Jeremiah M. "Jerry" Browning

GEDCOM Note

NAME:

• **Many spellings of the first name found. Death certificate has Jerimah.

PHOTO:

• **Filed with his wife's obituary.

MARRIAGE:

• **Marriage performed by Hez. Dobbs, Minister

MILITARY:

• **Fought in Confederate Army in the Civil War - was a scout for the Confederates.

STORIES ABOUT HIS ARMY DAYS (probably got these from Sharron Browning Elrod:

• **"One day he was home building a fence, and the northern soldiers rode up and told him to come on with them. He said, 'If you'll just give me 2 or 3 days I'll have this picket fence finished and I'll come join you.' They said, 'right now.' He ran and jumped the picket fence, and got away with them chasing and shooting at him. He could run like a deer, and always outran them. They were after him a lot." [source unknown]
  • *"Another time he was being chased by a group of men, they had horses and he was afoot. He wasn't very far from home, and they had a neighbor woman, an old maid lady. She was in the yard, watering her horse. She saw him running down the lane with the horsemen after him. She had a stile over her yard fence, and she ran up over the stile, and the horse was blind but followed her like a dog. She ran to meet Jeramiah, and said, 'here Jerry take my horse' and shoved the halter rope into his hand. He leaped upon the horse and made a ride for it. They chased him for about three miles and shot the horse from under him. It fell on his leg and he couldn't get out from under it. So he played dead. The men rode up on their horses and sat and talked for a few minutes and said, 'well we finally got him'. Then they rode on. After they were gone awhile he managed to get his leg from under the horse, and took off through the brush. He heard horses feet behind him and hid in a thicket. In a few minutes that blind horse had tracked him rite where he was hid. It had come to." [source unknown]
    • "He had a neighbor man that looked like him [Jeremiah]. They killed him and thought they had killed Jerry. So they took one of his younger brothers, one of Jerry's brothers, I think uncle Fate, and showed him this man, and said, 'this is Jerry isn't it.' He said no, and they kep trying to make him say it was. He, I believe was 7 years old. So they hanged him, let him down and asked him again. He would say 'NO' and they would hang him again and did that about seven times. Finally he had a cousin in the group, he said 'boys that is enough', so they didn't hang him any more that time. Another time they came to great-granma Brownings house, and tried to make uncle Fate tell where Jerry was, he wouldn't. So they hanged him and left. Granma ran out of the house and cut him down and revived him. They came back several times and repeated the horrible thing. Granma would take her butcher knife and cut him down and bring him to."
    • "One time when the men were after him [Jeremiah] he was a ventrilequist, and could throw his voice. So he was hid pretty good. He began to give orders and rally men like he had an army. He made all kinds of different noises and the men after him fled, so he got away again."

RESIDENCES:

• **Lived in Grove, OK. in Dec 1910

CENSUS REPORTS:

• **1870 - McDonald Co Census - Other info received from Shoal Creek, Barry Co., MO Census
  • *1880 census lists him as being maimed or crippled.

DEATH/BURIAL/OBIT:

• **Shelt-Noel Cemetery - photo of grave stone filed with this family.
  • *Death Certificate which is filed with this family, states that he was under the doctor's care from Nov 12, 1929 to Nov 18 which was the last time the doctor saw him alive. The death date is written 11-23 1929.
    • Obit was in the Pineville Herald, 29 Nov 1929
    • James D. Browning sent a photo of Jeremiah Browning & Josephone Caldwell Browning's grave stone. It is filed with this family.