David, As a descendant of Andrew Jackson Brant, I thank you for the information you passed on. Janis <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.

G.Hillery Brant and Barbara Ellen Brotemarkle had a dau. Lillian May Brant. She first married William G. Hiser (Hiser Barrel CO.) WM died 20 Feb 1918 Cumb. All. MD. Lillian lived near the old John Heights Element. School near Memorial Hospital. Lillian b. 1879 Cumb. All. MD, died 31 March 1947 buried Rose Hill Cemetery, she had six children with William Garland Hiser. On 18 Nov 1927 she married my grandfather Harrison Wilbur Johnson, within a couple years he left her and went to Grottoes, VA (where he is buried) and lived with another woman Eleanor Knight. He was a railroader. Harrison Wilbur was married to Carrie Bramble, they had 2 children Rev. Chester Harrison Johnson and Eva Mae Johnson, (she married George Stein. Harrison Wilbur left Carrie Bramble, lived with my grandmother Esther (Drewnoski), together they had 4 children, but he was not divorced from Carrie Bramble. The day after he was divorced from Carrie, he married Lillian May (Brant) Hiser widow, my mother and siblings were put in the Burlington WV orphanage after a year of living with Harrison and Lillian. My mother remembered her well. Harrison it seems would get involved with a wealthy woman, spend her money making patents, then leave her. So I am told. Now there is a relationship somehow between Carrie Bramble and Lillian Brant. There is a lady in Cumberland that tried to explain all the connections. I need to call her again. She married a Brotemarkle. I took a picture recently of a Brotemarkle that is buried at Sunset Memorial Park, Cumb. MD. Both Carrie's mother and Lillian's grandmother's were a Rice. Carrie's-Elizabeth Ann Rice (dau of Levi) Lillian's- Susannah Rice (don't know who her father is). Ok, now this gets interesting, I am related of course to my grandmother (mate #3) of Harrison Wilbur, I am related to his 2nd wife Carrie Bramble through the Rice. I am related to his 4th wife Lillian Brant through her Rice. BTW, Harrison's 1st wife was Nettie B Chaney, and I don't even want to go there, they did have a son John Joseph Johnson. I might have some more tidbits if anyone is interested. It is tangled. Has taken me many years to get it figured out. This from Rose Hill Cemetery Book about Lilllian May (Brant) Hiser Johnson: Johnson, Lillie May Age: 68, Residence: Cumberland, MD. Date died: 31 March 1947, Burial: 3 April 1947, Funeral Home: George, Area: 83, Lot 22, Grave: A-2, Pg. ref: 172. Buried next to 1st husband, William Hiser. BJ reiss46atverizondotnet