I am researching the paternal side of my family and looking for my "lost" Brown ancestors. My gggrandfather Staten Brown was born about 1799 in North Carolina, Tennesee or Virginia. The 1830 Census shows Staten & Dicy (Coffield) Brown living in Halifax Cnty., N.C. with 6 children in the home. One of these children was my ggrandfather William Wesley Brown who was born on Jan. 9, 1823 in North Carolina. I believe that another sons name was Sandy Brown and have no idea of the names of the other children. The 1840 Census shows Staten Brown living in Rush Cnty., Indiana and in 1845 he married Penny Ruby in Rush Cnty., Indiana. The 1850 Census shows the family in Madison, Jeffferson Cnty., Indiana. The 1860 Census shows Staten Brown living in Hadley, Barry P.O., Pike Cnty., Illinois with the following in the household: Penelope Brown, Harrison Brown, Jessie Brown, Cassius Brown, John Quincy Brown, Henry & Henryetta Brown(twins?), & Allen Brown. There was a Sandy Brown living close to Staten Brown with the following in his household: Sarah Ann Brown (wife) and the following children: Mary Brown, William Brown, Samuel Brown, Robert S. Brown and Sandy Brown. There was an Andrew Brown living with Sandy who may have been a child of Staten Browns. The 1860 Census shows William Wesley Brown(my ggrandfather) living in Kinderhook, Illinois with his family. William Wesley Brown married Thankful Delight Smith on 8/8/1852 in Pittsfield, Pike Cnty., Illinois. They had the following chidren in the home in 1860: Adrian Jackson Brown, Oliver Howard Brown, William Lloyd Brown, Dicy Jane Brown, Virta Angeline Brown and Estella May Brown. William Wesley Brown moved to Iowa in the late 1860's and continued to move around the mid-west frequently. Any help at all regarding this family will be greatly appreciated and I will share my information with others. Thank you. P.S. I have a copy of a death record of a Wesley Brown who passed away on Dec. 7, 1911 at his home in Pearl Township, Pike Cnty. He was born July 2, 1830 in Ohio and at the time of his death he had lived in Pike Cnty., for 60 years. Name of father was Slater Brown, born in Virginia. Could this be Staten Brown without the t crossed and and n mistaken for r? The name of the mother was unknown. The 1850 amd 1860 census films show Staten Brown born in North Carolina, William Wesley Browns death record show Staten Brown born in Tennessee. Sandy B. Eglise.