Sarah Kafer wrote: "The Sarah BROWN I have was born in Freeport, Stephenson, IL, and she never married. It appears that my BROWN originated from NY (the earliest listing I have of them is 1810), but I don't know how long they lived there, or where they came from. I have very sketchy info on BROWN, but who knows." I have the following BROWN line in Stephenson County (is there a connection?): 1 Unknown BROWN b. 1790-1810 in MA m. Sarah ___________ b. abt. 1810 VT 2 Alvin Anderson BROWN b. 11/11/1830, Hamburg, Erie Co., NY m. 4/11/1852 in Stephenson Co., IL Harriet Louisa TORREY (b. 3/17/1834, Akron, OH) 2 Sarah BROWN b. abt. 1834 (probably Erie Co., NY) 2 John BROWN b. abt. 1835 (probably Erie Co., NY) 2 Rosetta BROWN b. abt. 1837 (probably Erie Co., NY) 2 Eunice BROWN b. abt. 1839 (probably Erie Co., NY) 2 Smith BROWN b. abt. 1841 (probably Erie Co., NY) 2 Dock (or Dockon) b abt. 1843 (Stephenson Co., IL) 2 Hannah BROWN b. abt. 1845 (Stephenson Co., IL) This family appears in the Stephenson County 1850 census - in Silver Creek. Of this family group, Smith and Alvin BROWN moved on to Iowa in the 1860s. Alvin then moved on to Nebraska in the 1870s - and then to Kansas in the late 1890s. Darryl Brown Austin, Texas