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James Brown, Esq.
28. 1892
Henry Minks
2, 1892
..
..
=
..
..
=
Sept
..
Mrs. A. A. Carmack
=
27.1893
Sadie Wilkins Layton
251
Necrological Record of the Three Towns
Jane A. Thornton
died Feb. 20, 1894
George E. Hatfield
Thomas Duncan
Mrs. W. S Haddock
died Apr. 18, 1896 23,1896
Eliza Colvin
Mrs. Wm. Hafman
=
14,1896
F. C. S. Williams
Mar. 15, 1894
Archie Dwyre
06
May 7,1896
Wm. Piersoll
16, 1894
Mrs. Amim Leonard
Mrs. Orella C. Harrison
June 21 1896
Ada Porter
66 28, 1894
Abraham B. Gaskill
July 5,1896
Jessie Fitzgerald
June 17,1894
Kate Crawford
5,1896
Willard Wilkins
:
30,1894
Hilton Johnson
20,1896
Thos. Flannigan
July 6,1894
Jennie Byland Britton
19, 1896
Thos. D. Hoover
June 25, 1894
Mrs. Heisterman
31,1896
R. R. Winn
66
June 29, 1894
Eliza J. Johnson
=
3,1896
Josephine Welch Winters
31.1894
Mrs. Robert Demain
:
17,1896
John F. Martin
Aug. 2. 1894
Leonard Lenhart
46
24,1896
Mrs. Henry Delaney
Sept. 12, 1894
Dearth Marker
Sept. 5,1896
James Benton
.. 29,1894
Joseph Stroup
=
6,1896
Resin Woodfill
Oct. 3,1894
Percey Smith
14, 1896
Lydia Thistlethwaite
Nov. 7.1894
Wm. P. Searight
13, 1896
Prof. Robert H. Jamison
..
20,1894
Myrtle G. Allison
:
6,1896
E. H. Baird 46 25, 1894
Callie M. Dorsey
Oct. 2,1896
Joseph L. Rogers
Dec. 5, 1894
Dr. J. B. Barclay
Sept. 27,1896
T. M. Carver
Nov. 29, 1894
Wm. H. Rhodes
Oct. 11,1896
Wm. Hurford
Dec. 19. 1894
Jane Marshall 64
=
11,1896
Thomas Bricker
18, 1894
Frank Shallenberger
=
:
15,1896
Thos. F. Cock
28,1894
Charles O'Donnell
11,1896
Gertrude Michener
24, 1894
Dudley Chalfant
22,1896
John G. Fear
29,1894
Elizabeth A. Hyatt
29,1896
Ida B. Woodward
Jan. 9,1895
Roger Chew
Nov. 7, 1896
Samuel A. Lopp, Sr.
20,1895
Dr. Robert Playford
18. 1896
Donna Bell Elliott
Dec.
6, 1894
Mary M. Wood J. R. Hunt
27,1896
James V. Dwyer
= 20. 1895
Harry B. Swords
22,1896
Mary Chew
=
..
28.1895
J. Truman Wells
Dec
5,1896
Dale Bevard
Mar. 4, 1895
Ruth Marshall
16,1896
Otha Crawford
:
6, 1895
Mary M. Jones
=
18,1896
Ethel Bevard
Feb. 16, 1895
Mrs. Ann Haines
:
21,1896
Dr. J. B. Grooms
Mar. 10, 1895
Josephine McDonald
18, 1896
Samuel B. McCroy
27,1895
William Cornell
25, 1896
Rose E. Chew
27,1895
Cornelia Day
28,1896
Mrs. Eliza Herbertson
=
66
30,1895
Martin Dougherty
=
30,1896
Henry B. Cock, Jr.
May 12, 1895
Isaac S. Crall
Jan.
18,1897
Elizabeth J. Grooms
16, 1895
Charity A. Armstrong
27,1897
Edward Moorehouse, Sr.
:
13,1895
John Springer
27,1897
Harry L. Bevard
31,1895
Mrs. Elizabeth E. Truxal Fred Snider
Jan.
