This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brown, Austin, Ball Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Yh.2ADE/1966.1 Message Board Post: I don't know if there is a connection, but my gg grandmother's maiden name was Charity Mcbride Brown. She was born in Tennessee and I believe she had a brother named Martin. I don't know much else about her family, and I don't know where in Tennessee she was born. She lived in White County during the 1840's and 1850's. She later came to Kansas in the early 1860's. Karen