John F Browning was a son of William and Elizabeth Atkinson Browning. The children of William and Elizabeth Atkinson Browning were:

 

John F. Browning, dates unknown

Henrietta E. Browning, b. Oct. 22, 1805, d. Oct. 24, 1834

Pemelia Browning, b. Sept. 9, 1806, d. Dec. 16, 1826, married William Browning Haralson on Apr. 3, 1823 in Dallas County, Alabama

Albert Gallatin Browning, b. Nov. 22, 1807, d. Oct. 24, 1934

Eliza Browning, b. about 1809, d. after 1880, married George Walker on Mar. 4, 1829, Montgomery County, Alabama

Julia Ann Browning, b. Apr. 11, 1811, d. May 14, 1842, married David A. Steele on Oct. 4, 1831 in Lowndes County, Alabama

James Monroe Browning, b. June 10, 1817, d. Aug. 3, 1839

Egbert Browning, b. Nov. 11, 1822, d. Sept. 5, 1836

Emily Browning, b. about 1830, married John D. F. Williams Jan. 9, 1849 in

Lowndes County, Alabama

 

Henrietta, Pemelia, Albert, Julia Ann, James Monroe, and Egbert are all buried with their parents in the Mt. Gilead/Trickem Cemetery near Benton, Lowndes County, Alabama

 

 

Will of John F. Browning

Will Book B, page 82

Lowndes Co., AL

 

I, John F. Browning, of Lowndes County, Alabama, being now in Albemarle County, Virginia, do make this my last will and testament.

 

I give and bequeath my rifle gun to my friend Reuben Mundy of Lowndes County, Alabama.

 

I give and bequeath all my books to my brother James M. Browning.

 

I give and bequeath all the rest of my estate o property, real and personal

including my interest in lands in the aforesaid Lowndes County and all other

estate, right and interests to which I am or at my death may be entitled to be

equally divided between my said brother James and my sister Emily Browning of the same County.

 

I appoint James M. Browning Executor of this my Will and I desire that he may not be required to give security for the execution of that trust.

 

In witness whereof, I have hereunto put my hand and seal this 28th day of July eighteen hundred and thirty eight.

                                                John F. Browning (seal)

 

Signed, sealed, acknowledged, published And declared by John F. Browning as for his Last will and testament before us who subscribed

our names as witness hereto in his presence at his request

John D. Bradley (seal)

Simson A. Watts (seal)

Charles Minor (seal)

 

I believe that my sister Emily’s full name is Emily E. Browning, but James

appeared so certain that she had not a middle name that I was _____ to leave the E out.  There can be no doubt about whom I mean by Emily Browning, and if it should turn out that she has a middle name and any advantage is taken of her on that account to cut her of from enjoining what little I have left her, I hope that whoever takes such advantage will meet with that contempt indignation which his or her baseness will deserve.

 

                              John F. Browning

 

State of Alabama

Lowndes County

 

Personally appeared in open Court Simson A. Watts and being duly sworn upon the Holy Gospels of God desposeth saith that he was present and heard John Browning the decedent in his lifetime acknowledges that he did sign, seal and publish the foregoing instrument in writing as his last Will and Testament and that he was at the time of his signing the same of sound disposing mind and memory and that the said Simson A. Watts did with John D. Bradley and Charles Minor sign the same as witnesses in the presence of said John Browning, dec’d, in his lifetime  and al in the presence of each other.  Sworn to in open Court and subscribed this 9th day of March, 1840.

                             S. A. Watt