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FAMILY NAME S CHAN GE Families of the area called Brunswick fall into three categories: Some survive directly from citizens who lived within this town before it became incorpor ated a hundred years ago, with or without the same surname - women's names change in marriage. Some family names that were here, even in great numbers , before 1890, have totally disappeared. And some names arrived after 1890- even in recent years - and may or may not remain here any length of time. A samplin g of each group follows:John Hymes owned property here in 1793, and in 1836 Samuel Hymes bought property . He married George H. Hogan's daughte r, and William Harringt on and Jody Harringt on are direct descendents of that couple. C. F. Wenner bought the property of the Brunswick flour mill (destroy ed by fire in 1972), and Judge William Wenner descend s from his lineage. William W. Wenner owned the farm at the west end of town. George W. Wenner and Evelyn Wenner McLane and the children of these two families remain here. G. Samuel Wenner was a widelyknown and influential business man. Four of his grandch ildren, Mary Kearfott, Ernestine Phillips, Frank and John Wenner, and some of their progeny make their homes in Brunswick. Emma Howe Rhoeder and Anna May Howe Moler are survived by Gretchen Jane Moler Rollison. Len (Leonard), and Lawson House acquired property in Berlin in 1873 and 1868 as shown on Arthur Lutman's Berlin maps; they and Lewis House have three direct descend ents in town: Irma House Merriman, Eileen House Jenkins, and Jeanette House Ephraim. Clarence Columb us Hardy lived in Brunswick by 1890, and his daughte r Lydia Campbell and his great-gre at grandda ughters Kaye Coates and Delores King and numerou s other descend ents live here today. William Hardy is a grandso n of both Clarence Hardy and of Dr. William Henry Bell, who lived in Brunswick and was honored as a Distinguished Citizen in 1989. The Sigafoose name shows up in property transactions to John (1789) and Peter (1791), and Scoll was rememb ered as a keeper of Lock 30 of the C&O Canal; John Sigafoose, son of Johnny, keeps the family name alive today. Jim King has two grandsons in Brunswick: Charlie and William King, and nine great-gra ndchildr en. Laura Virginia "Ginny" Smith was in Brunswick in 1880. She married Jacob Moler; Joanne Runkles, Juanita Good, Robert and Forrest Moler, Jr., descend from "Ginny." William Cooper, a pre-
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Revolution multiple "great" grandfat her of Misses Elsie and Helen Cooper, lived here when it was still being called German Crossing. George Hood, father of Miss Georgia Hood, was here before the Civil War. Some names, numerou s a generati on or two ago, have no direct descend ents remainin g in Brunswick. Included in this group are John L. Jordan, Johnny Ball, Edward Hudson, Dr. A. G. Horine, Joseph Waltman, and John Short. Finally, since the phenom enal growth of Brunswick in recent years, new names are taking their place in the town's history. This group contains names selected randomly from the telephon e book: Allison, Barkman, Barron, Delashm utt, Embrey, Fauntleroy, Gardner, Gibson, Gillikin, Glascock, Kasch, Kyle, Nestler, Quesenb erry, Sofranko, Upton, and Wolford. Perhaps in Brunswick's bicentennial book, some of these last names will be included as old time residents. S - Above families W-MM M
BRUNS WICK HISTO RIC DISTRICT The National Register of Historic Places is an official list ofour nation's cultural resources worthy of preserva tion, but a listing on the Regi_s_ter is no guarante e of preservation. lt serves to alert the public to the value of somethin g historical; it helps in the preserva tion efforts to save a threaten ed item. A "recent-comer" to Brunswick, Connie Koenig became convin_c ed in 1974 that Brunswick's history is unique and should be preserve d, that local people would have more pride in the town's history if they saw the apprecia tion of others for its past. She undertoo k alone the mammo th task of preparin g a nominat ion form for the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service. Two years later the acceptance for the Register made a particula rly meaning ful U.S. Bicentennial gift for the town. The area originally designat ed for citation extends (roughly) from Central Avenue east on "B" Street to Delawar e Avenue, up the west side and down the east side of Delawar e to "C" Street, east on "C" to Second Avenue, south to "C" Street at Terrace Avenue, across Gum Spring Hollow to Park Avenue to Ninth Avenue, south to "B" Street, east on "B" Street to Tenth Avenue, down to the Potomac River. West along the river to Dutchm an Creek, north to Brunswick Street, east to Central Avenue, north to point of beginnin g. Brunswi ck's