Re: BROWNING Family Tree Site - NEW
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Re: BROWNING Family Tree Site - NEW
Camilia Brandt 1/06/04
From: Joy [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 10:03 AM
To: www.the [email protected]
Subject: Franklins/Brownings/Whaleys
Hi Cam,
How great to hear from you.I have been researching the Whaley's all the way back to "Old Hercules Whaley" in New York in the 1700's and possibly back to 1064, for the last ten years.When I got to the Franklin/Browning connection I hit a brick wall.William Henry Browning was the father of Lucy Annie Browning, mother of my grandmother, Martha Ada Franklin. Ada married Trouse Lamar Whaley and Fanny (Frances) Whaley was his sister. I have most of the information from the Coker cemetery, but very little from the Illinois Bend Cemetery.
The ancester that I know the least about is Trouse and Fanny's mother, Cara Augusta Lamar Whaley.
She was married to John Trousedale Whaley. They are buried in the Coker Cemetery. I have one tiny portrait of her. She directly relately to Mirabeau Bonapart Lamar, 2nd President of Texas. I wonder if Harold has has any information about her.She would be his grandmother.She died when my grandfather Trouse Whaley was in the 3rd grade, so he never met her, but maybe Aunt Fanny had some information or pictures of her.
The other ghost is Mell Franklin, who married Lucy Annie Franklin.I cannot find any background on him. He was Martha Ada's Father.I know he came from Mississippi to Kaufman, Texas and then blank wall, except that he is buried in the Coker Cemetery.I also know that between the previous marriages and their own marriages they raised 19 living children.
Some of my most wonderful memories were of the summers I spent with on my grandparent's farm. My mother, Thelma Whaley Bowles and I visited many "graveyard workins" at both cemeteries.I remember Harold, well. Mom and I visited Harold, Henry and Alpha, Vera and Pudd and Ethel in West Texas twice, and also when they came to visit Aunt Fanny and Gladys at her farm.
I would ride my horse from my grndparent's farm to Aunt Fannie's and help her pick peaches and snap beans.I would chase her cows up and help her doctor them and chase chickens out of her yard.When we would all get together at her house, she would keep us kids busy by giving us a penny for each fly we killed on the porch.
Aunt Fanny had very thin hair and it was very long.When I was at her house she would wash her hair and we would sit on the porch and comb it until it dried, then I would braid it and roll the braid into a little bun on the back of her neck.The braid would be about two feet long and about as big around as a pencil.Once in a while Fanny, Ada, Lorene, and several of the other sisters and cousins would lower the quilting frame from the ceiling in Fanny's living room and they would quilt and gossip.I would sit under the quilt and sew patches together or pump the tredle on the sewing machine.Needles to say I loved all of them dearly.
If you can help me in any way, I would appreciate it.Do you live in West Texas?I have lived in Spring, Texas, North of Houston for 20 years, but my heart will always be in North Texas.
Thank you for answering my request, I needed to hear from that side of the family.
Joy Lamar Whaley Bowles Woods
Browning, Franklin