ROBERT BROWN born 1779 Md., died 31 Jan 1863 in Muskingum County Oh., married Sarah Ann Elder, on 14 Aug 1803. Known children were: Loyd (sic), Elijah, William, Henry, and Elias. Robert was son of John Brown and Mary Katherine (---) of the Delaware Lower Hundred, west of Sykesville Md., near some Dorseys, Shipleys  and Elders, who were connected. Eldersburg, just north of Sykesville, is near where the old Brown-Owings Cemetery used to be, and where grandfather Abel Brown and other Browns were buried. Sarah was daughter of John Elder Jr. and Sara (---) of the same Md. area.

 

Evidence shows that Robert Brown and family moved from Md. to west Penn., then to Perry County Ohio (first Jackson Township, where the Pargins, Loyd’s in-laws, lived, and then Monroe Township). Robert Brown was there from at least 1830. The 1850 Perry County, Monroe Township Census (which for the first time shows more details) indicates that he was then 71 and thus born 1779, in Maryland. In that report his wife was Sarah Brown age 69 (born 1781), also born in Maryland. He was then a farmer with $600 dollars of property. An Elizabeth R. Brown then 10, was living with them, probably a granddaughter. Next door was Elias Brown age 29 born in Pa., which would indicate that in 1821 that family had been for a time in Pennsylvania as suggested above. According to a Perry County history, Robert Brown of Monroe Township had a son Henry who married 23 Dec 1847 to Caroline Mains (a descendant of the our Maryland Shipley family), and who died in the Civil War. The township tax lists give an idea of when the Browns were there: 1851 Robert and Henry, 1855 Elias and Henry, 1859 Henry, 1863 no Browns (Perry County, Monroe Township Quadrennial Enumerations). When Robert arrived in the county no land purchase was recorded, and when he left, no land sales were recorded, or at least have survived. But by 1860 Robert and Sarah had moved in with son Elijah and family, in nearby West Zanesville of Muskingum County. There they died and are buried in the Greenwood Cemetery. Sarah died in 1862.

 

Three Brown siblings moved west, to Madison County Indiana. They were William, who arrived first in neighboring Randolph County Ind. about 1836 before moving into Madison County, Loyd who arrived during the early 1840s after a stay in Henry County, and finally Elias, who had been with father Robert in Perry County, lost his wife, moved to Madison County during the 1850s and remarried to Catherine Moss. Two others, Elijah and Henry who died in the Civil War, remained. There were perhaps others, daughters especially, but they have not been identified.