Fayette County PA Archives History .....George Washington Brown Family History 1921
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Geo W. Brown says he went to housekeeping Apr 6, 1868 in the old stone house 
opposite the church (which was built for F.H. Oliphant's mother) & lived there 
38 yrs & then moved here.  Says he has kept house 53 yrs & hasn't paid $53 
doctor bills in all that time & has a great grandchild & have never had a 
death in the family.  He says Mrs Greenlee used to tell him who old Mrs 
Oliphant was, says she came from Balto & is buried with her husband by the 
Duncan monument & their names are on the markers.
Mr Brown says the Strickler name came in the family from the mother of Eliza 
Longanecker, wife of Benjamin Rotharmel, who was a Strickler.  His mother, 
that is Benj. F. Brown's wife was a sister of Thos W. Lyons & their father was 
John Lyons & he in turn was a son of William Lyons who married a Dils.
Benj F. Brown died Feby 23, 1906.  He was born Aug 22, 1816 & is buried at 
Smithfield.  Has even 100 acres in this farm.
Benj F. Brown's father, Joshua Brown died in the 30s or 40s, he thought & his 
wife, who was an Akers lived to be 100 yrs old dying at the Campbells in 
Smithfield, Pa.
Mr Brown said his father had the plat which was burned when his house was 
burned laying out this ground as a County seat for Yohogany Co VA as 
Mifflinburg when they thought Virginia extended to Pgh & later old Mr 
Woodbridge came from Battle & it might be that old Mrs Oliphant was his 
daughter.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from Josiah V. Thompson Journals, Vol. 4, pg 274

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