Luckily most of our Maryland ancestors were Quaker and, thus, meticulous record keepers. In this post I have traced each family connection as far back as I could and pinpointed the initial emigrants to America in the Brooke, Johns, Snowden, and Thomas families. As you see I still have a way to go filling in the blanks and will update this post as I continue my research. [Originally posted 8/26/09; updated 10/13/09.]
Genealogy notations:
b. - born
d. - died
bur. - buried
m. - married
m1. - first marriage
m2. - second marriage
div. - divorced
Names appear as First Middle "Nickname" LAST.
Dates appear as Day Month Year (1 Jan 1900).
Blanks indicate missing information.
Connections between generations appear in green.
Initial emigrants and arrival information appears in red.
1st Generation
Robert BROOKE, son of ____________, b. 3 Jun 1602, arrived in Maryland from England on 29 Jun 1650, d. 20 Jul 1655, m1. Mary BAKER, daughter of ________, b. ___, 4 children, d. ___, m2. Mary MAINWARING, daughter of Roger MAINWARING, b. ___, 10 children, d. 29 Nov 1663
1. Baker BROOKE b. 16 Nov 1628, d. ___
2. Mary BROOKE b. 19 Feb 1630/1, d. ___
3. Thomas BROOKE b. 23 Jun 1632, d. ___
4. Barnaby BROOKE b. ___, d. ___
5. Charles BROOKE b. 3 Apr 1636, d. ___
6. Roger BROOKE, Sr. b. 20 Sept 1637, d. 8 Apr 1700, m1. Dorothy NEALE, m2. Mary WOLSLEY
7. Robert BROOKE b. 21 Apr 1639, d. ___
8. John BROOKE b. 20 Sept 1640, d. ___
9. Mary BROOKE b. 14 Apr 1642, d. ___
10. Ann BROOKE b. 22 Jan 1645/6, d. ___
11. Frances BROOKE b. 30 May 1648, d. ___
12. Elizabeth & Henry (twins) BROOKE b. 28 Nov 1652, d. ___
13. Basil BROOKE b. 1651, d. 1651 (same day)
Hugh KENSEY, son of _______________, b. ___, d. ___, m. Margaret ___________, daughter of ____________, b. ___, d. ___
1. Elizabeth KENSEY b. ___, d. 1 Feb 1715/16, m1. Thomas SPARROW (d. 1674/5), m2. Richard JOHNS
2nd Generation
Roger BROOKE, Sr., son of Robert BROOKE and Mary MAINWARING, b. 20 Sept 1637 at Bretonew (Brecknock) College, England, d. 8 Apr 1700, bur. at Battel Creek Plantation, MD, m1. Dorothy NEALE, daughter of ________, b. ___, mother of Roger BROOKE, Jr., d. ___, m2. Mary WOLSLEY, daughter of ________, b. ___, mother of Cassandra and Mary BROOKE, d. ___
1. Roger BROOKE, Jr. b. 12 Apr 1673, d. ___, m. Eliza HUTCHINS
2. Cassandra BROOKE
3. Mary BROOKE
William COALE, son of __________, b. ___, d. 30 Oct 1678 , minister of Society of Friends, resided in Anne Arundel County, m1. Hester ---, b. ___, 1 child, d. ___, m2. Hannah ---, b. ___, 1 child, d. 20 Nov 1669, m3. Elizabeth THOMAS, daughter of Philip THOMAS and Sarah HARRISON, b. ___, 3 children, (after William COALE's death, Elizabeth THOMAS married Edward TALBOT), d. __ 1726 (see Note A)
1. William COALE b. 21 Sept 1655, d. __ 1700, m. Eliza SKIPWITH +
2. William COALE, Jr. b. 20 Oct 1667, d. __ 1715, m. Elizabeth SPARROW +
3. Elizabeth COALE b. 30 Aug 1671, d. ___, m. Nathan SMITH
4. Philip COALE b. 6 Sept 1673, d. ___, m. Cassandra SKIPWITH
5. Samuel COALE b. 9 Apr 1676, d. ___
[+ Need to research further which William Coale was the father of Elizabeth Jane Coale, daughter of William and Eliza Coale, b. 1692, d. 1713, m. Richard Snowden the Youngest]
Garrard (Gerard) "Planter" HOPKINS, son of ___________, b. ___, d. ___, made will 12 Oct 1691 describing property in Anne Arundel Co., m. Tomsin ---, b. ___, d. ___
1. Gerrard HOPKINS b. ___, d. __ Jan 1743/4, m. Margaret JOHNS
2. Ann HOPKINS b. ___, d. ___
3. Thomson HOPKINS (f.) b. ___, d. ___
4. Mary HOPKINS b. ___, d. ___
Francis HUTCHINS, son of _____________, b. ___, d. ___, made will 20 Feb 1698/9 in Calvert County where he was a Burgess, m. Elizabeth ---, b. ___, d. ___
1. John HUTCHINS b. ___, d.___
2. Margaret HUTCHINS b. ___, d. ___, m. Abraham JOHNS
3. Eliza HUTCHINS b. ___, d. ___, m. Roger BROOKE, Jr.
4. Sarah HUTCHINS b. ___, d. ___, m. Nehemia BIRCKHEAD
5. Frances HUTCHINS, b. ___, d. ___
6. Priscilla HUTCHINS b. ___, d. ___, m. Richard JOHNS
7. Mary HUTCHINS b. ___, d. ___, m. Benjamin HANCE
Richard JOHNS, son of __________, b. ___, d. ___, arrived in Maryland from Bristol, England in 1675, settled near Calvert Cliffs, m. Elizabeth KENSEY, widow of Thomas SPARROW (d. 1674/5), daughter of Hugh and Margaret KENSEY, b. ___, d. 1 Feb 1715/16
1. Thomas SPARROW b. ___, d. ___, m1. Ann BURGES, m2. Sophia RICHARDSON
2. Elizabeth SPARROW b. ___, d. ___, m. William COALE
3. Abraham JOHNS b. 24 Jun 1677, d. 10 Dec 1707, m. Margaret HUTCHINS
4. Aquilla JOHNS b. 30 Sept 1679, d. 11 May 1682
5. Priscilla JOHNS b. 21 Mar 1681/2, d. 1 Apr 1725, m. Robert ROBERTS
6. Margaret JOHNS b. 11 Oct 1683, d. ___, m. Gerrard HOPKINS
7. Aquilla JOHNS b. 5 Feb 1684/5, d. 16 Jan 1709, m. Mary HOZIER
8. Richard JOHNS b. 4 Apr 1687, d. 16 Aug 1719, m. Priscilla HUTCHINS
9. Kensey JOHNS b. 12 July 1689, d. 2 Apr 1729, m. Elizabeth CHEW
10. Isaac JOHNS b. 10 May 1692, d. 29 Nov 1728, m. Ann GALLOWAY
11. Elizabeth JOHNS b. 26 May 1694, d. 19 Dec 1772, m1. Henry TROTH, m2. John STEVENS
Sir George SKIPWITH, son of _________, b. ___, d. ___, m. Elizabeth ___________, daughter of ______________, b. ___, d. ___
1. Cassandra SKIPWITH b. 29 Oct 1678, d. ___, m. Philip COALE
Richard SNOWDEN Sr., son of ____, b. ___ 1640, Birmingham, England, emigrated to Maryland in 1659, d. ___ 1711, m1. Deborah ABBOTT b. ____, d. ____; m2. Elizabeth GROSSE b.____, d. __ 1675
1. Richard SNOWDEN, b. __ 1666, d. __ 1720, m. Mary LINTHICUM
Philip THOMAS, son of Evan THOMAS of Swanslea, Glamorganshire, Wales, b. circa 1600, Bristol, England, d. ___, made will 9 Sept 1674, arrived in Maryland from England in 1651, settled near West River, m. Sarah HARRISON, daughter of ___________, b.___, d. __ 1687
