This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Browning Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.browning/162.370.600.1.1.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Evidently because George Washington died toward the end of the 1700s there are a number of George Washington Brownings during that time period. My GW Browning was born in Georgia and died in Texas. He was born in 1808, became an attorney and died around 1850 in Anderson County, Texas.