As written by F.A.G. contributor Margaret (# 47118174)
George Brown, Private,19th Infantry Regiment, Company, United States Colored Troops, Civil War.
George Brown was born 1833 in Charles County, Maryland. He married Emily Thomas and together, they raised five children. After Emily died, George married Sarah Queen and seven children were born to this union. The family attended St. Ignatius Catholic Church, Hilltop, Charles County; later they switched to St. Catherine's Catholic Church in McConchie (a few miles to the east) after it was erected in 1911.
George made the decision to join the Union Army to help fight for freedom from slavery. On 15 Dec. 1863, he bid his family farewell and went to Camp Stanton in Benedict, Maryland to train with the infantry of the 19th Regiment, Company I, United States Colored Troops. On 30 July 1864, he was wounded in action in a battle near Petersburg,
Virginia. After George was discharged, he returned to his
home severely injured. In order to help him work to support his large family, the Jesuit Priests of Port Tobacco (St. Ignatius Chapel Point) allowed him to farm property that they owned at Blossom Point, in southern Charles county.
When George Brown died in 1916, he was buried at St. Catherine's Church cemetery in McConchie, but his grave remained unmarked for many years. In the 1950s, Reverend Edward O'Connell of St. Ignatius Hilltop began trying to obtain a gravestone for the grave. Both of these churches have shared a pastor for many years. In 2008, a Civil War Veteran Marker and gravestone were finally placed at his
gravesite and there was a ceremony in his honor.
REST IN PEACE, George Brown
****
St. Ignatius Loyola at Chapel Point and Hilltop are separate churches in different areas of Charles county though both have a mailing address of Port Tobacco, Md.
So does St. Catherine of Alexandria which is in between both of them but shares a pastor with the Hilltop church.
George Brown, Private,19th Infantry Regiment, Company, United States Colored Troops, Civil War.
George Brown was born 1833 in Charles County, Maryland. He married Emily Thomas and together, they raised five children. After Emily died, George married Sarah Queen and seven children were born to this union. The family attended St. Ignatius Catholic Church, Hilltop, Charles County; later they switched to St. Catherine's Catholic Church in McConchie (a few miles to the east) after it was erected in 1911.
George made the decision to join the Union Army to help fight for freedom from slavery. On 15 Dec. 1863, he bid his family farewell and went to Camp Stanton in Benedict, Maryland to train with the infantry of the 19th Regiment, Company I, United States Colored Troops. On 30 July 1864, he was wounded in action in a battle near Petersburg,
Virginia. After George was discharged, he returned to his
home severely injured. In order to help him work to support his large family, the Jesuit Priests of Port Tobacco (St. Ignatius Chapel Point) allowed him to farm property that they owned at Blossom Point, in southern Charles county.
When George Brown died in 1916, he was buried at St. Catherine's Church cemetery in McConchie, but his grave remained unmarked for many years. In the 1950s, Reverend Edward O'Connell of St. Ignatius Hilltop began trying to obtain a gravestone for the grave. Both of these churches have shared a pastor for many years. In 2008, a Civil War Veteran Marker and gravestone were finally placed at his
gravesite and there was a ceremony in his honor.
REST IN PEACE, George Brown
****
St. Ignatius Loyola at Chapel Point and Hilltop are separate churches in different areas of Charles county though both have a mailing address of Port Tobacco, Md.
So does St. Catherine of Alexandria which is in between both of them but shares a pastor with the Hilltop church.
As written by F.A.G. contributor Margaret (# 47118174)
George Brown, Private,19th Infantry Regiment, Company, United States Colored Troops, Civil War.
George Brown was born 1833 in Charles County, Maryland. He married Emily Thomas and together, they raised five children. After Emily died, George married Sarah Queen and seven children were born to this union. The family attended St. Ignatius Catholic Church, Hilltop, Charles County; later they switched to St. Catherine's Catholic Church in McConchie (a few miles to the east) after it was erected in 1911.
George made the decision to join the Union Army to help fight for freedom from slavery. On 15 Dec. 1863, he bid his family farewell and went to Camp Stanton in Benedict, Maryland to train with the infantry of the 19th Regiment, Company I, United States Colored Troops. On 30 July 1864, he was wounded in action in a battle near Petersburg,
Virginia. After George was discharged, he returned to his
home severely injured. In order to help him work to support his large family, the Jesuit Priests of Port Tobacco (St. Ignatius Chapel Point) allowed him to farm property that they owned at Blossom Point, in southern Charles county.
When George Brown died in 1916, he was buried at St. Catherine's Church cemetery in McConchie, but his grave remained unmarked for many years. In the 1950s, Reverend Edward O'Connell of St. Ignatius Hilltop began trying to obtain a gravestone for the grave. Both of these churches have shared a pastor for many years. In 2008, a Civil War Veteran Marker and gravestone were finally placed at his
gravesite and there was a ceremony in his honor.
REST IN PEACE, George Brown
****
St. Ignatius Loyola at Chapel Point and Hilltop are separate churches in different areas of Charles county though both have a mailing address of Port Tobacco, Md.
So does St. Catherine of Alexandria which is in between both of them but shares a pastor with the Hilltop church.
George Brown, Private,19th Infantry Regiment, Company, United States Colored Troops, Civil War.
George Brown was born 1833 in Charles County, Maryland. He married Emily Thomas and together, they raised five children. After Emily died, George married Sarah Queen and seven children were born to this union. The family attended St. Ignatius Catholic Church, Hilltop, Charles County; later they switched to St. Catherine's Catholic Church in McConchie (a few miles to the east) after it was erected in 1911.
George made the decision to join the Union Army to help fight for freedom from slavery. On 15 Dec. 1863, he bid his family farewell and went to Camp Stanton in Benedict, Maryland to train with the infantry of the 19th Regiment, Company I, United States Colored Troops. On 30 July 1864, he was wounded in action in a battle near Petersburg,
Virginia. After George was discharged, he returned to his
home severely injured. In order to help him work to support his large family, the Jesuit Priests of Port Tobacco (St. Ignatius Chapel Point) allowed him to farm property that they owned at Blossom Point, in southern Charles county.
When George Brown died in 1916, he was buried at St. Catherine's Church cemetery in McConchie, but his grave remained unmarked for many years. In the 1950s, Reverend Edward O'Connell of St. Ignatius Hilltop began trying to obtain a gravestone for the grave. Both of these churches have shared a pastor for many years. In 2008, a Civil War Veteran Marker and gravestone were finally placed at his
gravesite and there was a ceremony in his honor.
REST IN PEACE, George Brown
****
St. Ignatius Loyola at Chapel Point and Hilltop are separate churches in different areas of Charles county though both have a mailing address of Port Tobacco, Md.
So does St. Catherine of Alexandria which is in between both of them but shares a pastor with the Hilltop church.
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