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Subject: Re: [RHEA-L] John Ray of Rockingham, VA
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 13:28:59 EDT
I received this on another mailing list; thought it might be of assistance to
someone.
Samuel Brown Coyner, who is a Civil War hero in the Valley, was named for his
mother's father - Married to Addison Coyner, Elizabeth Brown was daughter of
the Rev. John Brown of Rockingham County. "Father Brown" as he was called, was
a minister of the Gospel of the German Reformed Presbyterian Church for whom
"Brown Chapel" of that county was named. He was the oldest son of Harman Brown
of Bremen, Germany, and came to the US in 1799, born 7/21/1771, md. Elizabeth
Fall, and died in Bridgewater VA 1/26/1850; having preached for over 50 years
and being master of five different languages, preaching in English and German.
Elizabeth Brown was sister of Mary, the wife of Archibald Coyner of this
branch, died in Colorado Springs CO in 1892 where she had gone to live with a
daughter.
Addison and Archibald were sons of Martin Luther Coyner (son of Michael
Keinadt born 1722 in Germany). Martin md. Elizabeth Rhea, a Scotch-Irish
Presbyterian and this family attended Mossy Creek Presbyterian Church in Mossy
Creek, near Spring Creek on the northern border of Augusta with Rockingham.
The other recorded Browns in this family are marriages occurring after 1900.
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