This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BREWER, HINTON, TOWNLEY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Ad.2ADI/1099 Message Board Post: Seeking help identifying the Georgia family of my George W. Brewer, born August 1844 in GA. He enlisted in Co. G, 11th Alabama Infantry known as the Northport Rifles which is Tuscaloosa County, AL. George lost a leg in the war and settled in Birmingham, AL after the war and died there about 1889. His profession was distiller. He named a daughter Mary Margaret Brewer, possibly after his mother or grandmother, and he named a son Marion Moses known as "Mape" Brewer. He married Disa Townley of Townley, AL and there was a connection to a William Hinton family where George, age 16 was enumerated on the 1860 Tuscaloosa County census. The census stated he was born in Georgia, and the Hintons were from SC and TN. Please note this is Hinton, not to be confused with Hinson. Family tradition tells of the Brewers coming from England and a Brewer ancestor of George marrying an Indian woman. This seems to fit with the family from Telfair Co. GA and Arthur Brewer. Would love to hea! r from anyone aware of an untraced George W. Brewer b. in 1844 in GA and then to AL.