Brown Roots

Favorite Name: Week 6 of #52ancestors One of the things I like about genealogy is all the names. I'm a credits junkie: I like to watch movie and TV show credits to spot interesting names. I began with someone else in mind, but then I realized it had to be Nonomoe Glenn. I never heard a story about her name, but the first four children were girls: Mary, Amber, Euphemia, and Joy. I can only surmise that when a fifth girl was born, their father said "No! No more!"  But who knows. They did go on to have two sons after that. My first thought was a pair of sisters who are cousins of Nonomoe. I think their names are just captivating: Daisie and Delilah Freshwater. They sound like a sunny meadow in springtime. In both cases they had a maternal grandparent who was a sibling of my great-great-grandmother Minerva Breece . I've been to several Breece reunions, which included descendants of several of the 10 children encompassing Minerva and her siblings, but I don't

In the Census - week 5 of #52ancestors You always have to take census information with a grain of salt. Sometimes a pound.  I haven't found anything truly startling in the census, but there was something unexpected that led me to a further understanding of my great-great-grandmother's relationships. Lucinda Layton married my great-great-grandfather, Albert Newton Brown, in 1858. After he died in 1868 she married Henry Cryder, who she divorced after 18-1/2 years of marriage. She was 46 when she married her third husband, Finley P. Mowdy, in 1888. They had a daughter named Grace who was about 8 when they married. I have a picture of an elderly woman labeled "Aunt Grace Mowdy", identified I believe by my grandfather's sister Alma. I had trouble finding them in the 1900 census. Eventually I found Lucinda in Cedarville Township, Greene County, Ohio, living with Thomas and Grace Lovett with a relationship of mother-in-law. The handwriting is admittedly hard to rea