Green Hill was named after George Green
6. Cyrus Foster Brown 1 was born on 18 Aug 1833 in Dunns Eddy, Warren Co., PA. He died on 12 Feb 1907 in Warren Co, PA and was buried in Sanford Cemetery, Sanford, PA. Eldred Twp. Warren County. Cyrus married Martha Jane Goodwill on 4 Oct 1857 in Blooming Valley, Crawford Co., PA. [Parents]
*living next door to Absolom in 1860 census-Adeliade Goodwill living
with family-June 16, 1860This story was found in an old Brown notebook and provided to me by Elaine Lydick:
WHY CYRUS BROWN USED NO TOBACCO
"Cyrus, Like most country children, received his education in 'the little red school house'. One year, his teacher, being a man, used tobacco and had a habit of leaving the old fashioned 'plug' on the window sill, where, should any of the scholars feel so inclined, they could help themselves. Cyrus did just that -- and became quite proficient in the 'art', if it can be so called."
"One night he went home with some in his mouth, which did not escape his mother's attention. She said to him, 'Cy, what have you in your mouth?' Knowing better thatn to lie to her, he told her the truth, where upon she said for him to follow her."
"They went into the backyard and she applied a barrel stave to the seat of his pants with no little force, thereby taking all the taste of tobacco from him, and he never used it in any form."
7. Martha Jane Goodwill 1 was born on 27 Jul 1835 in Blooming Valley, Crawford Co., PA. She died on 13 Nov 1900 in Warren Co, PA. [Parents]
A Nov. 1900 newspaper lists this obituary in the Sanford News:
Died, at her home at Sanford, Nov. 13, at 3 a.m. Martha J. Brown, aged 65 yrs. 3 mos. 27 das.
Mrs. Brown was born at Meadville, PA. July 27, 1835, and was the daughter of Cyrus and
Phoeba Goodwill. She was married to Cyrus Brown on Oct. 4 1857, by Rev. Bowers.Un 18 monthes, death has stricken four from this family: Her brother, [George Goodwill,]
May 1899; her mother, May 1900; her sister, [Henrietta Sturgis,] June 1900.The deceased is survived by her husband and four children -- Mrs. Lydia Putnam of Kansas,
Mrs. B. [Bert] Wilson, Fred Brown and Archie Brown of Sanford. She has seventeen
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. A sister, Mrs. [E. Thomnson] Burns [Lydia], and
two brothers, Horace Goodwill and Albert Goodwill, also survive.The deceased was a consistent christian, a kind neighbor, a devoted wife and mother.