Snyder Family 2016 - Person Sheet
NameMargaret A. Leeper 
Birthabt 1798, Tennessee87
Death19 Sep 1864, Dade Co., Missouri
Alias/AKAMargret [1850 Census “Head Of Household”]
Spouses
Marriageabt 1819
ChildrenJames (~1820-~1856)
Malinda E. (~1823-1856)
Hugh Fulton (1826-1863)
Malissa (1830-)
Ann Amanda (~1832-)
John L. (~1835-<1864)
Rutha J. (1837-1919)
Unknown (1838-)
Francis A. (~1840-)
Eliza Evelyn (1841-)
Notes for Margaret A. Leeper
Hi Craig,
I wanted to contact you about some information that I found about Margaret Brown. I found the death certificate for her daughter Rutha J. Brown (Williams) and on the death certificate they list her mother's maiden name as Leeper. After doing some further research it appears that there could be Brown-Leeper marriages for a couple of generations. Also, Eliza Brown was living with Jane A. Leeper and Henry C. Small in 1850. I would guess there is some kind of family connection since Hugh Brown named his son Henry Small Brown. There is also a Alexander Leeper living next to Melinda Brown (Lasley) in the 1860 Census. I hope some of this information will help make more connections to other Brown relatives and tie up some loose ends. Thank you for all of the work you did on our family line back to the Boones, it made it a lot easier to build my family tree. And I appreciate all of the information that you provided to my mom, Nancy, when she was taking her geneology classes. All of the information has been very useful to our family. The death certificate that I found for Rutha Brown has been added to my tree in ancestory.com and is availble for others to download. I hope that you find this useful.
Mark
April, 2013 - Ancestry.com
mlbrueheim originally submitted this to Brueheim Family Tree on 23 Apr 2013
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On the possiblility of her name being Margaret A. Carter ... no way ... that was her Margaret’s Daughter in Law [married to Hugh Brown].
Pat Scott <pat.scott@comcast.net
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin...-95667&id=I19789
tamara@bearsandhares.com
2003-04-24 00:57:48
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin...240440&id=I13282
I've never seen a maiden name for Alexander's wife before and think it's odd (and perhaps a typo) that her name is listed as the same as Alexander's son, Hugh T. Brown. I also think that the male son and Francis are one and the same. In the 1840 census there are two sons under 5 (Francis and John L.), a son 10-15 (Hugh) and a son 15-20 (James). Although Francis is listed as a female in the 1850 census, he is listed as a son of Margaret Brown's in her probate papers.
1860 Census:
Margaret is listed as:
being 62 years old [that would make her birth year 1798]
Living with daughter, Rutha, age 23
Living in between 2 of her sons, Hugh F. Brown and John L. Brown
I wanted to contact you about some information that I found about Margaret Brown. I found the death certificate for her daughter Rutha J. Brown (Williams) and on the death certificate they list her mother's maiden name as Leeper. After doing some further research it appears that there could be Brown-Leeper marriages for a couple of generations. Also, Eliza Brown was living with Jane A. Leeper and Henry C. Small in 1850. I would guess there is some kind of family connection since Hugh Brown named his son Henry Small Brown. There is also a Alexander Leeper living next to Melinda Brown (Lasley) in the 1860 Census. I hope some of this information will help make more connections to other Brown relatives and tie up some loose ends. Thank you for all of the work you did on our family line back to the Boones, it made it a lot easier to build my family tree. And I appreciate all of the information that you provided to my mom, Nancy, when she was taking her geneology classes. All of the information has been very useful to our family. The death certificate that I found for Rutha Brown has been added to my tree in ancestory.com and is availble for others to download. I hope that you find this useful.
Mark
April, 2013 - Ancestry.com
mlbrueheim originally submitted this to Brueheim Family Tree on 23 Apr 2013
-----------
On the possiblility of her name being Margaret A. Carter ... no way ... that was her Margaret’s Daughter in Law [married to Hugh Brown].