8,1897
James M. Smith
3,1895
Wm. S, Hatfield
Feb. 8,1897
William Shaffer
July
15, 1895
Eliza Pursglove
15, 1897
James Britton
:
=
..
27,1895
James L. Bowman
Mar 2,1897
Annie M. Johnston
30,1895
Clarence P. Springer
4
4,1897
Orlando W. Brashear
Aug. 24, 1895
Mrs. H. M. Wright
2,1897
Annie Clark
Daniel Campbell
..
6,1897
Lelia Patton
Sept 15. 1895
Robert Blaine
=
16, 1897
Rebecca Johnson
18,1895
Anna Krepps Wornock
18, 1897
Martha J. Barr
Oct. 6,1895
Simon Johnston
19,1897
Chas. Dorsey's child
7,1895
Charlotte Benton
: 26, 1897
Prof. A. C. Lyons
24. 1895
Maria Minehart
14,1897
William Claybaugh
19,1895
Martha J. Blair
Apr. 20, 1897
Mamie Taylor
Nov. 8, 1895
Joseph Gibbons
30,1897
Hananah Gue
9,1895
Emma Allison League
May
19, 1897
Lizzie Pursglove
20,1895
Eli Bailey
=
19, 1897
Mary M. Tate
29,1895
John Acklin
28. 1897
Riley Eckles
Dec.
14,1895
David Martin
29.1897
O. R. Knight
11, 1895
Mrs. E. A. Hastings
June
1,1897
Mathew Davis
8 1895
Sarah Jane Graham
May 28, 1897
Jesse P. Twigg
Jan.
14, 1896
Benjamin Thornburg
=
June 11, 1897
Mollie Reese
29,1896
Ruth Houston
14,1897
Jacob Marks
=
=
6
Jan. 31, 1896
Harrold G. Booth
5,1897
Eliza B. Cox
=
=
15. 1896
Mrs. Annie Kisinger
Aug.
5,1897
Amanda S. Duncan
..
Apr. 2, 1896
Jennie Long
11,1897
George Stewart, Sr.
2, 1896
Gertrude B. Owen
64
31,1897
Charles Minehart
: 14, 1896
George Livingston, Sr.
Sept. 1,1897
Mary Irons
=
19, 1896
Mary A. Vanhook
=
2,1897
=
3.1895
Laura P. Elliott
=
31,1896
Ellen Smith
Apr.
Charles Coburn
=
June
9 1895
Belle Byland Theakston
20,1897
Lewis Marker, Jr.
24 1895
10, 1897
Harry Bane
15,1895
James Hardwick
:
27,1895
Lidie K. Booth
24.1897
46
27,1896 6, 1896
Frank P. Stewart
=
=
30,1897
Thomas Aubrey
Feb.
Moses Wright
July
1,1897
Sarah Stewart
=
July 8, 1894
Moses Moorehouse 16
Aug. 5,1896
Dr. Henry Eastman, Sr. =
July 13.1894
Jeannette Mc Williams
=
:
=
66
..
:
18, 1896
Chads W. Chalfant
=
Feb. 11, 1895
..
66
16, 1895
=
:
Dora Starr
=
Feb.
1,1897
=
2,1896
Ellen England
= 20,1894
21,1894 22, 1894
30,1896
Mrs. James Slocum
:
=
255
Necrological Record of the Three Towns
Mrs. Ann Leonix
died Sept. 10, 1897
James L. Me Donough died Sept 28. 1899
Mrs. John Bricker
12,1897
Isaac F. Thompson
..
..
10, 1899
Mrs. Moses Wright
.. 17.1897 Mrs. Ann Weston
.. 16, 1897
Capt. Sam VanHook
..
27.1899
Mrs. M. C. Griffin
..
Oct. 21, 1897
Wallace Garwood
16, 1899
Rebecca S. Goe
Nov. 20, 1897
18. 1897
Robert G. Taylor
20,1899
John W. Thompson
Mar. 6,1898
Joseph E. Adams
20,1899
George Mormell
Dec. 23. 1897
Charles Cox (colored)
20,1899
John McMahon
Feb. 18, 1898
John W. WorreII
Dec. 5,1899
Annie Chew Johnson
Mar. 7.1898 = 16, 1898
Samuel Thompson
46
7,1899
Nancy S. Houston
.. 27.1898
Fred S. Chalfant
15,1899
J. Holmes Patton
May 3.1898
A. Jack Weaver ..
17,1899
Margaret Woodfill
19,1899
Thomas Brawley
8.1898
John D. Bakewell, Sr.