1. Philip THOMAS, Jr. b. ___, d. bef. 1688
2. Sarah THOMAS b. ___, d. __ 1675, m. John MEARS
3. Elizabeth THOMAS b. ___, d. __ 1726, m1. William COALE, m2. Edward TALBOT (see Note A)
4. Martha THOMAS b. ___, d. bef 1688, m. Richard ARNELL (or ARNOLD)
5. Samuel THOMAS b. circa 1655, d. bef. 10 Feb 1743, m. Mary HUTCHINS
3rd Generation
Roger BROOKE, Jr., son of Roger BROOKE Sr. and Dorothy NEALE, b. 12 Apr 1673, d. ___, m. 23 Feb 1702 Eliza HUTCHINS, daughter of Francis and Elizabeth HUTCHINS, b. ___, d. ___
1. Roger BROOK III b. 3 Dec 1703, d. 28 May 1705
2. James BROOKE b. 21 Feb 1705, d. ___, m. Deborah SNOWDEN
3. Eliza BROOKE b. 23 Nov 1707, d. ___
4. Dorothy BROOKE b. 3 Jul 1709, d. ___
5. Mary BROOKE b. 29 Dec 1710, d. ___
6. Ann BROOKE b. 29 Mar 1712, d. ___
7. Roger BROOKE b. 10 Jun 1714, d. ___
8. Cassandra BROOKE b. 3 Apr 1716, d. ___
9. Priscilla & Basil (twins) BROOKE b. 16 Nov 1717, d. ___
Philip COALE, son of William COALE and Elizabeth THOMAS, b. 6 Sept 1673, officer in British army, d. ___, m. 6 Apr 1697 Cassandra SKIPWITH, daughter of Sir George SKIPWITH and Elizabeth ---, b. 29 Oct 1678, d. ___
1. Cassandra COALE b. ___, d. ___
2. Elizabeth COALE b. ___, d. ___
3. Skipwith COALE b. ___, d. bef. 1759, m. Margaret HOLLAND
William COALE, son of William COALE and _________, b. ___, d. ___, m. Eliza ___________, daughter of ______________, b. ___, d. ___
1. Elizabeth Jane COALE b. ___ 1692, d. ___ 1713, m. Richard Snowden the Youngest
Gerrard HOPKINS, son of Garrard (Gerard) HOPKINS and Tomsin ---, b. ___, d. __ Jan 1743/44, m. Margaret JOHNS, daughter of Richard JOHNS and Elizabeth KENSEY, b. 11 Oct 1683, d. ___
1. Margaret HOPKINS b. ___, d. ___, m. Aquilla JOHNS
2. Elizabeth HOPKINS b. 13 Jun 1703, d. 27 Feb 1772, m. Levin HILL
3. Joseph HOPKINS b. 2 Nov 1706, d. ___
4. Gerrard HOPKINS b. 7 Mar 1709, d. ___, m. Mary HALL
5. Philip HOPKINS b. 9 Aug 1711, d. ___, m. Elizabeth HALL
6. Samuel HOPKINS b. 16 Jan 1713/14, d. ___
7. Richard HOPKINS b. 12 May 1715, d. ___, m. Katherine TODD
8. William HOPKINS b. 8 Aug 1717, d. ___
9. Johns HOPKINS b. 30 Oct 1720, d. ___, m1. Mary GILLISS, m2. Mary RICHARDSON, m3. Elizabeth THOMAS (see Note B)
Richard SNOWDEN Jr., son of Richard SNOWDEN Sr. and ____, b. ___ 1666, d. ___1720, m. Mary LINTHICUM, daughter of _______, b. ___ 1667, d. ___
1. Richard SNOWDEN b. __ 1688, d. __ 1763, m1. Elizabeth Jane COALE, m2. Elizabeth THOMAS
2. Elizabeth SNOWDEN b. ___, d. bef.1749, m. John THOMAS
Samuel THOMAS, son of Philip THOMAS and Sarah HARRISON, b. circa 1655, d. bef. 10 Feb 1743, m. 15 May 1688 Mary HUTCHINS, daughter of Francis HUTCHINS of Calvert Co., b. ___, d. __ Jul 1751
1. Sarah THOMAS b. 31 Mar 1689, d. ___, m. Joseph RICHARDSON
2. Samuel THOMAS b. 1 Feb 1691, d. as infant
3. Samuel THOMAS (2d.) b. 11 Mar 1693, d. as infant
4. Philip THOMAS b. 1 Mar 1694, d. 23 Nov 1762, m1. Frances HOLLAND, m2. Ann CHEW
5. John THOMAS b. 15 Apr 1697, d. __ Feb 1749/50, m. Elizabeth SNOWDEN
6. Elizabeth THOMAS b. 28 Dec 1698, d. ___, m. Richard SNOWDEN
7. Mary THOMAS b. 6 Nov 1700, d. ___, m. John GALLOWAY
8. Samuel THOMAS (3d.) b. 12 Nov 1702, d. ___
9. Ann THOMAS b. ___, d. __ 1743, m. Edward FELL
10. Margaret THOMAS b. __1710, d. ___, m. William HARRIS
4th Generation
James BROOKE, son of Roger BROOKE Jr. and Eliza HUTCHINS, b. 21 Feb 1705, d. __ 1784, m. Deborah SNOWDEN daughter of Richard SNOWDEN and Elizabeth Jane COALE, b. __ 1710, d. __ 1758
1. James BROOKE b. __1731, d. 21 Aug 1767, m. ___
2. Roger BROOKE b. 9 Aug 1734, d. ___
3. Richard BROOKE b. 8 Jul 1736, d. ___, m. ___
4. Basil BROOKE b. 13 Dec 1738, d. 22 Aug 1799, m. Elizabeth HOPKINS
5. Elizabeth BROOKE b. 22 Mar 1740/1, d. ___, m. Thomas PLEASANTS
6. Thomas BROOKE b. 8 Mar 1743/4, d. ___
Skipwith COALE, son of Philip COALE and Cassandra SKIPWITH, b. ___, became a Baltimore Sheriff in 1742, d. bef. 1759, m. Margaret HOLLAND, daughter of __________, b. ___, d. ___ (birth order is uncertain)
1. Philip COALE b. ___, d. ___
2. William COALE b. ___, d. ___, m. Sarah WEBSTER
3. Skipwith COALE b. ___, d. ___, m. Sarah HOPKINS
4. Samuel COALE b. ___, d. ___
5. Cassandra COALE b. ___, d. ___
6. Sarah COALE b. ___, d. ___, m. Richard THOMAS
7. Susan COALE b. ___, d. ___
Gerrard HOPKINS, son of Gerrard HOPKINS and Margaret JOHNS, b. 3 Mar 1709, d. 3 Jul 1777, m. 7 May 1730 Mary HALL, daughter of _________, b. ___, d. ___
1. Margaret HOPKINS b. 11 Jan 1730/1, d. ___, m. John THOMAS
2. Gerard HOPKINS b. 25 Aug 1732, d. ___
3. Mary HOPKINS b. 11 Nov 1734, d. ___, m. Philip GOVER
4. Sarah HOPKINS b. 20 Sept 1737, d. ___, m. John COWMAN
5. Richard HOPKINS b. 7 Feb 1739/40, d. as infant
6. Elizabeth HOPKINS b. __ 1741, d. 17 Aug 1794, m. Basil BROOKE
7. Rachel HOPKINS b. 30 Dec 1742, d. ___, m. Evan THOMAS
8. Joseph HOPKINS b. 11 Jan 1744/45, d. ___, m. Elizabeth HOWELL
9. Richard HOPKINS b. 20 Mar 1747/48, d. ___
10. Hannah HOPKINS b. 29 Aug 1749, d. ___
11. Elisha HOPKINS b. 15 Oct 1752, d. ___, m1. Hannah HOWELL, m2. Sarah SNOWDEN
Richard "Youngest" "Ironmaster" SNOWDEN, son of Richard SNOWDEN Jr. and Mary LINTHICUM, b. ___ 1688, d. ___ 1763, m1. 19 May 1709 Elizabeth Jane COALE, daughter of William and Eliza COALE, b. ___ 1692, 3 children, d. ___ 1713; m2. 19 Dec 1717 Elizabeth THOMAS, daughter of _________, b. ___ 1697, 7 children, d. ___ Aug 1775
1. Deborah SNOWDEN b. ___, d. ___, m. James BROOKE
2. Eliza SNOWDEN b. ___, d. ___, m. John THOMAS
3. Mary SNOWDEN b. ___ 1712, d. ___, m. Samuel THOMAS
4. Richard SNOWDEN b. ___ 1719, d. 18 Mar 1753, m. Elizabeth CROWLEY
