This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hamilton, Brown Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SFB.2ACI/1443.1569.1 Message Board Post: I've got a George Marion Hamilton with missing parents. He was born in 1844 in IN. His father was born in OH and mother in PA. His obit says he was orphaned in 1849 and raised by a maternal grandfather, William Brown.