July 22, 1898
Henry Hagar
clied Dec. 23, 1899
Adam Livingston
Aug. 18, 1898
Samuel Meese
23, 1899
George J. Wilkinson
Sept. 9, 1898
William Thomas
23, 1899
Mrs. Anna Cramer
10, 1898
Eike Matsick
23,1899
Peter Oszy
23,1899
Mike Rohal
23, 1899
John Weigle, Sr.
16, 1898
Joseph Maygar
23,1899
Geo. W. McClain
16, 1898
George Vasciek
23.1899
John Bennett
23,1895
Joseph Budshot
23, 1899
Harry Hagar
23, 1898
Andy Rapashie
23, 1899
James Hall
..
23, 1898
George Kovasa
23, 1899
John Cartwright
..
23 1898
Mike Patobeck John Knelsik
23, 1899
S. Hastings (colored)
23, 1898
Andy Parobeck
23, 1899
Robert Davis
23, 1898
George Vasilka
23. 1899
Joseph Ridge
27.1898
Oliver Bakewell
Jan. 1,1900
Maria Brock
Nov. 21, 1898
Wm. A. Suter
4,1900
John Hormell
30. 1898
John B. Patterson
6, 1900
Walter Smith
30. 1898
Adelbert L. Herrington
: 8,1900
Zackariah Powell
30,1898
Ephraim Bar
Feb. 1,1900
William Bricker
30. 1898
Solomon Smith
6, 1900
Noah Speer
30. 1898
Mar. 2, 1900
Warren Ailes
Dec.
3,1898
John L. Clawson
.. 3. 1900
D. D. Williams
..
12. 1898
Edwin Binns
..
9. 1900
Margaret Cooney
21. 1898
Amos Cleaver
12, 1900
Harriett Chew
Jan.
10. 1899
Mary Marker
..
13. 1900
John Weston
10, 1899
Nathaniel P. Hormell
15,1900
Thomas Lilley, Sr.
.. 16, 1899
Caroline V. Taylor
..
20. 1900
George Miller
20. 1899
lames W. Jeffries
..
23. 1900
Ellen Chew
May
1 1899
Thomas Barnes
22, 1900
Nathaniel Bird
5,1899
Robert Gillis, Sr.
64 29, 1900
Andrew Peyton
6,1899
Albert Rager
28. 1900
Joshua Speer
7,1899
Mrs. Alexander Shaw
Apr.
6. 1900
Nathan Crawford
..
11,1899
William Chaltand
11,1900
Oliver Wells
12, 1899
Dr. Q. C. Farqudar
Mar. 28, 1900
William Barr
15, 1899
Mrs. I. W. Parks
-, 1900 . 1900
Hugh T. Boley
Reason Lynch
May 21. 1900
Geo. W. Wilkinson
21,1899
Oliver P. Baldwin
..
Apr. 26, 1900 .. 23. 1900
Kate Roher
June 13, 1899
Ina L. Gue
26, 1900
Jack Harrison
9 1899
Carl N. Ailes
Jan. 26 1901
Wilbur Taylor
21,1899
Frank White
Feb. 28, 1901
Johnny Gray, Sr.
24,1899
Milton S. Thompson Thomas G. Nealan
28.1901 . 1901
Col. Robt. G. Ingersoll
:
22,1899
Charlotte Mitchell
..
Mar. 2,1901
Col. Alex. Leroy Hawkins
18, 1×99
Kate J. Krepps
..
3. 1901
James Pailing
Aug. 10, 1899
Elizal eth Dorsey
..
17.1901
Ellen Williams
13, 1899
John Albright T. Rollin Nelan, M. D.
..
28. 1901
John S. Cunningham
.. 13, 1899
Joseph Horner
Apr. 4. 1901
John Pratt
15, 1899
Harriett Claybaugh Britton"
..