5. Thomas SNOWDEN b. ___ 1722, d. ___ May 1770, m. Mary WRIGHT
6. Ann SNOWDEN b. ___, d. ___, m. Henry Wright CRABB
7. Margaret SNOWDEN b. ___, d. ___, m. John CONTEE
8. Samuel SNOWDEN b. ___ 1728, d. ___
9. Elizabeth SNOWDEN b. ___, d. ____, m. Joseph COWMAN
10. John SNOWDEN b. ___, d. ____
John THOMAS, son of Samuel THOMAS and Mary HUTCHINS, b. 15 Apr 1697, d. __ Feb 1749/50, m. __ Apr 1727 Elizabeth SNOWDEN, daughter of Richard SNOWDEN, Jr. and Mary LINTHICUM, b. ___, d. ___ (predeceased husband)
1. Richard THOMAS b. __ 1728, d. ___, m. Sarah COALE
2. Samuel THOMAS b. ___, d. ___
3. Elizabeth THOMAS b. ___, d. ___, m. Richard RICHARDSON
4. John THOMAS b. __ 1734, d. 15 Feb 1826, m. Margaret HOPKINS
5th Generation
Basil BROOKE Sr., son of James BROOKE and Deborah SNOWDEN, b. 13 Dec 1738, d. 22 Aug 1794, m. Elizabeth HOPKINS, daughter of Gerard HOPKINS and Mary HALL, b. __ 1741, d. 17 Aug 1794
1. James BROOKE b. 5 May 1766, d. ___, m. Hesther BOONE
2. Gerard BROOKE b. 12 Aug 1768, d. __ 1821, m. Margaret THOMAS
3. Deborah BROOKE b. 4 Sept 1770, d. 21 Feb 1835, m. James Brooke PLEASANTS
4. Basil BROOKE Jr. b. 28 Apr 1772, d. 1 Aug 1851, m. Mary PATRICK
Thomas PLEASANTS, son of ___________, b. ___, d. ___, m. Elizabeth BROOKE, daughter of James BROOKE and Deborah SNOWDEN, b. 22 Mar 1740/1, d. ___
1. James Brooke PLEASANTS, b. ___, d. ___, m. Deborah BROOKE
2. Deborah PLEASANTS b. __ 1763, d. 27 June 1845, m. William STABLER
3. Thomas Snowden PLEASANTS b. ___, d. ___
4. William Henry PLEASANTS b. ___, d. ___
5. Mary PLEASANTS b. ___, d. ___
6. Elizabeth PLEASANTS b. ___, d. ___
Thomas SNOWDEN, son of Richard SNOWDEN the Youngest and Elizabeth THOMAS, b. ___ 1722, d. ___ May 1770, m. bef. 1744 Mary WRIGHT, daughter of Henry WRIGHT and Elizabeth SPRIGG, b. ___ 1728, d. ___ 1770
1. Henry SNOWDEN b. ___, d. ___ Apr 1775
2. Richard SNOWDEN b. ___, d. ___, m. Eliza RUTLAND
3. Thomas SNOWDEN (Major) b. ___ 1751, d. ___ 1803, m. Anne Dorsey RIDGELY
Richard THOMAS Sr., son of John THOMAS and Elizabeth SNOWDEN, b. __ 1728, d. ___, m. Sarah COALE, daughter of Skipwith COALE and Margaret HOLLAND, b. ___, d. ___
1. Samuel THOMAS (3d.) b. 2 Dec 1753, d. bef. 1808, m. Mary COWMAN
2. Elizabeth THOMAS b. 28 Oct 1755, d. ___, m. Roger JOHNSON
3. Richard THOMAS Jr. b. 21 Feb 1758, d. 6 Nov 1821, m. Deborah BROOKE
4. John THOMAS b. 27 Sept 1760, d. ___
5. Mary THOMAS b. 12 Mar 1762, d. ___, m. William ROBERTSON
6. Sarah THOMAS b. 26 Nov 1764, d. 29 Apr 1805, m. Bernard GILPIN
7. Henrietta THOMAS b. 17 Feb 1767, d. as infant
8. Margaret THOMAS b. 11 Jun 1769, d. Mar 1797, m. Gerard BROOKE
9. William THOMAS b. 11 Dec 1771, d. 22 Jan 1851, m. Martha PATRICK
10. Ann THOMAS b. 25 May 1774, d. ___
11. Henrietta THOMAS (2d.) b. 7 Mar 1777, d. ___
6th Generation
Gerard BROOKE, son of Basil BROOKE and Elizabeth HOPKINS, b. 12 Aug 1768, d. __ 1821, m. 22 Apr 1789 Margaret THOMAS, daughter of Richard THOMAS and Sarah COALE, b. 11 Jun 1769, d. 5 Mar 1797
1. Richard BROOKE b. 6 Jan 1790, d. ___ 1862, m. Mary BROOKE
2. John Thomas BROOKE b. 12 Nov 1791, d. ___
3. Elizabeth P. BROOKE b. 12 Aug 1794, d. ___, m. Thomas Pleasants STABLER
Major Thomas SNOWDEN, son of Thomas SNOWDEN and Mary WRIGHT, b. ___ 1751, d. ___ 1803, m. Anne Dorsey RIDGELY, daughter of _________, b. ___ 1754, d. ___ 1824
1. Richard SNOWDEN b. ___, d. ___, m1. Eliza WARFIELD, m2. Louisa Victoria WARFIELD
2. Thomas SNOWDEN b. ___, d. ___
3. Mary SNOWDEN b. ___, d. ___, m. John C. HERBERT
4. Nicholas SNOWDEN b. 21 Oct 1786, d. 8 Mar 1831, m. Elizabeth Thomas WARFIELD
5. Caroline Eliza SNOWDEN b. ___, d. ___ (died at the age of 8 years)
William STABLER, son of Edward STABLER and ___, b. ___ 1767, lived at Cherry Grove, d. 24 Jan 1806, m. 4 Jun 1789 Deborah PLEASANTS, daughter of Thomas PLEASANTS and Elizabeth BROOKE, b. ___ 1763, d. 27 Jun 1845
1. Thomas Pleasants STABLER b. 5 Nov 1791, d. 30 Apr 1864, m. Elizabeth P. BROOKE
2. Edward STABLER b. 26 Sept 1794, d. 1 Sept 1883, m. Ann R. ---
3. James P. STABLER b. 14 Sept 1796, d. 13 Feb 1840, m1. Elizabeth GILPIN, m2. Sarah B. BRIGGS
4. Caleb Bentley STABLER b. 24 Jan 1799, d. 26 Oct 1888, m. Anna MOORE
5. William Henry STABLER b. 13 Apr 1802, d. 22 Feb 1883, m. Eliza THOMAS
William THOMAS, son of Richard THOMAS and Sarah COALE, b. 11 Dec 1771, d. bef. 20 Dec 1799, m. Martha PATRICK, daughter of ___________, b. ___, d. ___
1. Anne Poultney THOMAS b. 14 Apr 1801, d. 5 Mar 1830
2. Eliza THOMAS b. 10 Apr 1803, d. 18 Dec 1883, m. William Henry STABLER
3. Maria R. THOMAS b. 23 Nov 1804, d. ___
4. Henrietta THOMAS b. 21 Feb 1807, d. 14 Oct 1821
5. Richard THOMAS b. 19 Apr 1809, d. 15 Oct 1820
6. Edward THOMAS b. 22 Jun 1811, d. 4 Sept 1882, m. Lydia S. GILPIN
7. William John THOMAS b. 15 Sept 1813, d. 21 Mar 1884, m. Rebecca M. ---
8. Samuel Patrick THOMAS b. 23 Jan 1816, d. 12 Dec 1898, m. Elizabeth Gassaway PORTER
9. Jane THOMAS b. 20 May 1818, d. 8 Dec 1896, m. Charles G. PORTER
10. Martha THOMAS b. 3 Feb 1822, d. 9 Jul 1881, m. Thomas P. HARVEY
Samuel WARFIELD, son of ____________, b. ___, d. ___, m. Anna THOMAS, daughter of ___________, b. ___, d. ___
1. Elizabeth Thomas WARFIELD b. 14 Nov 1790, d. 16 Jun 1866, m. Nicholas SNOWDEN
7th Generation
Joseph E. BENTLEY, son of ______, b. ___, d. ____, m. _____________, daughter of _______, b. ___, d. ___
1. Alice Ann BENTLEY b. ___, d. ___, m. John STABLER
Nicholas SNOWDEN, son of Major Thomas SNOWDEN and Anne Dorsey RIDGELY, b. 21 Oct 1786 at Montpelier, Laurel, MD, d. 8 Mar 1831 at Montpelier, Laurel, MD, m. 7 Oct 1806 Elizabeth WARFIELD, daughter of Samuel WARFIELD and Anna THOMAS, b. 14 Nov 1790, d. 16 Jun 1866, Avondale, MD.
