Husband Col. Ewing Brownfield 1 2 3
Born: 7 Sep 1803 - near Winchester, Frederick Co, VA 1 4
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Died: 19 Feb 1889 - Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA 4
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Father: Thomas Brownfield ( -1829) 1 2 5 6
Mother: Elizabeth Fisher ( - ) 6
Marriage: 12 Apr 1842 4 7
Wife Julia A. Long 3 7
Born: 11 Dec 1816 3
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Died: 1903 4
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Father: Capt. Robert Long (1774-1848) 7 8
Mother: Jean Harah (1782- ) 9
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1 M Robert L. Brownfield 4 7
Born: 7 Feb 1842 4
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Spouse: Sophie E. Newlon ( - ) 4
2 F Anna E. Brownfield 4 7
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Spouse: William Huston ( - ) 4 7
3 F Virginia E. Brownfield 4 7
Born: Abt 1846
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Died: 1865 or 14 May 1872 - Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA 4 7
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General Notes: Husband - Col. Ewing Brownfield
He grew up in the old tavern, the White Swan, enjoyed the advantages of the common schools of that day, and when he reached fitting years assisted his father as clerk and overseer of the hotel until the father's death. In 1830, he and his brother John, later a prominent citizen of South Bend, Indiana, formed a partnership in the dry-goods business.
In early manhood Col. Brownfield conceived a great love for military discipline and display,-"the pomp and glory of the very name of war,"-and in a time of profound peace, when he was about twenty years of age, was one of the first to join a Union volunteer company at that time organized. It is one of Col. Brownfield's proud memories that upon the occasion of Gen. Lafayette's visit to Albert Gallatin, at New Geneva, in 1825, he, with several of his companions in arms, went on horseback, as military escort, to the residence of Mr. Gallatin, and were delightedly received by the latter gentleman and his renowned guest. About that time there came into Uniontown a certain Capt. Bolles, a graduate of West Point, who formed a military drill squad, of which Brownfield was a member. Under the tutelage of Capt. Bolles, Brownfield became proficient in company drill, also in battalion and field drill, etc. After the formation of the First Regiment of Fayette County volunteers, about 1828, Col. Brownfield, then a private, became an independent candidate for major of the regiment, and was elected over three strongly supported candi-dates. Holding the position for two years, he was thereafter, on the resignation of Col. Evans, elected colonel himself without opposition, and continued in the colonelcy for five years, receiving from Maj.-Gen. Henry W. Beeson, at that time a military authority of high repute, the distinguished compliment implied in the following voluntary plaudit bestowed upon his regiment, namely, "The First Fayette County Regiment of volunteers is among the very best field-drilled regiments in the State."
In 1832 he and his brother dissolved the partnership before referred to, Ewing continuing the business till 1836, when he "went West," and settled in Mishawaka, Indiana, again entering into the dry-goods business. But owing to the malarial character of the locality in that day, he decided to leave the place after a few months, and returned to Uniontown, where, in 1837, he resumed the dry-goods business. In the same year he bought a house and lot on the corner of Main and Arch Streets, tore away the old building, erected a new one, and there conducted his favorite business, continuing in the same from that date to 1862. In the latter year he disposed of his dry-goods interests, and from that time to 1872 was engaged, for the most part, in the wool business. In 1873 he was elected president of the People's Bank.