6. 1901
Nancy Ann Snider
Ashbel F. Smith
..
11. 1901
James Dorsey
= 20,1899
George Lopp, Sr.
..
14 1901
James A. Hill
1,1899
Lucius M Theakston
17,1901
Bridget Thompson Ed. Butler
..
4 1899
lesse P. Crawford ..
= 19. 1900
Isaac W. Richard
14.1899
Cornelia Bolden (colored)
May 22, 1901
..
Feb. 11.1898
Albert Meese
23, 1899
Mrs. Robinet Crawford
=
-, 1898
Capt. 1. C. Woodward
13. 1898
23, 1898
Joseph Rodolencke
..
23, 1899
Wm. Pritchard
23.1899
John Hastings (colored)
23. 1898
Mine disaster at Bragrell, 24 miles east of Brownsville
Wm. Anderson
24.1898
Leah C. Pringle
6.1899
Robert D. Houston
John R. Knight
4.1898
Mrs. S. A. Mundell
..
Nov. 13, 1899
.. 21.1897
Alfred Hamilton
66
16,1899
Malissa M. Carter
Oct. 9 1899 Virtue Fox
= 25, 1899
James Dudgeon Frank Barnhart
15. 1897
Lettitia Bevard
Ruth A. Carmack
July
8, 1899
Nelson Chalfant
died
..
..
26. 1899
..
.. 26. 1901
Andrew Smith
..
13, 1899
Sept.
..
4. 1899
Mrs. Morgan ..
.. 17.1901
William Ailes
..
20,1899
Harrison Wood
20. 1900
Samuel Pope
Mar. 11, 1899
Rose Ann Bar
..
..
15 1899
Victoria Axton
19, 1899
James Allison Gue
..
Robert J. Thompson
256
Necrological Record of the Three Towns
William J. Rice
died May 23, 1901
Hanna J. Porter
John L. Nelan
24, 1901
Mary A McGinty
died Feb. 28, 1903 66 28,1903
William Husenman
28 1901
Charles A. Frost
28 1903
Elizabeth Lopp
46
30,1901
George W. Black
Mar. 3,1903
Robert T. Dales
31,1901
Samuel H. Piersol
6,1903
Ida Wilkins Layton
June 6,1901
Harriet Calvert Fletcher
Apr.
10, 1903
George W. Waggoner
:
=
8,1901
Charles Jadinsky
14
27,1903
James S. Binch
Mrs. Lucinda C. Swearer
Robert Moorehouse
30,1903
Mrs. Jennie Patterson Lopp“
12, 1901
Isaac Smothers
May 31, 1903
Martha Houston
14,1901
Adolphus Chew
June
5,1903
Isaac Coleman Ailes
15, 1901
William Hazen
July
1,1903
John S. Wilgus
=
16, 1901
Anna Ridge
9 1903
James Miller
July
5,1901
Christiana Lindy
=
9,1903
Jesse H. Bulger
=
9,1901
William Parkhill
23, 1903
Belle Deems Yorty
9,1901
James Simpson
=
31,1903
Oliver Allen, Sr.
15. 1901
John Ramage
Aug. 11, 1903
Thomas Hill
=
=
Aug.
9,1901
S. E Miller
killed
20,1903
William McKinley
Sept. 13, 1901
William Gately
20,1903
Charles Hormell
25, 1901
Child of S. Theakston
died
24,1903
Mrs. Nancy Burd
26, 1901
Miss Eva J. Murray
=
46
29,1903
Jos. D. Armstrong
*
= 29,1901
John Sorrell (colored)
3,1903
Anna Axton Manges
Oct. 25, 1901
Seaborn Crawford
44
3,1903
Alexander Wilson
=
66
5,1901
Agnes Selden
=
28, 1903
Benjamin Crall
44
18, 1901
Mrs. Fletcher F, Chalfant
=
29,1903
John L. Province
Jan.
5,1902
Mrs. Jane Van Kirk
=
=
20,1903
Mrs. Morgan Pierce
10,1902
Child of Totko
29,1903
Carrie Calvert
=
14, 1902
William Bravley
23 1903
Alonza Calvert
=
16,1902
William Gordon
25.1903
Jesse Smith
20,1902
Nicholas C. Swearer
=
2,1903
Elvy Grimes
Feb.
