Claudia, You sound like me...my mother and father both had SC Andersons as ancestors. The only mention of Browns may or may not help but they are interesting anyway. 1) This was in Columbia 1817-1822 "On Main St. next below Barrett's, now Stanleys, stood the jail some distance back from the street. It was kept by John D. (Dictionary) Brown, Deputy Sheriff, a man of strong "contribution" who once made a statement the he had taken a defendant with a casement, but he had broke customary and was lying out in ambition.(He sounds like Casey Stengel or Yogi Berra! this is my observation because I have no idea what he meant) He had a son, a jack-leg Methodist exhorter, and several daughters, one of whom was the wife of Henry McGowen, who still lives here (1884) and another was first married to Passmore, a clerk in Hall's show store: and after his death to Mr. Bauskett of Newberry." The son who was a Methodist preacher was tongue tied and had trouble with his sermons. 2)In Lexington.SC on July, 1852, there was a great "freshet" (a large stream overflowed its bounds) and a Col.Wm. Spencer Brown was washed away when the Greenville Railroad Bridge washed away. His body was found one week later near Columbia. Cheers! Blanche