Sue, I may have found Rosa's parents. Catherine Fedorchak had BROWN ancestry, I believe. If you tie into her ancestry...this is curious, cause she was my third cousin, 1 generation removed on the Burkhardt line. From "Family Research in Monroe Co., OH", Vol. II, Part I by Catherine Fedorchak: (Newspaper articles written in the Spirit of Democracy in the 1970s) In turn, the first part of this is from Hardesty's History. "JEPTHA DUVALL - Hardesty, pg. 12 - Sunsbury Twp. Came to this county in the spring of 1833 and has since been engaged in farming in Sunsbury township. He was born in Pa., Washington Co. Feb. 21, 1803. His parents were John DUVALL and Lydia MILISON. Mr. Duvall was married in Belmont Co. Ohio Feb. 14, 1828 to Mary BECKETT, who was born in Virginia Oct. 3, 1803. Her parents were John BECKETT and Hannah POTTS. They came to this county in 1831. The children of Jeptha and Mary Duvall are: Hannah J., born March 16, 1829, died May 20, 1850; Eleanor, Aug. 12, 1830, died Nov. 20, 1850; Dorothy, b. Nov. 25, 1831, died Nov. 30, 1862; Elias, Dec. 17, 1833, lives at Keokuk, Iowa; Mary, Oct. 3, 1835, died June 22, 1859; Samuel N., April 30, 1838, lives at Ozark, Ohio; Lydia (BROWN) May 27, 1843, died Jan. 7, 1871; Margaret E., Nov. 2, 1844, died Nov. 7, 1862. Mr. Duvall's address is Ozark." And then Catherine goes on to say: "Additional information - Many of the families in Sunsbury Township were of Quaker origin and Jeptha Duvall falls in this category. His mother, Lydia Millison, was disowned from that sect for marrying "contrary to discipline." That record can be found in W. W. Hinshaw's "Friends Records" for the Westermoreland (Pa.) Monthly Meeting - under date of Sept. 24, 1796 - James and Abigail Millison and children, Sarah, Mary, Lydia, James, Ann, and John were received on certificate from Bradford Monthly Meeting dated 4-17-1795, and endorsed by the Redstone Monthly Meeting Sept. 2, 1796. It seems that Lydia was not the only Millison child to marry contrary to discipline - the records show that Sarah Buffington, nee Millison; Mary Jones, nee Millison; and Ann Jones, nee Millison, all married out of the sect. Also James Millison and wife, Dorothy were discharged in 1816, reinstated in 1817, moved to Plainfield Monthly Meeting in 1817. Hinshaw's books are a must for a researcher who suspects that his ancestors may have been Quakers. Jeptha's Duvall's daughter, Lydia, married my gr-grandmother, Isabella BROWN HAWKINS' brother, JAMES BROWN. James was a Private in Co. G 36th Reg. Ohio Infantry, and enlisted on Aug. 12, 1861, and discharged Sept. 3, 1864. He was sick at Cowen Station, Tenn. from Aug. 1863 to the end of his enlistment period. He was born in Monroe Co., Ohio, a son of JOHN and SARAH ALLEN BROWN. At the time of his enlistment, he was 21 years old, 5' 11" tall, light complexion, grey eyes, brown hair, and a farmer. He married Lydia Duvall on Nov. 26, 1864 at the bride's parents in Monroe Co. by the minister, Perry Orr. They were the parents of ROSE (NORRIS) born Sept. 28, 1870, and Ella M. BROWN, who had died by 1898. Lydia Duvall Brown died Jan. 1, 1871, and James married (2) Margaret E. Mackelroy. By this marriage he had Hattie R. BROWN, born 3-18-1876. James BROWN died Oct. 1, 1877, and his widow married Philip W. HUNT. ROSE BROWN was brought up by her aunt, Isabella HAWKINS. Isabella stated in an affidavit in behalf of Rosa's claim to benefits, that she was 66 years old (Jan. 28, 1898) the sister of James BROWN. James HAWKINS also made an affidavit in this case. Now how many generations back does that take you??? Catherine wrote this article for the Spirit of Democracy May 19, 1975. I was really looking for George Fogle's parents in this book. I found this little bit in "Family Research in Monroe Co., Ohio", Vol. II Part II: "My gr-grandmother SARA ALLEN BROWN (1811-1847) - buried at Moffetts near Jackson Ridge had a brother named Francis ALLEN. " Looks like yours and Catherine's ancestry is pretty close. When you get this all in your database, let me know what the relationship to Catherine you are. In other words, what is Sara to you? From "Family Research in Monroe Co., Ohio" Vol. III: "Matilda BROWN [bb I think maybe John Browns second wife] sued John BROWN for divorce, but June 17th, 1857, the divorce was dismissed by the plaintiff. They probably remained together for a year, as he died in July 1858, and later John's daughter, Isabella and her husband, James HAWKINS, bought up the family farm from Matilda. Isabella's obituary notice had stated that she had been born and died on the same farm, and that was a clue that led me to her father, John BROWN. However, before Matilda dismissed her divorce suit, I also found, merely by hunting page by page in the records, that she had enjoined John from getting his hands on any of her property which consisted of some sheep, saddles, household items, etc. That in itself is enough to lead one to believe that she was probably a widow, and the person to whom her property was entrusted was Amos TRUAX, and in view of the previous record here, he was probably her son-in-law." This is the previous record: Another case I happened onto in the court records, and which is unindexed is dated 1849. Jacob WINLAND and Nancy WINLAND, his wife, sued Matilda BROWN, late Matilda DRUM and John BROWN her husband, et al. The et als included Mary Ann TRUAX and Amos TRUAX, her husband, Margaret DRUM, Elizabeth DRUM, Alexander DRUM, Frances DRUM, and Amanda Jane DRUM. That in itself doesn't tell a researcher very much, but when added to other bits and pieces I found over the space of all those years, I know that Matilda DRUm and John BROWN her husband refer to my ancestor, John BROWN, and his 2nd wife, who was the widow of Henry DRUM, nee FERRELL. The et als were heirs of Henry and Matilda FERRELL DRUM, but this particular record does not spell that out." Hey, our cousin was some kind of researcher, wasn't she? -- Bonnie Burkhardt <burkhard@flash.net> <bburkhardt@juno.com>