18,1902
Mrs. Caroline Wheeler
3,1903
Mrs. Jane Jackson
Mar.
15,1902
died =
21,1903
John Williams
"
18, 1902
Infant (Geo. Locatta)
26,1903
Prof. E. F. Porter
Apr.
5,1902
Infant (Hungarian)
27,1903
Fletcher F. Chalfant
=
21,1902
Infant (Hungarian)
27 1903
Robert Miller
May
14. 1902
Alexander Jordan
27,1903
Samuel H. Smith. Esq.
23,1902
Ettie Isler
Nov
22, 1903
Jeremiah Cane
11,1903
Amos Carlson
June
11, 1902
Steve Martinota
12,1903
Minnie Brenton
30,1902
Mrs. Mike Edecon
12,1903
W. H. Thomas
July 23,1902
Mrs. Mary Vernon
9,1903
Benjamin Shoemaker
25, 1902
Ignatz Nigy
10,1903
J mes M. Abrams
Aug. 9,1902
Joe Watto (Italian)
16, 1903
Erasmus Kaiser
=
"
10,1902
Mrs. Martha D. Calvert
Dec. 5, 1903
Kate Hurd Graham
Robert H. Acklin
27,1903
Mrs. Ella Bailey
46 -- , 1902
Joclin Moyer
21,1903
James W. Claybaugh
Sept. 3, 1902
Viola Crable (colored)
8,1903
Morgan Pierce
Ivy Kelley
10,1903
Leonard Swords
S. Green
15, 1903
Wilson Simpson
Silas B. Drum
18, 1903
William L. Guiler
44 13, 1902
Mr. Rosec (foreigner)
28,1903
Tony Kesfofe (foreigner)
22,1903
Isaac Linn
Oct.
10,1902
Lewis Stovey
28, 1903
Charles Marker
Nov.
7,1902
Infant of Isaac Frank
Jan.
19,1904
Isaac N. Burson
2.1902
Wm. Robinson
6,1904
John Reynolds
11,1902
Unknown Italian (blown up at tunnel)
66
4 4
9,1904
Joshua Mechem
24, 1902
Unknown Italian (blown up at tunnel)
9,1904
Lint Dutton
=
66
26,1902
Katherine Graham
16,1904
J. Shannon McCutchion
¥ 29,1902
Mrs. Lizzie Crable and child (smallpox, colored) died . 4
=
18, 1904
Wm. M. Linn
=
20,1903
=
16
26, 1904
U. G. M. Perrin
22, 1903
Caroline Briner
26,1904
Frank Martin
= 29, 1903
Killed at Briar Hill shaft .
James M. Hutchinson
Fel). 1.1903
Domino Cafosse
Jan. 28,1904
Simon Lilley
6, 1903
Frank Cafosse
28.1904
=
Nov. 5, 1901
John Dean
=
=
26 1903
Amanda Livingston
=
14, 1901
Mrs. Sarah Wright
Oct.
11,1903
Parker Pyle
7,1902
Child of Thos. Willians
Unknown (died of smallpox)
3, 1900
Anna Grimes Miller
16,1902
Mrs. Anna Marie Wilson
24,1903
Frank A. Gribble
25, 1902
John Pallent
11,1902
Ada L. Springer
=
13,1903
Louis Grafinger
13,1902
Henry Delaney
Dec.
27,1902 2, 1903
Henry Lancaster (colored) John Smith
16,1904
Fred Grover's baby
=
Jan.
