George W. Browning
George W. Browning was born around 1829 in Pennsylvania to Joseph Browning and Sarah Ann Coleman. His mother died around 1830. He married a woman named Cinderella around 1849, and their son Emmett was born around 1860. In 1850, the couple was living in Athens, Pennsylvania, and Browning was working as a mason. They apparently moved to Cuyahoga County, Ohio, by the late 1850s.
 
Browning enlisted in the Union army on December 20, 1861, and mustered in as a private in Company E of the 54th Ohio Infantry. As he explained to his wife, he went "into the army out of Pure love for my country and any thing I can do and not complicate my honor I will do." He was promoted to 2nd lieutenant on February 5, 1862, and he took part in the Battles of Shiloh, Corinth, and Chickasaw Bayou. He probably supported the Democratic Party, and he published an account of the Battle of Shiloh in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He resigned on February 13, 1863, and returned to Cuyahoga County. He wrote to his wife that was returning "to my Beloved family, if not in health [then] with a clear consience that I have discharge[d] my duty as A soldier to my country." 
 
By 1870, the family was living in Erie County, Pennsylvania, and Browning owned $3,000 of real estate and $800 of personal property. Cinderella died around 1875, and he married Alice O. Seek around 1879. Their daughter Alice was born around 1880, and Browning also adopted a daughter named Nellie sometime before 1875. He applied for a federal pension in June 1880 and received one shortly afterward. He died in Erie County on September 18, 1892.
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(247)Browning, George W.18291892-09-18
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Private
  • Rank out: 2nd Lieutenant
  • Rank highest: 2nd Lieutenant
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 86

