.Evngr.Hskns.txt" October 2, 2000 from ajbrown@tigerpaw.com To: Carol Hoskins -- hoskins@trib.com & To: BROWN-L@rootsweb.com For all interested Brown researchers: Hope this helps someone out, if not Carol. In my voluminous files on Evinger ancestry, there are various papers showing David Brown was bron in Warren Co, IN. He married Elizabeth Evinger, daughter of Rev. Henry Evinger and wife Elizabeth _?_. In The Bishops Church of the United Brethren in Christ by Paul Rodes Koontz and Walter Edwin Roush, Volume I by P. R. Koontz, 1950; The Otter- bein Press, Dayton, Ohio [pages 201 & 208;] it says ...Michael Brown, migrated from Alsace to America, and settled in the beautiful Tulpehocken valley of eastern Pennsylvania. Here [Philip Wm] Otterbein was pastor of the German Reformed congregation from 1758 to 1760. Michael Brown and his wife were among the first to respond to [Otterbeins] evangel- ical preaching. Five sons and three daughters with the parents constituted the Brown family. One of the sons was Peter, father of Bishop William Brown ... About 1824 Peter Brown and his family lived in or near Taylor Creek, a few miles west of Cincinnati, Ohio. His sons were John, Simon, David, and Wil- liam. ...David Brown married the daughter of Henry Evinger, a charter member of the Miami Confer- ence. Their daughter married [ca26 June 1864 in IN to] Rev. O. Hadley... and their second child was Mahala, born 20 Oct 1838 in Warren Co, IN. The Hadleys were missionaries in Sierre Leone, Africa. At least Mahala served there from 1866-69 and 1871-74. A photo taken ca1867 of David and Elizabeth Brown with granddaughter Mary Elizabeth Hadley, along with one [taken ca1870?] of Mahala Brown Hadley are in my files -- sent to me in March 1987 by Mrs Jane E Mason, then Archivist of the United Brethren Archives - Church of the United Brethren in Christ, 302 Lake Street, Huntington, IN 46750, phone 219-356-2312. Mrs Mason also sent obits for Elizabeth [Mrs Hen- ry] Evinger, their daughter Elizabeth Evinger Brown, and latters daughter Mahala Brown Hadley Bridge- man. Although Mrs Mason didnt send me more data on David and Elizabeth Browns family, she said they did have more on descendants of Mary Elizabeth. The obit for Elizabeth Evinger Brown [born 1817 Germantown, Oh - died 1910 around Dayton, Oh, I think] says husband David Brown died Mar 1876 and their son Levi Brown around Mar 1877. They also had daughters Mahala Hadley [Mrs John] Bridge- man, Mrs S C Magee - a preacher in Los Angeles, CA in 1910; and youngest Mrs Mary E McKinney of Otterbein, IN. My notes say David Brown was listed on 1850, 1860, and 1870 Federal Censuses of Warren Co, IN. But I dont have the time to look up those rec- ords. In Koontzs UB Church Bishops history, it says, Bishop [William] Browns body rests in the Pond Grove cemetery, not far from Otterbein, Indiana. ... Here is the grave of Levi D. Brown also a mini- ster of the United Brethren Church and a nephew of Bishop Wm. ... This is the grave of David Brown. He, too, was a minister in the United Brethren Church and a broth- er of Bishop Wm. Brown, and the father of Levi D. Brown. This is the grave of the Rev. Oliver Hadley; his wife was the daughter of David Brown, sister of Le- vi D. Brown, and niece of Bishop Wm. Brown, all ministers ... If anyone needs more on this particular line of Browns, it may be found in this UB Church Bishops history by Koontz, in the UB Archives. ajb --------------6274FC105E514C0F190650A8--