7,1901
Thomas M. Hopkins
23, 1903
James Martin
8, 1901
Miss Blanche Springer
=
24, 1903
Joseph Farquhar
8, 1901
28,1903
Mrs. Mary Richey
=
=
16, 1901
Seaborn Crawford
Sept. 9, 1903
Mrs. Lucinda Eckles
25,1901
James Ghrist
18, 1903
Mrs. Amy Sargent
Joshua Hand
18,1901
Jack Hall
14,1903
9,1903
Mrs. Mary Montgomery
Mike Adanıs
23,1901
Capt. A. Carl Cock
12, 1903
21,1902
Jacob Lilley
Mrs. Brown
13, 1902
4, 1902
4, 1902
Mrs. Mollie Blair
17,1902
=
WVm. H. Ammon
= 25, 1902
=
3,1902
66
10,1901
66
257
Necrological Record of the Three Towns
Domino Castindinc
Jan. 28, 1904
Mrs. Elizabeth Eckles
died Mar. 15, 1904
Angelo Mazzo
28,1904
Elsie Laughery
.. 18, 1904
Mrs. Sara A. Kisinger
died
= 2, 1904
Isaac Winn
=
4. 1904
Infant of Mr. Luther Sheets "
=
9,1904
Archie McAleese
= 16, 1904
Robert Bailey
Lafayette Terrell (colored)
=
18, 1904
Samuel M. Binns
44
Ieb
4 1904
Alvin Harzy
26,1904
John H. Beckley
=
18, 190-1
Tony J. Vigotte
Mary Bolden (colored)
.. 27,1904
David D. Pugh
25,1904
Four Italians killed at tunnel
28,1904
C. G. Johnson
8, 1904
Two colored men killed at tunnel Mrs. Paul Hough
died Apr. 21,1904
Wm. M. Brewer
=
15, 1904
Infant of Geo Workman
22, 1904
Mrs. Cathern Troth
=
24 1904
Mrs. Geo. Workman
= 27,1904
A. B. Ledwith
4 4
24, 1904
Mrs. Margaret Fenwick
May
10, 1904
Roppath Celniso
= 24,1904
Edward Snowdon
Mar. 4, 1904
Thos. Williams
12. 1904
=
3, 1901
Ella Wakefield
.. 2,1904 Child of Win. Bell
17,1904
Child, Camino
7,1904
Jermiah Peirsol
31,1901
Nick Munson
.. 26, 1904
Daisy Murry
Capt. Michael A. Cox
20, 1904
11,1904
= 28, 1904
John Mitchell
18, 1904
29,1904
HERE LIES the Body of THO MAS BLOWN
wn.who depat
!1
Tombstone of Jno. H. Washington Tombstone of Archibald Washington
Tombstone of Thos. Brown Founder of Brownsville
History of Brownsville
WHERE LOCATED-EARLY SETTLERS -- CRESAP'S FERRY --- CRESAP EXONER- ATED OF KILLING LOGAN'S FAMILY -- THOMAS AND BASIL BROWN - BROWNSVILLE LAID OUT AND INCORPORATED-FIRST BOROUGH OFFICIALS -PRESENT BOROUGH OFFICIALS-POSTMASTERS WHO HAVE SERVED AT BROWNSVILLE- EARLY FIRE PROTECTION-OLD CEMETERIES- REDSTONE CEMETERY-FIRST AND PRESENT OFFICIALS-RULES OF THE CEMETERY-ENDOWMENT FUND-NOT RUN FOR PROFIT OF STOCK- HOLDERS-LADIES OF THE ROUND TABLE.
WHERE LOCATED.
Almost every historical record that we have been able to find refers to Brownsville as being at the mouth of Redstone Creek and as is well known, the relic of the mound-builders and the later Fort Burd are described as being at the mouth of Redstone. In fact the name of Redstone was given to the mound of the prehistoric race who lived and labored here long before Colum- bus sighted the new world, and yet it is not at the mouth of Redstone at all but at the mouth of Nemacolin Creek, which name was also appropriated by Colonel Dunlap, thus making it Dunlap's Creek, when in fact it should have been Nemacolin Creek. If history related absolute facts it would say that early emigration steered for Nemacolin Creek instead of for Redstone and Redstone Old Fort, woukl be recorded Nemacolin Old Fort. The mouth of Redstone is fully a mile from Redstone Old Fort and from Brownsville, while Nemacolin Creek passes right under the shadow of the point on which the old fort and later Fort Burd, were built, and on which the principal part of the original Brownsville stands.
EARLY SETTLERS.
