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Note: He was burried in a masonic ceremony. Married at home by the congergational minister. Captain of an independant Malitia company Was a Baptist From Genealogical and family history of northern New York Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1910 Page 340 Levi DeWitt, son of Deacon Levi Brown, was born at Lewis, Essex county, New York, June 1, 1814, died in Elizabethtown, February 4, 1866. He received a common school education in his native town. He worked on his father's farm during boyhood and made farming his occupation in later years. In politics he was an active Democrat. He was for many years a deputy sheriff, and was for a time in charge of the county jail, he was supervisor of the town during the trying period of the civil war. He had a reputation for cleverness as a detective. He was active in raising troops for the Union army, and was captain of a local company of militia. He was one of the organizers of the Elizabethtown and Westport Plank Road Company. He was a member of the local lodge of Free Masons. In religion he was a Baptist. He married Lovina Kneeland, born November 24, 1820. She is living at Elizabethtown, New York. "All the children were born in Elizabethtown and brought up largely on a farm, being bred to live religious, temperate, industrious lives, both parents being Baptists. That the escutcheon of the Brown family has never been tarnished by any act of her children and that not one of them has ever brought reproach to her fair name, a kind and loving mother can now say, in her old age, without fear of contradiction". From: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hubbard/NNY_index/brown.html Levi DeWitt, son of Deacon Levi Brown, was born at Lewis, Essex county, N.Y., June 1, 1814, died in Elizabethtown, Feb. 4, 1866. He received a common school education in his native town. He worked on his father's farm during boyhood and made farming his occupation in later years. In politics he was an active Democrat. He was for many years a deputy sheriff, and was for a time in charge of the county jail; he was supervisor of the town during the trying period of the civil war. He had a reputation for cleverness as a detective. He was active in raising troops for the Union army, and was captain of a local company of militia. He was one of the organizers of the Elizabethtown and Westport Plank Road Company. He was a member of the local lodge of Free Masons. In religion he was a Baptist. He married Lovina Kneeland, born Nov. 24, 1820. She is living at Elizabethtown, N.Y. "All the children were born in Elizabethtown and brought up largely on a farm, being bred to live religious, temperate, industrious lives, both parents being Baptists. That the escutcheon of the Brown family has never been tarnished by any act of her chldren and that not one of them has ever brought reproach to her fair name, a kind and loving moterh can now say, in her old age, without fear of contradiction." Children: 1. Augusta Prudence, born April, 1843; married Edward J. Smith; she died at Fort Ann, N.Y. in 1877, and was buried there; their son, Edward Lvi, and daughter, Minnie A., lived in Maryland. 2. Friend Abner, born March 20, 1846; married Hila E. Partridge and lives on a farm in the Boquiet Valley. 3. John Kneeland, born June, 1850; married Lizzie N. James; they have one daughter. 4. Walter Scott, born Jan. 9, 1854, superintendent of the Adirondack Mountain Reserve; married Mary L. Pond, and has one daughter, Mary Elizabeth. 5. George Levi He was burried in a masonic ceremony. Married at home by the congergational minister.
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