Cochrens, Browns, Buggln Children

P.P. Brown wearing G.A.R. Medal of membership

Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Veterans Organization.

Ptolemy Philadelphus Brown (son of Isaac H. Brown and Mary Brown) was born August 30, 1829 in Warren County, TN, and died November 02, 1903 in St. James, MO. He married Martha Ann Womack on February 07, 1850 in Warren County, TN, daughter (?) of Burgess Harrelson Womack and Sarah Webb. Family legend states he was opposed to slavery and that placed him in opposition to his wife's family and led to a disenfranchisement of them with her family. He served in the Civil War while living in northern Arkansas and may have been a scout. It is said in a letter that the Confederates has a rope ready if they ever caught him.
He signed the letter in "F.C. and L" significant to the G.A.R.

Children of Ptolemy Philadelphus Brown and Martha Ann Womack are:
+Mary Lavonia Brown, b. November 09, 1850, Warren County, TN, d. October 08, 1945, Phelps County, MO.
+Burgess Franklin Brown, b. August 05, 1854, TN, d. January 19, 1942, Hutchinson, KS
+Sarah Lavinia BROWN,
+Isaac Denton BROWN,
+Harold Lycurgus BROWN,
+George Mithrio BROWN,
+Clinton Marcellus BROWN,
+Felix Grundy BROWN


A note about the name: The name from records and family records is "Ptolemy Philadelphus" and he was named for the famous Roman. Many of the children of Issac Brown bear strikingly classical names indicating the family was well-educated and well read.

Velma D. Cochren, Plevna, Ks

Marcus Brown Children

Plevna, KS - school

George Daniel Cochren worked as a custodian here (Reno County, Kansas) in the 1920's.

Patsy and Plymouth Mortimore

North Carolina-Ohio-Iowa-Kansas.
Family legend states he was a minister (possibly Methodist). He did serve in civic positions in small community in Iowa in the 1840's.

Issac Brown - DNA UPDATE

Born in Scotland, came to American ca, 1820....believed to have changed his name and had originally been member of a protectorate family of the Clan Campbell of Breadlebane .

Isaac H. BROWN was born in 1806 in Scotland. He died after 1880 in MO. According to family stories, Isaac Brown was from Scotland. He ran away from an apprenticeship at the age of 14 years and came to America. That would have been about 1820. Some time later while fighting Indians, he was wounded and left for dead. He was found and nursed back to health by a tribe of peaceful Cherokees. As a result of his living with the tribe he married the daughter of a 'chief', Washtella. Fearing he might have to leave his new home he changed his name to Brown. It is not presently established what his name was originally.

He was married to Mary MOONEY about 1828 in TN. Children were: Ptolema Philadelphus BROWN, Juan Ferdnand BROWN , Archimides BROWN, Selticana BROWN, Lycourgus BROWN, Elsimora BROWN, Metrabar James BROWN, Mary BROWN, Marcellus BROWN, Fascilina BROWN, Marcius Sabines BROWN, Leonides Hannibal BROWN.

NOTE: A male child of a female descendent of this Brown family was tested for DNA and the Haplogroup identified for the female descendent was U5a1a1.

George Daniel Cochren

Born Muncie, IN (s/o Newton Jasper Cochren) and died Reno Co., Ks.

Mortimore Pots

[Photo by M. Hudson, 1993] The Mortimores in NC produced (either for their own use or for trade) pots and jugs used for storage. These pots shown were made by the original NC Mortimores and came down the line of Plymouth Mortimore through his daughter Pasty Alice Mortimore Sherod. These were in the possession of the descendents located in Kingfisher, Oklahoma in 1993.