This collection contains photographs of descendants of Willie Brown (1799-1867) and Nancy Moye Brown of Greenville and Pitt County, North Carolina, especially through the line of their son Dr. William Moye Benjamin Brown (1823-1903) and his wife Jane Marie Greene. Also included are photographs of members of the Waldrop, Moore, Morrill/Morrell, Ernul, Cherry and Watts families related through the spouses of the children of Dr. William Moye Benjamin Brown and photographs (1920, undated but before 1908) of the James Brown home at 627 Dickinson Ave. in Greenville, N.C. Non-photographic material includes The Genealogy of the Lost Robert White Watts and his Descendants, by Lawrence A. Watts, Jr. (2006), relating to the Watts family of Lynchburg and Amherst County, Virginia and Greenville, North Carolina.
The people represented in these photographs are the descendants of Willie Brown (1799-1867) and Nancy Moye Brown of Greenville and Pitt County, North Carolina, especially through their son Dr. William Moye Benjamin Brown (1823-1903) and his wife Jane Marie Greene. Photographs of members of the Waldrop, Moore, Morrill/Morrell, Ernul, Cherry and Watts families relate to the spouses of James Brown, William Benjamin Brown, Wyatt Livingston Brown, Zeno Brown, Jane Brown Morrell and Wiley Brown (children of Dr. William Moye Benjamin Brown) and their children.
Source for family relationships: http://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.cfm/William-Moye-Benjamin-Brown/f28107#top, a website created by Ray Gurganus.
The bulk of this collection are photographs of the descendants of Willie Brown (1799-1867) and Nancy Moye Brown of Greenville and Pitt County, North Carolina. Photographs are either labeled with names, dates, or locations of family memebers.
Gift of William B. Kittrell
Encoded by Lindsay Flood, March 28, 2008
Description and Container List updated by Ashlyn Racine, August 2023.
Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.