Dear Brown List: My great grandmother, Ellen Brown was born 1 August 1853 in Eden, N.Y. and she married Sidney G. Hickok after he came back from the Civil War. Ellen had siblings George Lyman Brown, Julia A. Brown, Eugene L. Brown and Ellen was the youngest (as far as is known). Ellen and siblings were the children of James Brown, and Nancy Bryant. James was the son of Hope Brown and Ruth Hosmer Brown of Sudbury/Concord, MA. The information beginning with James becomes murky and hard to find. Does it ring a bell with any of you? The story goes that Hope and Ruth were well-to-do. and that Nancy Bryant was a servant girl in Hope's home. James fell in love with her and they married and he was disinheritied by his family. Children of James Brown and Nancy Bryant were William Brown, Lorenzo (father of Ellen) Norman Brown, Sophronia Brown and Clarinda Brown of (seems like around Boston?) Lorenzo, by the way, married (1) Diana Conant who died young and (2) Clarissa Ann Nye who was Ellen's mother. There is Zero (I mean Zilch) information about Clarissa. With this outline, is there anyone out there can help me add the remaining branches to my tree? Does'nt seem to be any info on the children of Lorenzo and Clarissa either. HELP!!.. Best Regards, John Claude Gummoe