Pat Scott <pat.scott@comcast.net
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin...-95667&id=I19789
tamara@bearsandhares.com
2003-04-24 00:57:48
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin...240440&id=I13282
I've never seen a maiden name for Alexander's wife before and think it's odd (and perhaps a typo) that her name is listed as the same as Alexander's son, Hugh T. Brown. I also think that the male son and Francis are one and the same. In the 1840 census there are two sons under 5 (Francis and John L.), a son 10-15 (Hugh) and a son 15-20 (James). Although Francis is listed as a female in the 1850 census, he is listed as a son of Margaret Brown's in her probate papers.
1860 Census:
Margaret is listed as:
being 62 years old [that would make her birth year 1798]
Living with daughter, Rutha, age 23
Living in between 2 of her sons, Hugh F. Brown and John L. Brown
Notes for Alexander (Spouse 1)
possibly in Stewart Co., TN in 1809 may have been in Hardin Co., TN
88Hi Craig,
I finally sent off a letter to the man that submitted the Brown info to the LDS site - this was his response that I received today.
88Hi [living person] [to Hugh F.’s brother John descendant]: . . . . . Got your letter today and from the sheets you must be from the John L. branch. I haven't done any work on the family history for about 5 years now. I only found one census on Alexander stating he was born in Tenn. By piecing together family lore and filling in the blank spots with some guessing I came up with a pretty strong clue that he was a Cherokee Indian. His son, Hugh F. Brown (John's brother) married a Margaret Carter whose father was a wealthy farmer. He hired some outlaws by the name of Harshbarger to kill Hugh because he was upset with his daughter marrying an Indian. Another thing is that Alexander may have had to give up his Indian heritage to buy land. I have heard that many Indians had to do this back then. Your John L. was probably full Cherokee. I want to thank you for the info on John L. because I had very little on him. All my older relatives are dead and cannot provide any help. I will try to look up some documents and pictures for you as soon as I can.
Jim
Craig -
I found your message while searching for information about your 2nd great-grandfather Hugh F. Brown, who was brother-in-law to my 3rd great-grandfather Rolla Carter. I have a little information for you - first off, it appears that Hugh was unfortunately "killed by bushwhackers during the Civil War when a man on horseback came riding up and shot him while he, Ben Johnson, and Ben's little sister were all cutting wood. Ben was thirteen years old at the time and related this story many times" (from Vinita Carter Miller's 1983 book The History of the Caleb Carter Family, page 201). I am currently searching for more details on this murder as well as similar killings of two of his Carter brothers-in-law (John and Andrew) within an 18-month period in 1862-63.
I don't have any information on Hugh Brown's ancestry, except that Mrs. Miller's book gives Hugh's mother's first name as Margaret, but I have the following on his family (all from the Miller book as well):
Hugh F. Brown, b. April 20, 1826, d. August 10, 1863 in Dade County, MO, buried "under two cedar trees in Grantham's Field," Dade County, MO. He married Margaret Carter on March 22, 1855, in Greene County, MO (Marriage Book B). Margaret was born September 11, 1834, in Monroe County, TN, the daughter of Caleb Carter (c. 1796 - November 22, 1861) and Nancy Ferguson (c. 1796 - June 30, 1875). Margaret died December 16, 1882. Their children were:
Thomas Kell Brown, b. January 29, 1857 (m. Sarah A. Parker September 25, 1881)
John Fulton Brown, b. October 29, 1858
Nancy Elizabeth Brown, b. April 8, 1860, d. October 30, 1983 (m. John Wesley Pierce)
Hugh Sterl Brown, b. circa 1862
Henry Small Brown, b. April 12, 1863, d. March 1, 1943) (m. Alice Belle Pierce November 15, 1883)
Please e-mail me at ceollaigh@juno.com if you would like me to make copies of the relevant pages in the Miller book for you.
Your 4th cousin once removed,
Kelly
89...Oh here are my notes on the Brown lead mines...they supplied bullets
during the Civil War.....
