This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cousins, Brown, Allen, Hawthorn Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0dB.2ACI/4151 Message Board Post: Elizabeth Cousins, daughter of William Cousins and wife of William Brown William Cousins of Sugar Creek Twp, Venango County, Pennsylvania died in 1825 leaving a will, see Venango County Will Book A page 40, written 15 April 1825 and probated 23 April 1825. William left a widow, Mary Ann, and five living children, or sons Thomas & William; and daughters Elizabeth, Nancy and Sarah. William also mentions that an equal share was to go to his son Samuel's children, not named. Witnesses were Royal Brown and John Wilson. As the will does not mention the husbands of the daughters, there has been much speculation about various Cousin women with the names of those mentioned in William's will. A recent examination of the deeds located in the Register of Deeds office, Franklin, Venango County, Pennsylvania, proves that Elizabeth Cousins, daughter of William, was married to a William Brown by 1830 and both living in Union Twp, Morgan County, Ohio by that date as well. In the first deed mentioned below, William and Elizabeth Brown appoint Samuel Allen as their attorney to sell her share of William's estate; and the second deed actually sells the share to John D. Hawthorn. Venango County Pennsylvania Deed G: 65-66 A deed located in the Register of Deeds office, Franklin, PA, Book G, pages 65 & 66, dated 28 August 1830 and recorded 24 December 1835, identifies the grantors as William Brown and his wife, Elizabeth, late Elizabeth Cousins and daughter of William Cousins. William and Elizabeth were living at Union Twp, Morgan County, Ohio at the time of the deed. William and Elizabeth appointed Samuel Allen, resident of Rockhill Twp, Muskingum County, Ohio, as their attorney to sell Elizabeth's rights to two parcels of land previously owned by William Cousins, deceased; one being the "home tract" of 150 acres land occupied by William Cousins, son of William Cousins; and the second parcel about 200 acres in Venango County. Venango County Pennsylvania Deed G: 67 A second deed dated September 1830; also recorded in 1835, with grantors William and Elizabeth Brown of Morgan County, Ohio and Samuel Allen their attorney sell land to John D. Hawthorn of Venango County, Pennsylvania. The deed specifies that William Cousins, deceased of Venango County, Pennsylvania, by his last will and testament, dated 15 April 1825 and recorded in the Register's Office in Franklin, devised that the whole of his real estate to be sold upon the death of his widow and to be divided equally among William's children. Accordingly, Elizabeth Brown, as one of the daughters of William Cousins, along with her husband, William Brown, sells her share to John D. Hawthorn for $133.33. Roger N. Whiting 1313 Superior St. Chippewa Falls, WI 54729