Rev. John Brown Sr. ¹

   FamilySearch ID: LJ5K-5GX.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Arrival: 1795, in Toboyne Twp., Cumberland, PA.

2. Arrival: 1816, in , Harrison, OH. ¹

3. Census in 1820 in Freeport, Harrison, OH. ² The 1820 census recorded John Brown with this household:
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 3.

4. Book: Portrait and Biographical Record of Montgomery, Parke and Fountain Counties, Indiana: William Brown, 1893. ¹
William Brown was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Aug 12, 1814. His father was the Rev. John Brown, also a native of PA and of German antecedents. He was educated for the ministry and preached a number of years. In 1816 he removed to Harrison Co, Ohio whence he came to this state with his family and soon after died in Bartholomew County where he had settled. Our subject was but eight when his father died. The family then went to Floyd County and subsequently to Tippecanoe County. [See son William Brown for rest of William's biography.].

5. Fact: Info on Brown Family from Hoobler.com (Jacob Hoober married Anna Margaret Brown), 2020. ³ Jacob Hoobler I was born about 1775 and died 1813. Jacob's marriage to Anna Margaret Brown took place on June 10, 1794 at Trinity Church in Tulpehocken Township, with Rev. William Hendell performing the ceremony. During the latter part of that year, there was a migration of German settlers (now Americans), to central Pennsylvania. John Hoobler, his sons and their families, the Browns and others of our ancestral lines including the Reeds and Dices, left the Tulpehocken ( Berks County ) to seek better farmland in central Pennsylvania. By 1795, the Browns and Hooblers were in Toboyne Township, Cumberland County Pennsylvania, which is now called Perry County, near Harrisburg.

Ten children were born to Jacob I and Margaret, and then tragedy struck. Jacob died suddenly, leaving no will. The last child, Michael, was born in 1813 the year Jacob died. Jacob had been a farmer; his widow was assessed 125 acres of land in 1820. Court records, including the inventory of the estate; the letters of administration to widow "Rebecca" Margaret Hoobler and her brother, Peter Brown, and the division of the estate are available. Each child was to receive $105.46, with an additional $54.65 to be paid upon the death of the mother. The estate was settled in late 1822, and then Margaret and the Browns joined in the movement to Ohio. Both Adam and Michael Hoobler and their families had left for Ohio the year Jacob I died. Jacob was buried in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Several of Margaret's children were now married. The families went to Taylor's Creek (West of Cincinnati) then on to Fountain County, Indiana, to a bend in the Wabash River called "the forks of Coal Creek". The history of the United Brethren Church reveals many details of her life.

John married Elizabeth Gottshall. (Elizabeth Gottshall was born on 19 Jun 1771 in , Berks, PA,⁴ died on 24 Aug 1849 in , Tippecanoe, IN ⁴ and was buried in West Lafayette: Shambaugh Cemetery, Tippecanoe, IN ⁴.)