The Browns owned and operated the first led mines in the county near Ash Grove, these Browns for three generations continued to dig in these mines for years. They would put out a crop, then about cultivating time, they would go back digging in the mine, and let the weeds take the crop. They had a cave-in at one shaft one year, they dug and worked to dig it out as one of the young men was trapped in there, but finally gave up, just piled a few rocks at the entrance and said a prayer, then went on home. Ray's body is still in that old mine."
88Hi Craig,
I finally sent off a letter to the man that submitted the Brown info to the LDS site - this was his response that I received today.
88Hi [living person] [to Hugh F.’s brother John descendant]: . . . . . Got your letter today and from the sheets you must be from the John L. branch. I haven't done any work on the family history for about 5 years now. I only found one census on Alexander stating he was born in Tenn. By piecing together family lore and filling in the blank spots with some guessing I came up with a pretty strong clue that he was a Cherokee Indian. His son, Hugh F. Brown (John's brother) married a Margaret Carter whose father was a wealthy farmer. He hired some outlaws by the name of Harshbarger to kill Hugh because he was upset with his daughter marrying an Indian. Another thing is that Alexander may have had to give up his Indian heritage to buy land. I have heard that many Indians had to do this back then. Your John L. was probably full Cherokee. I want to thank you for the info on John L. because I had very little on him. All my older relatives are dead and cannot provide any help. I will try to look up some documents and pictures for you as soon as I can.
Jim
Craig -
I found your message while searching for information about your 2nd great-grandfather Hugh F. Brown, who was brother-in-law to my 3rd great-grandfather Rolla Carter. I have a little information for you - first off, it appears that Hugh was unfortunately "killed by bushwhackers during the Civil War when a man on horseback came riding up and shot him while he, Ben Johnson, and Ben's little sister were all cutting wood. Ben was thirteen years old at the time and related this story many times" (from Vinita Carter Miller's 1983 book The History of the Caleb Carter Family, page 201). I am currently searching for more details on this murder as well as similar killings of two of his Carter brothers-in-law (John and Andrew) within an 18-month period in 1862-63.
I don't have any information on Hugh Brown's ancestry, except that Mrs. Miller's book gives Hugh's mother's first name as Margaret, but I have the following on his family (all from the Miller book as well):
Hugh F. Brown, b. April 20, 1826, d. August 10, 1863 in Dade County, MO, buried "under two cedar trees in Grantham's Field," Dade County, MO. He married Margaret Carter on March 22, 1855, in Greene County, MO (Marriage Book B). Margaret was born September 11, 1834, in Monroe County, TN, the daughter of Caleb Carter (c. 1796 - November 22, 1861) and Nancy Ferguson (c. 1796 - June 30, 1875). Margaret died December 16, 1882. Their children were:
Thomas Kell Brown, b. January 29, 1857 (m. Sarah A. Parker September 25, 1881)
John Fulton Brown, b. October 29, 1858
Nancy Elizabeth Brown, b. April 8, 1860, d. October 30, 1983 (m. John Wesley Pierce)
Hugh Sterl Brown, b. circa 1862
Henry Small Brown, b. April 12, 1863, d. March 1, 1943) (m. Alice Belle Pierce November 15, 1883)
Please e-mail me at ceollaigh@juno.com if you would like me to make copies of the relevant pages in the Miller book for you.
Your 4th cousin once removed,
Kelly
89...Oh here are my notes on the Brown lead mines...they supplied bullets
during the Civil War.....
The Browns owned and operated the first led mines in the county near Ash Grove, these Browns for three generations continued to dig in these mines for years. They would put out a crop, then about cultivating time, they would go back digging in the mine, and let the weeds take the crop. They had a cave-in at one shaft one year, they dug and worked to dig it out as one of the young men was trapped in there, but finally gave up, just piled a few rocks at the entrance and said a prayer, then went on home. Ray's body is still in that old mine."