  • (951) [recipient] ~ J. R. Woods to George W. Browning and Cinderella R. Browning, 15 April 1863
  • (954) [recipient] ~ Unknown to George W. Browning, 23 March 1862
  • (955) [recipient] ~ Albert Holcomb to George W. Browning, 3 May 1862
  • (956) [recipient] ~ Gaston G. Allen to George W. Browning, 2 March 1862
  • (958) [recipient] ~ Henry Richardson to George W. Browning, 25 May 1862
  • (959) [recipient] ~ Tina M. Brower to George W. Browning, 29 March 1862
  • (960) [recipient] ~ Reuben F. Browning to George W. Browning, 5 December 1862
  • (961) [recipient] ~ J. R. Woods to George W. Browning, 13 May 1862
  • (963) [recipient] ~ J. T. Logee to George W. Browning, 14 May 1862
  • (964) [associated with] ~ Manuscript Recipe for Madder Red Clothing Dye, undated
  • (965) [recipient] ~ Pabuck (?) to George W. Browning, 8 April 1863
  • (966) [recipient] ~ Gaston G. Allen to George W. Browning, 11 May 1862
  • (967) [recipient] ~ Pert (?) to George W. Browning, undated
  • (968) [recipient] ~ Adelia W. Browning to George W. Browning and Cinderella R. Browning, undated
  • (969) [recipient] ~ George Smith to George W. Browning, 30 November 1862
  • (971) [recipient] ~ Charles Prouty to George W. Browning, 15 November 1862
  • (972) [recipient] ~ Gaston G. Allen to George W. Browning, 6 April 1862
  • (974) [recipient] ~ Sarah J. Gleson to George W. Browning, 29 June 186X
  • (975) [recipient] ~ Mason S. Browning and Adelia W. Browning to George W. Browning, undated
  • (976) [recipient] ~ Reuben F. Browning to George W. Browning, 4 January 1863
  • (977) [recipient] ~ Charles W. Browning to George W. Browning, 6 May 1862
  • (978) [recipient] ~ Charles Prouty to George W. Browning, 4 November 1864
  • (979) [recipient] ~ Reuben F. Browning and Adelia W. Browning to George W. Browning and Cinderella R. Browning, 20 July 1862
  • (983) [recipient] ~ Charles W. Browning to George W. Browning, 4 October 1864
  • (984) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella Browning, 1863
  • (985) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, undated
  • (986) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Parmelia Buxton, 20 April 1860
  • (987) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 5 November 1862
  • (988) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 17 December 1862
  • (989) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 16 February 1863
  • (990) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, undated
  • (991) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, undated
  • (992) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Marlin (?), 7 December 1862
  • (993) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 24 October 1862
  • (994) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 5 September 1862
  • (995) [recipient] ~ Charles F. Trenk to George W. Browning, 29 March 1863
  • (996) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 25 September 1862
  • (997) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 3 April 1862
  • (998) [recipient] ~ Charles Prouty and George W. Browning, 21 November 1864
  • (999) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, undated
  • (1000) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, undated
  • (1001) [recipient] ~ Cinderella R. Browning to George W. Browning, 1 April 1862
  • (1002) [recipient] ~ Charles Prouty and Cinderella R. Browning to George W. Browning, 22 September 1862
  • (1003) [recipient] ~ Cinderella R. Browning to George W. Browning, 24 August 1862
  • (1004) [recipient] ~ Cinderella R. Browning to George W. Browning, 7 September 1862
  • (1005) [recipient] ~ Cinderella R. Browning to George W. Browning, 25 April 1862
  • (1006) [recipient] ~ Cinderella R. Browning to George W. Browning, 26 March 1862
  • (1008) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 1 May 1862
  • (1009) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, undated
  • (1010) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 4 November 1862
  • (1011) [recipient] ~ Granville M. White to George W. Browning, 7 September 1862
  • (1012) [recipient] ~ Granville M. White to George W. Browning, 29 August 1862
  • (1013) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 29 August 1862
  • (1014) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 19 October 1862
  • (1015) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 22 September 1862
  • (1016) [writer] ~ George W. Browning Statement, 1862
  • (1017) [recipient] ~ Lewis Burnham to George W. Browning, 26 June 1862
  • (1018) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 22 May 1862
  • (1019) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 22 August 186X
  • (1020) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 29 November 1862
  • (1021) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 1 February 1863
  • (1022) [recipient] ~ Charles W. Browning to George W. Browning, 24 February 1863
  • (1023) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 13 September 1862
  • (1024) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 2 January 1863
  • (1025) [recipient] ~ Cinderella R. Browning to George W. Browning, 11 January 1863
  • (1026) [recipient] ~ Cinderella R. Browning to George W. Browning, undated
  • (1027) [recipient] ~ Cinderella R. Browning to George W. Browning, undated
  • (1028) [recipient] ~ Cinderella R. Browning to George W. Browning, 25 February 1862
  • (1029) [recipient] ~ Cinderella R. Browning to George W. Browning, 9 March 1862
  • (1030) [recipient] ~ Edward P. Browning and Charles W. Browning to George W. Browning and Cinderella R. Browning, 24 May 1862
  • (1031) [recipient] ~ Benjamin Wygant to George W. Browning, 7 October 186X
  • (1032) [recipient] ~ Darwin L. Morse to George W. Browning, 14 March 186X
  • (1034) [recipient] ~ Edward P. Browning to George W. Browning, 18 April 1862
  • (1035) [recipient] ~ Cinderella R. Browning, George W. Browning, 12 November 1862
  • (1036) [recipient] ~ Cinderella R. Browning to George W. Browning, 7 April 1862
  • (1037) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 15 August 1862
  • (1039) [recipient] ~ Reuben F. Browning and Adelia W. Browning to George W. Browning, 27 April 1862
  • (1042) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 3 January 1863
  • (1043) [recipient] ~ Cinderella R. Browning to George W. Browning, 3 April 1862
  • (1044) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, undated
  • (1045) [recipient] ~ Sarah J. Glezen to George W. Browning, 27 March 1862
  • (1049) [recipient] ~ C. E. Palmer to George W. Browning, 16 December 1864
  • (1051) [recipient] ~ M. G. Browning to George W. Browning, 10 September 1862
  • (5021) [writer] ~ George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, undated
  • (5022) [recipient] ~ F. L. Richardson to George W. Browning, undated
  • (5023) [recipient] ~ Sarah J. Glezen to George W. Browning, 11 June 1862

People - Records: 3

  • (247) Browning, George W. is the [husband of] (248) Browning, Cinderella R.
  • (247) Browning, George W. is the [sibling of] (257) Browning, Reuben Furman
  • (247) Browning, George W. is the [sibling of] (266) Browning, Charles W.

Places - Records: 2

  • (277) [birth] ~ Pennsylvania
  • (549) [death] ~ Erie County, Pennsylvania

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (59) [enlisted] [E] ~ 54th Ohio Infantry
SOURCES

1850, 1870, and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Tax Lists, 1819-1869, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Pension Index, 1861-1934, available from Ancestry.com; Pennsylvania Veterans Burial Cards, 1777-2012, available from Ancestry.com; George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 5 November 1862, DL0152.038, Nau Collection; George W. Browning to Cinderella R. Browning, 1 January 1863, DL0152.074, Nau Collection