The first settlers within the territory that is now within the corporate limits of Brownsville, were James Crawford, Abraham Tegard, John Province. John Hardin and Michael Cresap. It seems that Cresap is the only one who made any effort to establish a claim to the land. He took up a "Tomahawk Claim," that is, he blazed a number of trees and built a cabin of logs and covered it with shingles "nailed on," which bears the distinction of being the first house so constructed west of the Allegheny mountains. On the strength of this he secured a Virginia title to a large tract of land including the old fort of the mound-builders known as "Redstone Old Fort, on the site of which Colonel James Burd, in 1759, built Fort Burd.
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Cresap's Ferry
CRESAP'S FERRY.
February 23, 1775, Michael Cresap was authorized by the Virginia court to keep or run a ferry on the Monongahela River at Redstone Old Fort or rather between that place and the land of Indian Peter on the opposite side of the river where West Brownsville now stands. Cresap seems to have established the ferry but as he died that fall, the ferry fell into other hands, whose is not definitely known, but the records of the Fayette County courts in 1788 disclose the fact that at that time it was in the hands of one of the Gillespies. The landing on this side of the river was at a point in front of the United States Hotel, now the Albion Hotel. The ferry continued here till the National Road was completed in 1820 when it was moved up the river to Bridgeport where the present steamboat landing now is and where it continued to ply till the wooden bridge was finished in 1833.
It may not be out of order here to mention that there was another ferry located farther up the river, that plied between a point in front of where Solomon G. Krepps, Sr., now resides, in Bridgeport, and the old stone house on the West Brownsville side, located near the Sam Thompson distillery. The old stone house was then a tavern and was the property of the Krepps'. The ferry was established by John Krepps in 1794 and continued till some time after the Monongahela bridge was completed. Towards the end of its days it was run by steam.
CRESAP EXONERATED OF KILLING LOGAN'S FAMILY.
Mr. Cresap is the man who was accused of killing the family of Logan, the Indian chief. Captain Cresap took active part in the Indian troubles about Pittsburg and Wheeling in 1774 and in the summer of 1775 led a company of riflemen from Maryland to Cambridge, Mass., to join General Washington. A part of this company was enlisted from Fayette County or what is now Fayette County. Captain Cresap took sick shortly after reaching Cambridge and started home but when he reached New York he was unable to proceed farther. He remained in New York till October of that year when he died. His son Michael and John J. Jacob who had been a clerk in his store and who afterwards married his widow, were the executors of his estate, and it was largely through them that his name has been entirely cleared of the odium that attached to it on account of the murder of the Logan family. They proved conclusively that he was not in that section of the country when the murder occurred.
THOMAS AND BASIL BROWN.
Michael Cresap sold his land to Thomas and Basil Brown some years later, who in 1785 laid out the original town of Brownsville. A public square was left open on the south side of Front street and between this and the river a
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burial ground was reserved. In this burial ground Thomas Brown was finally laid to rest in 1797 and until quite recently the stone marking his grave was still standing and engraved on it were these words: "Here lies the body of Thomas Brown, who was once the owner of this town, who departed this life March S, 1797, aged 89 years." In this same ancient cemetery were buried two brothers of George Washington.
BROWNSVILLE LAID OUT AND INCORPORATED.
While Brownsville was laid out in 1785 and at once commenced its phe- nomenal growth both in population and industry, it was not incorporated till 1815. The Act of Assembly by which it was incorporated was passed December 14, 1814, and approved January 9, 1815. An election was held at the house of Jacob Coplan on the first Tuesday of April of the latter year and the following borough officers were elected:
FIRST BOROUGH OFFICIALS.
Thomas Mckibben, chief burgess; Philip Shaffner, assistant burgess ; William Hogg, Basil Brashear, John S Duncan, John McCadden, George Hogg, Jr., Israel Miller and George Dawson, councilmen; John Jaques, high constable. In 1817 Brownsville township was constituted being taken from Redstone township. The number of taxpayers at the time Brownsville was incorporated is given as 234.
PRESENT BOROUGH OFFICIALS.
BURGESS : William H. Fisher.
COUNCIL : Harry Kisinger, president: Benj. Hibbs, Charles L. Snowdon,
Edgar T. Brashear, A. A. Carmack, W. A. Griffin, Jas. F. Collier.