1. Ann Elizabeth SNOWDEN b. 3 Jul 1808, d. ___, m. Francis M. HALL
2. Thomas J. SNOWDEN b. 12 Feb 1810, d. 3 Jul 1835
3. Louisa SNOWDEN b. 3 Jun 1811 , d. 27 Mar 1849, m. Col. Horace CAPRON
4. Juliana Maria SNOWDEN b. 28 Jan 1813, d. 15 Dec 1866, m. Dr. Theodore JENKINS
5. Adeline SNOWDEN b. 9 Oct 1814, m. W. W. W. BOWIE
6. Edward SNOWDEN b. 29 Oct 1816, d. ___, m. Mary Thomas WARFIELD
7. DeWilton SNOWDEN (Dr.) b. 19 Aug 1818, d. ____, m. Emma C. CAPRON
8. Henry SNOWDEN b. 29 Sept 1820, d. ____, m. Mary C. COWMAN
9. Eliza SNOWDEN (Sister Anna Maria) b. 8 __ 1822, entered Georgetown Convent in 1847
10. George SNOWDEN b. ___, d. ___
11. Emily Roseville SNOWDEN b. 24 Jun 1824, d. ___, m. Charles C. HILL
12. Nicholas SNOWDEN (2nd Lt.) b. 7 Apr 1828, d. 6 Jun 1862, m. Henrietta STABLER
13. Arthur Montieth SNOWDEN (Dr.) b. 30 Dec 1830, d. 28 Aug 1869 (drowned), m1. Ella SNOWDEN, m2. Mary VAUX
Thomas Pleasants STABLER, son of William STABLER and Deborah PLEASANTS, b. 5 Nov 1791, d. 5 Nov 1791, m. 2 Jun 1813 Elizabeth P. BROOKE, daughter of Gerard BROOKE and Margaret THOMAS, b. 12 Aug 1794, d. ___
1. Brooke STABLER b. 25 Apr 1814, d. ____
2. Sarah STABLER b. 31 Jan 1816, d. ___, m. Augustus JORDAN
3. George STABLER b. 18 May 1818, d. ___, m. Mary W. PAXTON
4. John STABLER b. 13 Apr 1820, d. ___, m. Alice Ann BENTLEY
5. Deborah STABLER b. 7 Apr 1822, d. ___
6. James STABLER b. 30 May 1827, d. 13 Jan 1909, m. Phebe A. RUSSELL
7. Howard STABLER b. 5 Aug 1829, d. 18 Jul 1876, m. Esther G. MOORE
8. William STABLER b. 11 July 1831, d. 19 Nov 1832
9. William Henry STABLER b. 6 May 1833, d. ___
10. Deborah STABLER b. 27 Jun 1836, d. ___
11. Thomas Pleasants STABLER, Jr. b. 30 Aug 1840, d. ___
William Henry “Henry” STABLER, of William STABLER and Deborah PLEASANTS, b. 13 Apr 1802, d. 22 Feb 1883, m. Eliza THOMAS, daughter of William THOMAS and Martha PATRICK, b. 10 Apr 1803, d. 18 Dec 1883
1. Martha STABLER b. __ Feb 1826, d. ___, m. Thomas Moore REESE
2. Joseph STABLER b. 24 Jan 1827, d. 3 Jan 1915
3. Henrietta STABLER b. 27 Jan 1829, d. 21 May 1907, m. Lt. Nicholas SNOWDEN
4. Lucy STABLER b. __ Sept 1830, d. 28 Apr 1897
5. William STABLER b. 16 Mar 1832, d. 9 Feb 1867
6. Ellen STABLER b. 16 Feb 1834, d. 6 Jan 1924
8th Generation
George BEALL, son of ______, b. ___, d. ___, m. Margaret BARBER, daughter of ______, b. ___, d. ___
1. William Vernon BEALL b. __ 1857, d. 22 Oct 1931, m. Mary Elizabeth PURDUM
Lieutenant Nicholas N. SNOWDEN, son of Nicholas SNOWDEN and Elizabeth WARFIELD, b. 7 Apr 1828 at Montpelier in Laurel, MD, d. 6 Jun 1862, Harrisonburg, VA, m. 28 May 1850 at Philadephia, PA, Henrietta STABLER, daughter of William Henry STABLER and Eliza THOMAS, b. 27 Jan 1829, Sandy Spring, MD, d. 21 May 1907, Sandy Spring, MD
1. Emily Roseville SNOWDEN b. 7 Apr 1851, d. ___ m. Gerard HOPKINS
2. Marion SNOWDEN b. 28 Jun 1853, d. 7 Jan 1857
3. Lucy SNOWDEN b. 13 Mar 1855, d. ___, m1. ______ LEA, m2. William W. MOORE
4. Helen SNOWDEN b. 7 Apr 1857, d. 18 Sept 1927, m. Augustus STABLER
5. Francis SNOWDEN b. 19 Mar 1859, d. 11 Sept 1936, m. Frances Brooke STABLER
6. Mary Thomas SNOWDEN b. 3 Jun 1861, d. 31 Dec 1932, m. Charles Dorsey WARFIELD
John STABLER, son of Thomas Pleasants STABLER and Elizabeth P. BROOKE, b. 13 Apr 1820, d. ____, m. 8 May 1851 Alice Ann BENTLEY, daughter of Joseph E. BENTLEY b. ___, d. ___.
1. Florence M. STABLER b. 24 Jun 1852, d. ___, m. Charles M. BOND
2. Alice Evelyn STABLER b. 14 Aug 1854, d. ___
3. Cora STABLER b. 6 Oct 1856, d. ___
4. Anna B. STABLER b. 24 Feb 1859, d. ___
5. Frances Brooke STABLER b. 25 Oct 1860, d. 25 Mar 1943, m. Francis SNOWDEN
6. Eliza Brooke STABLER b. 15 May 1863, d. ___
7. John STABLER Jr. b. 15 Nov 1865, d. ___
8. Alice Bentley STABLER b. 8 Jan 1868, d. ___
9. Evangeline STABLER b. ___, d. ___, m. William H. GILPIN (23 Oct 1902)
9th Generation
William Vernon BEALL, son of George BEALL and Margaret BARBER, b. __ 1857 at Cedar Grove, d. 22 Oct 1931, bur. Rockville Cemetery, m. Mary Elizabeth PURDUM, daughter of ________, b. 24 Mar 1859 at Cedar Grove, d. 18 Dec 1920, both bur. at Rockville
1. Infant BEALL – unnamed (bur. at Rockville)
2. Forrest Purdum BEALL b. ___ 1888, d. 21 Aug 1963, m. Flora M. DILL
Francis "Frank" SNOWDEN, son of Lt. Nicholas SNOWDEN and Elizabeth WARFIELD, b. 19 Mar 1859, d. 11 Sept 1936, m. 18 May 1886 at Ingleside in Sandy Spring, MD, Frances "Fannie" Brooke STABLER, daughter of John STABLER and Alice Ann BENTLEY, b. 15 Oct 1860, d. 25 Mar 1943
1. Elsie Brooke SNOWDEN b. 4 Mar 1887, d. 21 Dec 1945
2. Miriam SNOWDEN b. 14 Apr 1891, d. 26 Nov 1950, m1. Samuel P. THOMAS Jr., m2. James H. LAMPTON
3. Edward SNOWDEN b. 13 Dec 1893, d. 15 Oct 1955, m. Nellie KELLY
4. Anna McFarland SNOWDEN b. 27 Jul 1896, d. ___, m. Louis Theodore "Doc" BUSSLER
5. Marjorie SNOWDEN b. __ 1888, d. __ 1970, m. Reuben BRIGHAM
Arthur Amber BRIGHAM, son of John Winslow BRIGHAM and Mary Rebecca PUTNAM, b. 6 Oct 1856, Marlboro, MA, d. 12 Nov 1938, Lakeland, FL, m. 6 Oct 1881 Charlotte Warren BRIGHAM, daughter of Dennison BRIGHAM and Sarah WEEKS, b. __ 1857, Marlboro, MA, d. __ 1933
1. Reuben BRIGHAM b. 13 Dec 1887, d. 6 Dec 1946, m. Marjorie SNOWDEN
2. Ruth Putnam BRIGHAM b. 12 Sept 1892, d. ___ (bur. at Woodside)
10th Generation
Forrest Purdum "Blue" BEALL, son of William Vernon BEALL and Mary Elizabeth PURDUM, b. ___ 1888, d. 21 Aug 1963, m. Flora M. DILL, daughter of ____________, b. ___ 1891, d. 13 Jun 1934, both bur. at Rockville
