This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brown, Hitt, Smith Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.virginia.counties.culpeper/4470/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My grandfather, Frank Edward Brown, was "adopted" by John R. and Fannie Feaganes Brown around 1898. He was born in New York in 1886. How could he have ended up in Stevensburg and was he a Brown? We have no idea how he ended up there. Anyone with any information on the Browns from Stevensburg, please contact me.