SECRETARY OF COUNCIL: Charles W. Coulter.
TREASURER : Monongahela Bank.
ASSESSOR : Edw. Delaney.
AUDITORS: W. A. Griffin, J. Howard Snowdon, Edw. Delaney.
TAX COLLECTOR: George C. Steele.
POLICEMEN : A. C. Patterson, chief; Alex. Labin, Clyde Worcester.
CONSTABLE : George N. Porter.
STREET COMMISSIONER: Jesse Johnson.
SCHOOL DIRECTORS: W. A. Edmiston, president; W. L. Lenhart, secre- tary: J. A. Houston, Harry Kisinger, C. L. Snowdon, Frank Gabler, Frank Gadd, Charles M. Gregg, William Acklin, Charles Storey. Benj. F. Hibbs. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE: Charles W. Bowman, William L. Lenhart.
HEALTHI BOARD: Dr. C. C. Reichard, President; Dr. Louis N. Reichard, Secretary; Dr. Colley Miller. S. S. Graham, Samuel E. Taylor.
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POSTMASTERS WHO HAVE SERVED BROWNSVILLE.
The post office at Brownsville was established January 1, 1795. The following is a list of the postmasters with the date of their appointments:
Jacob Bowman, January 1, 1795.
Martin Tiernan, April 29, 1829.
Margaret Tiernan, December 6, 1834.
William G. Roberts, December 12, 1838.
William Sloan, July 10, 1841.
Henry J. Rigden, June 4, 1845.
William Sloan (second time) May 11, 1849.
Isaac Bailey, May 18, 1853.
Samuel Snowden, March 13, 1861.
Oliver P. Baldwin, March 7, 1865.
Henry Bulger, April 9, 1869.
John S. Wilgus, April 9, 1873.
J. Nelson Snowdon, January 23, 1878.
Holmes Patton.
W. A. McCormick.
W. C. Steele, February 15, 1899.
EARLY FIRE PROTECTION
Brownsville has never had a fire department, nor has there ever been in the borough any efficient organization furnished with adequate apparatus and appliances for the extinguishment of fires, though at least three of the old- style hand fire engines have been purchased. The date of the purchase of the first of these has not been ascertained for the reason that no borough records can be found covering the period from March, 1821, to August, 1840, as before mentioned. That the borough was in possession of the engine house, and therefore, presumably, an engine, prior to the latter date, is shown by the fact that at that time a bill was presented and allowed by the board "for painting the engine house."
On the 12th of October, 1842, the petition of about fifty citizens was pre- sented "praying the council to provide suitable means to guard against the accident of fire, and to take a loan for the purpose of defraying the necessary expenses thereof." At the same time a committee was appointed to examine the three springs at the head of the town with a view to the construction and supply of a reservoir, and to report on the same. On the 17th of the same month the committee reported that to "construct a reservoir, at the spring above Workman's, thirty feet square and twelve feet deep, to cover the same and to bring the water through iron pipes to Brashear's Alley, will cost about one thousand dollars; and for each additional foot of pipe, and laying the same, one dollar thirty-seven and a half cents." Also that fire plugs should be put in at each square, costing, by estimation, forty dollars. George Dawson was instructed by
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Chas. Bowman's Vard - Nemacolin Castle
the council to confer with the heirs of Neal Gillespie to ascertain what they would charge for land for the reservoir. On the 24th of October, Mr. Dawson reported that permission to build the reservoir could not be obtained.
October 17th, 1842, council resolved "that Robert Rogers and Edward Hughes be and they are hereby appointed a committee to contract for a fire engine." October 20th, Robert Rogers was appointed to contract for four ladders-two of twenty feet and two of sixteen feet in length-and for six fire hooks.
January 12, 1843, "the president, Mr. Robert Rogers, was appointed to contract with some one to build an engine house at the west end of the market house." On the 17th of the same month, "Robert Rogers, president, re- ported that he had articled with Faull & Herbertson for a fire engine for three hundred and fifty dollars," and two days later he reported that he "had contracted with John Johnson to build the engine house."
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