1. Gladys Lucille BEALL b. 7 Oct 1915, d. 29 Dec 2008, m. David Lewis BRIGHAM
2. Dorothy BEALL b. __, still living, m. Vernon SWIGER
3. Anna BEALL b. ___, d. ___, m. Dr. George HOPKINS
4. Miriam BEALL b. ___, d. ___, m. Arthur HORNER
5. Dolores BEALL b. ___, still living, m. Joseph KNOWLAND Jr.
6. Flora BEALL b. 22 Feb 1934, still living, m. Gil MOORE
7. Elaine BEALL (Flora’s twin) b. 22 Feb 1934, d. same day (bur. at Rockville)
Reuben BRIGHAM, son of Arthur Amber BRIGHAM and Charlotte Warren BRIGHAM, b. 13 Dec 1887, Marlboro, MA, d. 6 Dec 1946, Chicago, IL, m. 7 Jun 1915 at Ingleside in Sandy Spring, MD, Marjorie SNOWDEN, daughter of Frances SNOWDEN and Francis Brooke STABLER, b. 1888, d. 1970
1. David Lewis BRIGHAM b. 10 Dec 1916, d. 6 Sept 1999, Olney, MD, m. Gladys BEALL
2. Francis Snowden BRIGHAM, b. ___, d. ___, m. Dorothy LEMON
3. Marjorie Amber BRIGHAM b. 22 Feb 1922, still living, m. 18 July 1944 Robert Whitney MILLER
4. Arthur Putnam BRIGHAM b. 29 May 1928, d. 22 Jan 1992, Bella Vista, AR, m. Helen CASE
References:
1. The Annals of Sandy Spring (1863-1883), by William Henry Fahrquhar, Cushings & Bailey, 1884 (full text and pdf scan of book)
2. The Annals of Sandy Spring Vol. 2 (1883-1895), by Eliza N. Moore, Thomas & Evans, 1902 (full text and pdf scan of book)
3. The Annals of Sandy Spring Vol. 3 (1895-1909), by Rebecca T. Miller, King Brothers, 1909
4. The Annals of Sandy Spring Vol. 4 (1909-1929), by Annie B. Kirk, The Times Printing Company, 1929
5. The Annals of Sandy Spring Vol. 5 (1929-1947), by Herbert O. Stabler, American Publishing Co., 1950
6. Genealogical Notes: containing the pedigree of the Thomas family of Maryland, and of the following connected families: Snowden--Buckley--Lawrence--Chew--Ellicott--Hopkins--Johnson--Rutherford--Fairfax--Schieffelin--Tyson and others .., by Lawrence Buckley Thomas, 1877 (full text and pdf scan of book)
7. The Thomas Book: giving the Genealogies of Sir Rhys ap Thomas, K.G., the Thomas Family descended from him, and some Allied Families, by Lawrence Buckley Thomas, published by The Henry T. Thomas Company, New York, NY, 1896 (Googlebooks scan of book)
8. Burials at The Sandy Spring Friends Meeting Graveyard and at The Woodside Cemetery, 1754 to 2003: A listing of burials and the writing on grave stones of a Quaker Community, published by the Sandy Spring Friends Meeting
Note A: Among the 2nd Generation offspring I have highlighted Elizabeth Thomas (daughter of Philip Thomas and Sarah Harrison) in green to indicate that she is a connection between generations. But she married William Coale who was among the 2nd Generation parents, the same generation as her own parents. Elizabeth Thomas was William Coale’s third wife and must have been quite young at the time of their marriage. They had 3 children together before William Coale’s death in 1678. Elizabeth Thomas went on to marry Edward Talbot. She died in 1726--forty-eight years after the death of William Coale.
Note B: Among the 3rd Generation offspring Johns Hopkins born 30 Oct 1720 was the grandfather of Johns Hopkins the Quaker philanthropist born 19 May 1795. Here is the progression: Gerrard Hopkins married Margaret Johns and named their ninth child Johns Hopkins, "Johns" being Margaret's family name. Johns Hopkins and his third wife Elizabeth Thomas named their oldest son Samuel Hopkins. Samuel Hopkins married Hannah Janney, and their second son was called Johns Hopkins. This Johns Hopkins was born 19 May 1795 and died 24 Dec 1873 without issue but left behind a significant legacy.
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October 13, 2009
September 24, 2009
Annals - Volume V
I am in the process of combing through The Annals of Sandy Spring for family history tidbits and started with Volume V, 1929-1947, edited by Herbert Osburn Stabler, published by American Publishing Co., copyright 1950. As always, I welcome corrections and additions. First I have pasted in a couple branches of family tree for your reference, followed by passages from the Annals. For convenience sake, I designated the generations by their relation to me. I have highlighted individuals mentioned in Vol. V of the Annals.
Third Great Grandparents
Lieutenant Nicholas N. SNOWDEN, son of Nicholas SNOWDEN and Elizabeth WARFIELD, b. 7 Apr 1828 at Montpelier in Laurel, MD, d. 6 Jun 1862, near Harrisonburg, VA, married 28 May 1850 at Philadephia, PA, Henrietta STABLER, daughter of William Henry STABLER and Eliza THOMAS, b. 27 Jan 1829, Sandy Spring, MD, d. 21 May 1907, Sandy Spring, MD
1. Emily Roseville SNOWDEN b. 7 Apr 1851, m. Gerard HOPKINS
2. Marion SNOWDEN b. 28 Jun 1853, d. 7 Jan 1857
3. Lucy SNOWDEN b. 13 Mar 1855, m1. ___ LEA, m2. William W. MOORE
4. Helen SNOWDEN b. 7 Apr 1857, m. Dr. Augustus STABLER
5. Francis SNOWDEN b. 19 Mar 1859, d. 11 Sept 1936, m. Fannie Brooke STABLER
6. Mary Thomas SNOWDEN b. 3 Jun 1861, d. 31 Dec 1932, m. Charles Dorsey WARFIELD
John STABLER, son of Thomas Pleasants STABLER and Elizabeth P. BROOKE, b. 13 Apr 1820, married 8 May 1851 Alice Ann BENTLEY, daughter of Joseph E. BENTLEY
1. Florence M. STABLER b. 24 Jun 1852, m. Charles M. BOND
2. Alice Evelyn STABLER b. 14 Aug 1854
3. Cora STABLER b. 6 Oct 1856
4. Anna B. STABLER b. 24 Feb 1859
5. Frances "Fannie" Brooke STABLER b. 25 Oct 1860, d. 25 Mar 1943, m. Francis SNOWDEN
6. Eliza Brooke STABLER b. 15 May 1863
7. John STABLER Jr. b. 15 Nov 1865
8. Alice Bentley STABLER b. 8 Jan 1868
9. Evangeline STABLER m. William H. GILPIN
Second Great Grandparents
Arthur Amber BRIGHAM, son of John Winslow BRIGHAM and Mary Rebecca PUTNAM, b. 6 Oct 1856, Marlboro, MA, d. 12 Nov 1938, Lakeland, FL, married 6 Oct 1881 Charlotte Warren BRIGHAM, daughter of Dennison BRIGHAM and Sarah WEEKS, b. 1857, Marlboro, MA, d. 1933
1. Reuben BRIGHAM b. 13 Dec 1887, d. 6 Dec 1946, m. Marjorie SNOWDEN
2. Ruth BRIGHAM b. 12 Sept 1892
Francis "Frank" SNOWDEN, son of Lt. Nicholas SNOWDEN and Henrietta STABLER, b. 19 Mar 1859, d. 11 Sept 1936, married 18 May 1886 Frances "Fannie" Brooke STABLER, daughter of John STABLER and Alice Ann BENTLEY, b. 15 Oct 1860, d. 25 Mar 1943
1. Elsie Brooke SNOWDEN b. 4 Mar 1887, d. 21 Dec 1945
2. Miriam SNOWDEN b. 15 Apr 1891, d. Nov 1950, m1. Samuel P. THOMAS, m2. James H. LAMPTON
3. Edward SNOWDEN b. 13 Dec 1893, m. Nellie KELLEY
4. Anna McFarland SNOWDEN b. 27 Jul 1896, m. Louis Theodore "Doc" BUSSLER
5. Marjorie SNOWDEN b. 1888, d. 1970, m. Reuben BRIGHAM
Great Grandparents
Reuben BRIGHAM, son of Arthur Amber BRIGHAM and Charlotte Warren BRIGHAM, b. 13 Dec 1887, Marlboro, MA, d. 6 Dec 1946, Chicago, IL, married 7 Jun 1915 at Ingleside in Sandy Spring, MD, Marjorie SNOWDEN, daughter of Frances SNOWDEN and Francis Brooke STABLER, b. 1888, d. 1970
1. David Lewis BRIGHAM b. 1916, d. Oct 1999, Olney, MD, m. 28 Dec 1938 Gladys BEALL b. 7 Oct 1915, d. 29 Dec 2008, Mt. Airy, MD
2. Francis Snowden BRIGHAM, deceased, m. Dorothy LEMON, deceased
3. Marjorie Amber BRIGHAM b. 22 Feb 1922, still living, m. 18 July 1944 Robert Whitney MILLER, deceased
4. Arthur Putnam BRIGHAM b. 1928, d. 22 Jan 1992, Bella Vista, AR, m. Helen CASE, still living
Excerpts from The Annals of Sandy Spring, Volume V, 1929-1947:
p. 16 - Sept. 15 [1930] a large number of people visited the unusual and beautiful detura plants of Elsie Snowden at Engleside [sic]. During the night of bloom two plants had 90 bell-shaped blooms, six inches in length and three inches in diameter, and very fragrant. There was also a night-blooming cereus with fourteen blooms. The garden lovers of the neighborhood visiting this unusual sight felt that this was the most beautiful display of floraculture ever seen in Sandy Spring.
