Patti, If no one else has given you info yet, I can send you 5 pages from the Montrose Cemetery transcriptions that contain 13 Browning names: Nellie, Rebecca, Irene, John Henry, Betty Maxine, James E, Vivian G, Minor S, Velma I, Bobby Max, Margaruite, Anna, and Nadine. Most have birth dates and some have date of death. I can also send you pages from marriage record transcriptions for Richard Mattis and Mary J Browning, Isaac Good and Iva M. Browning, Adm Keinborts and Deborah Browning and Charles Browning and Bertha Brady. One of the marriage books 1833-1877 show some entries with Zera Browning as the Justice of the Peace. I did not find any Browning names in the Effingham Census. If you want these copies, send your u.s. mail address to my email address. After you receive the copies, if you want to pay for them, send whatever donation you wish to the Effingham Genealogy and Historical Society, PO box 1166, Effingham, Il 62401. Happy Researching Ida Keating [email protected] [email protected] wrote: > > Hello fellow listers!! > I'm brand-new to the Effingham list. So first, a question before I get > into my family lines. Who should one write or email to ask about the > possibility of finding obits from the 1960's and forward? > Now to my family. I am looking for any information, descendants, etc., > of the family of Zera C. Browning. Zera married Amanda ?? (I think it's > Amanda....the census is so very faint) in Cumberland Co. but moved to > Effingham Co between 1880-1900. > He and Amanda had one son, Daniel Edward, b. 10 May 1865 in Cumberland > Co. Daniel married Rebecca C. (??) c1887 and they had the following > children: > i. Charles Elmer, b. Apr 1888 > ii. Bertha Nevada, b. Jul 1889 > iii. Nellie Leota, b. Jun 1892 > iv. John Henry, Sep 1893 > v. unknown, b. c1895 > vi. Dessie May, b. Jul 1887 > vii. Minor St. Clair (male), b. Mar 1900 > > I am given to understand that at least two of these children lived and > died in or around Montrose/Effingham. Minor died in Oct 1975 in > Effingham and Charles Elmer died in 1968 in Montrose. According to the > SS Death index, a woman named Vivian Browning died in Effingham in Jan > 1995, but I don't know how she's related exactly either. > I would love to correspond with anyone researching this family, or with > anyone who could give me the slightest tidbit of information. I am > awaiting death certificates, etc., but I like the personal touch as well. > Thanks to all, and happy hunting! > > Patti (Browning) Strickler > Richardson TX > (email: [email protected])