p. 47 - Mary Snowden Warfield was my friend and the friendship strengthened and deepened with the years. As a homemaker, a mother, and a friend she lived a life so fully ripe in good deeds, she must have been tenderly gathered into the great Garner House of the Lord when on December 31 [1932], with the dying year, she passed into the Great Beyond. She lied in the family lot in Oak Grove Cemetery at Glenwood, Maryland.
p. 84 - The obituary for Miriam Snowden Lampton is tucked into the pages here, about October 1935. Although the article contains no date of death, I believe that she died in November 1950. She was married to Samuel P. Thomas and widowed before she wed James H. Lampton. The text of the notice is as follows:
Miriam Lampton Buried Saturday. Burial services were held Saturday for Mrs. Miriam Snowden Lampton, of Ashton and Washington, D.C., at the Friends Meeting House, Sandy Spring. A native of Montgomery County, Mrs. Lampton was employed by the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington. She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Francis Snowden, of Ashton. Death came at the Sibley hospital in Washington last week, following a brief illness, brought on by a severe brain hemorrhage. Mrs. Lampton is survived by her two sons, Evan S. Thomas, of Seattle, Washington, and Edward P. Thomas, Wheaton. She is also survied by two sisters, Mrs. Reuben Brigham [Marjorie], of Ashton, and Mrs. Louis T. Bussler [Anna], also of Ashton, and a brother, Edward Snowden of Sandy Spring.
p. 106-7 - Francis Snowden was born at "Avondale" near Laurel, Maryland, March 19, 1859. His grandmother, Elizabeth Warfield Snowden, tiring of so large an establishment as "Montepelier" [sic] divided her possessions among her six sons and six daughters reserving five hundred acres of the manor upon which she built a brick house and asked her son Nicholas to live with her. He was to inherit it at her death. In 1850 he took his bride Henrietta Stabler there. When the Civil War was declared, Captain [sic] Nicholas Snowden and his militia company joined the Confederate ranks, providing their own horses and uniforms. He lost his life in an engagement at Harrisonburg, Virginia, June 6, 1862. Three years later his mother died and Henrietta Snowden returned to her birthplace, Sandy Spring, to occupy, with her five children "Ingleside" a house her father Wm. Henry Stabler built for her and there Francis was reared.
He married Fannie Brooke [Frances] Stabler May 18, 1886 in Sandy Spring Meeting House. They went to "Ingleside" to live with his mother where their four daughters and one son were born. There they lived for a little over fifty years. He passed away on September 11, 1936, and was laid to rest at Sandy Spring. (E.T.S.)
p. 137 - E. Clifton Thomas bought a tract of woodland adjoining Ashton from Fanny B. Snowden [1937-8].
p. 148-9 - Nov. 12th [1938]. Arthur A. Brigham, aged 82 years, died in Lakeland, Florida, where he had gone to spend the winter; his remains were interred a few days later in Woodside Cemetery. Mr. Brigham was a Past Master of Massachusetts State Grange. For a time he was Professor of Agriculture at the Imperial College of Agriculture at Sapporo, Japan. Later he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Goettingen, Germany. He then occupied the position of Professor of Agriculture at the Experiment State of Rhode Island. He went from there to Ithaca, New York, where he became general manager of the Cornell Incubator Co. he then moved his family to South Dakota where he became the organizer and first Principal of the South Dakota School of Agriculture. Mr. Brigham was largely responsible for the establishment of the Grange in Rhode Island and was instrumental in the formation of two in Florida.
p. 151 - Dec. 28th [1938]--David Lewis Brigham, son of Reuben and Marjorie Brigham and Gladys Beall, daughter of Forest and the late Flora Dill Beall were married in Rockville. The young people have gone to live in Des Moines, Iowa, where David has a position.
p. 181 - On June 7th [1940], the Brigham children gave Reuben and Marjorie a reception in honor of their 25th anniversary.
p. 194 - [April 1941] About this time Reuben and Marjorie Brigham returned from an extensive trip to Mexico and the South.
p. 198-9 - [August 1941] Through Reuben Brigham, it seems the Agricultural Dept. has become interested in the Sandy Spring Community as an advanced social and agricultural section; so for several months they have been preparing an educational film based on our past history and the efforts of the three farmers' clubs and especially the Farmers' Convention from which so much of our advancement in agriculture has emanated. They have taken shots on farms at Rockland, Plainfield, Willow Grove, The Highlands, Oakley, The Briars and perhaps some others along with some of the old Meeting House and Community House where the first Farmers Convention was held over seventy years ago. When completed and rounded out it ought to make a very creditable showing of the records and accomplishments of Sandy Spring farmers.
p. 205 - Augustus Stabler was born at Roslyn, near Brighton August 25th, 1858. As a young man he took courses at Johns Hopkins University and studied medicine at Howard University. On September 18th, 1884 he married Helen Snowden and went to live in Lawrence, Mass. where he practiced medicine. In Sept. 1888, he returned to Roslyn to live, bringing his wife and two children, Isabel and Austin. He practiced medicine and farmed until the summer of 1911, where he entered the service of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. In 1915 he went to Fairfax County, Va. where he operated a nursery with his son Henry. He died March 27th [1942] and is survived by five children, Isabel S. Moore, Sydney Snowden, Henry, Nicholas Snowden and N. Graham Stabler. Interment was at Woodside. (E.H.L.)
p. 207-8 - Fannie B. Snowden and daughter Elsie again spent the winter [1941-2] at the home of her daughter and son-in-law Louis and Anna Bussler at Ashton.
p. 210 - I feel it is fitting that we should record here the names of our neighborhood boys who joined one or another branch of our Nation's services: Francis Brigham... [1941-2]
p. 224 - Frances Brooke Snowden, daughter of John and Alice Bentley Stabler, was born Oct. 15th, 1860 at "Oreola" near Brookeville, Md. She received her education in the schools of Philadelphia. Returning to Sandy Spring she made her home at "Harewood" with her cousins Arthur and Anna Stabler, and from there was married May 18th, 1886, to Francis Snowden. As a bride, she went to Ingleside where she lived until her death on march 25th, 1943, having survived her husband by over five years. She faithfully performed the duties of the busy wife and helpmate and gave the loving care of a mother to their five children. The latter years of her life were spent as a partial invalid. She was always cheerful and uncomplaining, an outstanding example to all who knew her. (M.S.M.)
p. 252 - The following is a list of the Community young men that are now serving their country in one or another branch of the armed forces. These are the boys and men that went in during the year [1943-4] or who were inadvertently missed from last year's record: ...Francis Snowden...David Brigham...Francis Brigham...
p. 257-8 - On July 18th [1944] Marjorie Amber, daughter of Reuben and Marjorie S. Brigham was married to Staff Sgt. Robert Whittley Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Miller of Silver Spring, Maryland. Later, Sgt. Miller was stationed at Ascension Island with the weather division of the Army Air Corps and Marjorie went to Camp Swift for basic training in the Army Nursing Corps as a 2nd Lieutenant. During July the Fifth War Loan was largely oversubscribed by the Sandy Spring section.
p. 260 - On Aug. 28th [1944] a telegram was received by Louis T. Bussler from the War Department bearing the sad news that his nephew Paul Bussler had been killed in action in France on Aug. 11th.
p. 262 - Oct 21st [1944] Virginia, daughter of Edward and Nellie Kelley Snowden was married to Mr. Rudolph Bouquet, son of Mr. and Mrs. G.P. Bouquet of Houma, La.
p. 271 - A list of Sherwood High School graduates discloses the fact that during the past year [1944-5] the following have entered the service of their country:...Marjorie Brigham Miller.
p. 278 - About this time [Sept. 1945] Marjorie Brigham Miller went to the Pacific Coast in her capacity as an Army nurse; she sailed from New York by way of the Panama Canal.
p. 279 - Elsie Brooke Snowden passed away Dec. 21st [1945] after a brief illness at Garfield Hospital in Washington. The daughter of Francis and Frances Brooke Snowden, she was born at Ingleside March 4th, 1887. After training at the Corcoran Art School in Washington and the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, she twice traveled abroad on scholarships from the Philadelphia Academy. She received recognition in the United States and Europe for her landscape and portrait paintings, and the Corcoran School honored her with its Annual Gold Medal. Interment was in the Friends Meeting House grounds at Sandy Spring. (E.T.S.)
p. 301 - On Dec. 6th [1946] Reuben Brigham died suddenly on a trip to the midwest where he had gone in his capacity as an extension worker in the Agriculture Department. This huge, somewhat gaunt, somewhat Lincolnesque fellow, who lumbered along like an old fashioned farm wagon, was biological mass of electronically fortified atoms. Born in Marlboro, Mass. in 1887, he grew up all over the world, wherever his father taught agriculture. In 1908 he graduated from the University of Maryland and spent the next five years farming in this state.
In 1913 he turned up as secretary and general assistant to Pres. Harry J. Patterson of the University of Maryland. Two years later he became Maryland's extension editor and also assumed charge of boys 4-H Club work. In 1917 he entered USDA to develop visual and editorial materials for extension work. He himself developed into a human institution. But all that doesn't say it. He was more than a man. He was a force. Warm, human, friendly, dynamic, as earthy as his pure farmer name, he was known all over the nation where many times he seemed to be the Department of Agriculture personified. No place was too small, no individual too inconsequential for him. He passed none by. Indefatigable, boundless in energy, incredible in production, outstanding career employee, Nature's own nobleman, a product of the soil--is interests never once flagged--until Dec. 6th when Reuben Brigham took off for more boundless horizons where his restless mind will find many unfinished tasks. (From USDA.)
p. 308 - On Friday, Feb. 7 [1947], a "Talent Show" was presented in the [Sherwood] auditorium. Barbara Woodward won first prize with a ballet dance, Dolores Beall, who sang and accompanied herself on the piano won second prize and the Heil sisters were third when they harmonized "Ol' Buttermilk Skies."
p. 308-9 - Among the transfers of property during the year [1946-7]... Robert W. and Margery [sic] Brigham Miller built and moved into a house on a portion of the Brigham property...
Third Great Grandparents
Lieutenant Nicholas N. SNOWDEN, son of Nicholas SNOWDEN and Elizabeth WARFIELD, b. 7 Apr 1828 at Montpelier in Laurel, MD, d. 6 Jun 1862, near Harrisonburg, VA, married 28 May 1850 at Philadephia, PA, Henrietta STABLER, daughter of William Henry STABLER and Eliza THOMAS, b. 27 Jan 1829, Sandy Spring, MD, d. 21 May 1907, Sandy Spring, MD
1. Emily Roseville SNOWDEN b. 7 Apr 1851, m. Gerard HOPKINS
2. Marion SNOWDEN b. 28 Jun 1853, d. 7 Jan 1857
3. Lucy SNOWDEN b. 13 Mar 1855, m1. ___ LEA, m2. William W. MOORE
4. Helen SNOWDEN b. 7 Apr 1857, m. Dr. Augustus STABLER
5. Francis SNOWDEN b. 19 Mar 1859, d. 11 Sept 1936, m. Fannie Brooke STABLER
6. Mary Thomas SNOWDEN b. 3 Jun 1861, d. 31 Dec 1932, m. Charles Dorsey WARFIELD
John STABLER, son of Thomas Pleasants STABLER and Elizabeth P. BROOKE, b. 13 Apr 1820, married 8 May 1851 Alice Ann BENTLEY, daughter of Joseph E. BENTLEY
1. Florence M. STABLER b. 24 Jun 1852, m. Charles M. BOND
2. Alice Evelyn STABLER b. 14 Aug 1854
3. Cora STABLER b. 6 Oct 1856
4. Anna B. STABLER b. 24 Feb 1859
5. Frances "Fannie" Brooke STABLER b. 25 Oct 1860, d. 25 Mar 1943, m. Francis SNOWDEN
6. Eliza Brooke STABLER b. 15 May 1863
7. John STABLER Jr. b. 15 Nov 1865
8. Alice Bentley STABLER b. 8 Jan 1868
9. Evangeline STABLER m. William H. GILPIN
Second Great Grandparents
Arthur Amber BRIGHAM, son of John Winslow BRIGHAM and Mary Rebecca PUTNAM, b. 6 Oct 1856, Marlboro, MA, d. 12 Nov 1938, Lakeland, FL, married 6 Oct 1881 Charlotte Warren BRIGHAM, daughter of Dennison BRIGHAM and Sarah WEEKS, b. 1857, Marlboro, MA, d. 1933
1. Reuben BRIGHAM b. 13 Dec 1887, d. 6 Dec 1946, m. Marjorie SNOWDEN
2. Ruth BRIGHAM b. 12 Sept 1892
Francis "Frank" SNOWDEN, son of Lt. Nicholas SNOWDEN and Henrietta STABLER, b. 19 Mar 1859, d. 11 Sept 1936, married 18 May 1886 Frances "Fannie" Brooke STABLER, daughter of John STABLER and Alice Ann BENTLEY, b. 15 Oct 1860, d. 25 Mar 1943
1. Elsie Brooke SNOWDEN b. 4 Mar 1887, d. 21 Dec 1945
2. Miriam SNOWDEN b. 15 Apr 1891, d. Nov 1950, m1. Samuel P. THOMAS, m2. James H. LAMPTON
3. Edward SNOWDEN b. 13 Dec 1893, m. Nellie KELLEY
4. Anna McFarland SNOWDEN b. 27 Jul 1896, m. Louis Theodore "Doc" BUSSLER
5. Marjorie SNOWDEN b. 1888, d. 1970, m. Reuben BRIGHAM
Great Grandparents
Reuben BRIGHAM, son of Arthur Amber BRIGHAM and Charlotte Warren BRIGHAM, b. 13 Dec 1887, Marlboro, MA, d. 6 Dec 1946, Chicago, IL, married 7 Jun 1915 at Ingleside in Sandy Spring, MD, Marjorie SNOWDEN, daughter of Frances SNOWDEN and Francis Brooke STABLER, b. 1888, d. 1970
1. David Lewis BRIGHAM b. 1916, d. Oct 1999, Olney, MD, m. 28 Dec 1938 Gladys BEALL b. 7 Oct 1915, d. 29 Dec 2008, Mt. Airy, MD
2. Francis Snowden BRIGHAM, deceased, m. Dorothy LEMON, deceased
3. Marjorie Amber BRIGHAM b. 22 Feb 1922, still living, m. 18 July 1944 Robert Whitney MILLER, deceased
4. Arthur Putnam BRIGHAM b. 1928, d. 22 Jan 1992, Bella Vista, AR, m. Helen CASE, still living
Excerpts from The Annals of Sandy Spring, Volume V, 1929-1947:
p. 16 - Sept. 15 [1930] a large number of people visited the unusual and beautiful detura plants of Elsie Snowden at Engleside [sic]. During the night of bloom two plants had 90 bell-shaped blooms, six inches in length and three inches in diameter, and very fragrant. There was also a night-blooming cereus with fourteen blooms. The garden lovers of the neighborhood visiting this unusual sight felt that this was the most beautiful display of floraculture ever seen in Sandy Spring.
p. 47 - Mary Snowden Warfield was my friend and the friendship strengthened and deepened with the years. As a homemaker, a mother, and a friend she lived a life so fully ripe in good deeds, she must have been tenderly gathered into the great Garner House of the Lord when on December 31 [1932], with the dying year, she passed into the Great Beyond. She lied in the family lot in Oak Grove Cemetery at Glenwood, Maryland.
p. 84 - The obituary for Miriam Snowden Lampton is tucked into the pages here, about October 1935. Although the article contains no date of death, I believe that she died in November 1950. She was married to Samuel P. Thomas and widowed before she wed James H. Lampton. The text of the notice is as follows:
Miriam Lampton Buried Saturday. Burial services were held Saturday for Mrs. Miriam Snowden Lampton, of Ashton and Washington, D.C., at the Friends Meeting House, Sandy Spring. A native of Montgomery County, Mrs. Lampton was employed by the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington. She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Francis Snowden, of Ashton. Death came at the Sibley hospital in Washington last week, following a brief illness, brought on by a severe brain hemorrhage. Mrs. Lampton is survived by her two sons, Evan S. Thomas, of Seattle, Washington, and Edward P. Thomas, Wheaton. She is also survied by two sisters, Mrs. Reuben Brigham [Marjorie], of Ashton, and Mrs. Louis T. Bussler [Anna], also of Ashton, and a brother, Edward Snowden of Sandy Spring.
p. 106-7 - Francis Snowden was born at "Avondale" near Laurel, Maryland, March 19, 1859. His grandmother, Elizabeth Warfield Snowden, tiring of so large an establishment as "Montepelier" [sic] divided her possessions among her six sons and six daughters reserving five hundred acres of the manor upon which she built a brick house and asked her son Nicholas to live with her. He was to inherit it at her death. In 1850 he took his bride Henrietta Stabler there. When the Civil War was declared, Captain [sic] Nicholas Snowden and his militia company joined the Confederate ranks, providing their own horses and uniforms. He lost his life in an engagement at Harrisonburg, Virginia, June 6, 1862. Three years later his mother died and Henrietta Snowden returned to her birthplace, Sandy Spring, to occupy, with her five children "Ingleside" a house her father Wm. Henry Stabler built for her and there Francis was reared.
He married Fannie Brooke [Frances] Stabler May 18, 1886 in Sandy Spring Meeting House. They went to "Ingleside" to live with his mother where their four daughters and one son were born. There they lived for a little over fifty years. He passed away on September 11, 1936, and was laid to rest at Sandy Spring. (E.T.S.)
p. 137 - E. Clifton Thomas bought a tract of woodland adjoining Ashton from Fanny B. Snowden [1937-8].
p. 148-9 - Nov. 12th [1938]. Arthur A. Brigham, aged 82 years, died in Lakeland, Florida, where he had gone to spend the winter; his remains were interred a few days later in Woodside Cemetery. Mr. Brigham was a Past Master of Massachusetts State Grange. For a time he was Professor of Agriculture at the Imperial College of Agriculture at Sapporo, Japan. Later he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Goettingen, Germany. He then occupied the position of Professor of Agriculture at the Experiment State of Rhode Island. He went from there to Ithaca, New York, where he became general manager of the Cornell Incubator Co. he then moved his family to South Dakota where he became the organizer and first Principal of the South Dakota School of Agriculture. Mr. Brigham was largely responsible for the establishment of the Grange in Rhode Island and was instrumental in the formation of two in Florida.
p. 151 - Dec. 28th [1938]--David Lewis Brigham, son of Reuben and Marjorie Brigham and Gladys Beall, daughter of Forest and the late Flora Dill Beall were married in Rockville. The young people have gone to live in Des Moines, Iowa, where David has a position.
p. 181 - On June 7th [1940], the Brigham children gave Reuben and Marjorie a reception in honor of their 25th anniversary.
p. 194 - [April 1941] About this time Reuben and Marjorie Brigham returned from an extensive trip to Mexico and the South.
p. 198-9 - [August 1941] Through Reuben Brigham, it seems the Agricultural Dept. has become interested in the Sandy Spring Community as an advanced social and agricultural section; so for several months they have been preparing an educational film based on our past history and the efforts of the three farmers' clubs and especially the Farmers' Convention from which so much of our advancement in agriculture has emanated. They have taken shots on farms at Rockland, Plainfield, Willow Grove, The Highlands, Oakley, The Briars and perhaps some others along with some of the old Meeting House and Community House where the first Farmers Convention was held over seventy years ago. When completed and rounded out it ought to make a very creditable showing of the records and accomplishments of Sandy Spring farmers.
p. 205 - Augustus Stabler was born at Roslyn, near Brighton August 25th, 1858. As a young man he took courses at Johns Hopkins University and studied medicine at Howard University. On September 18th, 1884 he married Helen Snowden and went to live in Lawrence, Mass. where he practiced medicine. In Sept. 1888, he returned to Roslyn to live, bringing his wife and two children, Isabel and Austin. He practiced medicine and farmed until the summer of 1911, where he entered the service of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. In 1915 he went to Fairfax County, Va. where he operated a nursery with his son Henry. He died March 27th [1942] and is survived by five children, Isabel S. Moore, Sydney Snowden, Henry, Nicholas Snowden and N. Graham Stabler. Interment was at Woodside. (E.H.L.)
p. 207-8 - Fannie B. Snowden and daughter Elsie again spent the winter [1941-2] at the home of her daughter and son-in-law Louis and Anna Bussler at Ashton.
p. 210 - I feel it is fitting that we should record here the names of our neighborhood boys who joined one or another branch of our Nation's services: Francis Brigham... [1941-2]
p. 224 - Frances Brooke Snowden, daughter of John and Alice Bentley Stabler, was born Oct. 15th, 1860 at "Oreola" near Brookeville, Md. She received her education in the schools of Philadelphia. Returning to Sandy Spring she made her home at "Harewood" with her cousins Arthur and Anna Stabler, and from there was married May 18th, 1886, to Francis Snowden. As a bride, she went to Ingleside where she lived until her death on march 25th, 1943, having survived her husband by over five years. She faithfully performed the duties of the busy wife and helpmate and gave the loving care of a mother to their five children. The latter years of her life were spent as a partial invalid. She was always cheerful and uncomplaining, an outstanding example to all who knew her. (M.S.M.)
p. 252 - The following is a list of the Community young men that are now serving their country in one or another branch of the armed forces. These are the boys and men that went in during the year [1943-4] or who were inadvertently missed from last year's record: ...Francis Snowden...David Brigham...Francis Brigham...
p. 257-8 - On July 18th [1944] Marjorie Amber, daughter of Reuben and Marjorie S. Brigham was married to Staff Sgt. Robert Whittley Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Miller of Silver Spring, Maryland. Later, Sgt. Miller was stationed at Ascension Island with the weather division of the Army Air Corps and Marjorie went to Camp Swift for basic training in the Army Nursing Corps as a 2nd Lieutenant. During July the Fifth War Loan was largely oversubscribed by the Sandy Spring section.
p. 260 - On Aug. 28th [1944] a telegram was received by Louis T. Bussler from the War Department bearing the sad news that his nephew Paul Bussler had been killed in action in France on Aug. 11th.
p. 262 - Oct 21st [1944] Virginia, daughter of Edward and Nellie Kelley Snowden was married to Mr. Rudolph Bouquet, son of Mr. and Mrs. G.P. Bouquet of Houma, La.
p. 271 - A list of Sherwood High School graduates discloses the fact that during the past year [1944-5] the following have entered the service of their country:...Marjorie Brigham Miller.
p. 278 - About this time [Sept. 1945] Marjorie Brigham Miller went to the Pacific Coast in her capacity as an Army nurse; she sailed from New York by way of the Panama Canal.
p. 279 - Elsie Brooke Snowden passed away Dec. 21st [1945] after a brief illness at Garfield Hospital in Washington. The daughter of Francis and Frances Brooke Snowden, she was born at Ingleside March 4th, 1887. After training at the Corcoran Art School in Washington and the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, she twice traveled abroad on scholarships from the Philadelphia Academy. She received recognition in the United States and Europe for her landscape and portrait paintings, and the Corcoran School honored her with its Annual Gold Medal. Interment was in the Friends Meeting House grounds at Sandy Spring. (E.T.S.)
p. 301 - On Dec. 6th [1946] Reuben Brigham died suddenly on a trip to the midwest where he had gone in his capacity as an extension worker in the Agriculture Department. This huge, somewhat gaunt, somewhat Lincolnesque fellow, who lumbered along like an old fashioned farm wagon, was biological mass of electronically fortified atoms. Born in Marlboro, Mass. in 1887, he grew up all over the world, wherever his father taught agriculture. In 1908 he graduated from the University of Maryland and spent the next five years farming in this state.
In 1913 he turned up as secretary and general assistant to Pres. Harry J. Patterson of the University of Maryland. Two years later he became Maryland's extension editor and also assumed charge of boys 4-H Club work. In 1917 he entered USDA to develop visual and editorial materials for extension work. He himself developed into a human institution. But all that doesn't say it. He was more than a man. He was a force. Warm, human, friendly, dynamic, as earthy as his pure farmer name, he was known all over the nation where many times he seemed to be the Department of Agriculture personified. No place was too small, no individual too inconsequential for him. He passed none by. Indefatigable, boundless in energy, incredible in production, outstanding career employee, Nature's own nobleman, a product of the soil--is interests never once flagged--until Dec. 6th when Reuben Brigham took off for more boundless horizons where his restless mind will find many unfinished tasks. (From USDA.)
p. 308 - On Friday, Feb. 7 [1947], a "Talent Show" was presented in the [Sherwood] auditorium. Barbara Woodward won first prize with a ballet dance, Dolores Beall, who sang and accompanied herself on the piano won second prize and the Heil sisters were third when they harmonized "Ol' Buttermilk Skies."
p. 308-9 - Among the transfers of property during the year [1946-7]... Robert W. and Margery [sic] Brigham Miller built and moved into a house on a portion of the Brigham property...
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