Shep's Place Family Tree

BROWN--RUTTENCUTTER
One of the prettiest home weddings occured in Mason today at the home of the bride's parents at high noon when Miss Willie Ruttencutter and Mr. Miles O. Brown were united in marriage Rev. Gilmore of the Methodist church officiating. Only the immediate family and the near relatives were present. The bride was becomingly attired in white messaline and the groom conventional black. The whole affair was beautiful in simplicity and lack of ostentation. The home was tastefully and prettily decorated in native flowers, crimson ramblers and white lilies predominating.
The groom, a son of Matthew Brown of Hartford city, is an energetic, wide awake businessman employ of the railroad company at Holloway, Ohio.
The bride is the youngest daughter of W.E. Ruttencutter, of Mason City, and when she leaves the...she will be missed by the warm...of friends that has surrounded her from her childhood. The best wishes of the entire community go with the young people.
After a trip to Richmond and other points Mr. and Mrs. Brown will reside at Holloway, Ohio.
The out of town guests were: Moses Morgan and daughter Sadie and Stanley Morgan and James Jarrette, of Jackson, Ohio, Miss SarahWelton, Rockland, California, Mr. and Mrs. John Heslop and family of Point Pleasant, Mr. and Mrs. Juhling and little daughter of New Haven, Mr. and Mrs. Waters, of Gallipolis, Mrs. Will Foglesong, of Bluefield, Capt. M.D. Brown, Mrs. Alice Banks, Iva Hayden, Dr. and Mrs. C.W. Petty and daughter, and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Guinther and children, Maud, Jennie, Alice and Martha of Hartford, Mrs. E. E. Eisenbarth and children, Agnes and Eugene, of Marrietta, E.N. Brown, Evelyn Pa...Miss Virginia Cook, of Parkersburg, Geo. Brown and daughter, of Ken...J.A. Anderson, of Holloway, and Prof. and Mrs. D.A. Alexander of Portland.

"Willie Ruttencutter washed her hair one-half hour before the wedding. I can remember her drying her hair under the grape arbor. William Jennings Bryant came to Mason that fall. Mr. Ruttencutter was very strong for him."

Jan. 1 Income for 1935 $2537.90 Harold and Max home on holiday vacations
Feb 27 This Diary given to me by T.A. Lemaster
March 1 Max left for Buckhannon at 11am wrote Jennie ‎[Miles' older sister]‎ a letter, nice clear sun shiny day but cool off from work today resting 1st day off for 5 weeks
Mar 3 Nice, warm and sunshiny day Home at 5 20 pm Mama finished covering porch swing
Mar 4 Saw first robin on way home
Mar 5 Had a letter from Max and one from Paul Ruttencutter.
Mar 7 Slight snow fall during last night - ground white, Home at 6 pm-Mama went to see the ‎[Dion]‎ quintuplets this pm at the Fairmont Theater, Sun came out and day was nice and warm
Mar 11 Rain all day - warm Got my hair cut, went to Court house to file federal income tax return was told I need not file return $2537.90 Had a letter from Max and one from Auntie,
Mar 17 Rained hard all morning until 12 K then hail and sleet until 2 pm, then into heavy snow, over 3 1/2" snow fall by 5pm. Home at 5 20 pm Monongahela River and Buffalo Creek nearly out of banks Fairmont roads covered by water, isolated from other towns, 9 pm and snowing hard
Mar 19 Called Jennie at Marietta 8 30 pm she was OK and moved up to 2nd floor- Train 44 S Eng‎[ine]‎ hit a rock at Littleton and Eng‎[ine]‎ turned over, injuring Eugene Peel-Wheeling & Parkersburg flooded
Mar 23 Cloudy. Warm and some rain- Home at 5 15pm still feeling bad--Mama got her new dress "Green" Gave $5 to "Red Cross"
Mar 25 Monongahela River this morning was highest in history of Fairmont all low lands flooded Mama sent for flower seeds
Mar 29 Worked all day, had entire car force working Max left, 10 30 pm for Buckhannon Home. very tired, not feeling so good, Mama not feel good either-
Mar 31 Bruno Hamptmann led into death house, was about to be electrocuted, was given 48 hours stay of execution until grand jury reports on Wendell who is supposed to have confessed to the crime
April 3 Bruno Richard Hamptmann to be electrocuted at 8 pm--was pronounced dead at 8:47 1/2 pm died bravely, praying from his cell to electric chair, says he was innocent, who knows? Harold & Eloise came home 9 30 pm
April 4 2" of snow this morning--Home at 5 10pm Harold came to roundhouse after me, Mama, Eloise, Harold & I went to "Fairmont" showing Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper, "The Desire"
April 11 Had a card from Martha ‎[Juhling]‎ Sent us Florences baby's picture Jay Bebbe and Beulah Freed married at Parkersburg
April 15 Mom and I set out bed of onion sets.
April 23 Had a letter from Harold & card from Florence - she being in Bermuda.

Athens Messenger
Hunting Needs
Enjoy the new fall to its fullest with new hunting equipment. We've everything here--from bullets to clothes--to make this Hunting Season the most successful ever.
Shotguns
22 Rifles - Bolt, Pump and Lever Action
Winchester 30-30 Rifles
Shotgun Shells, etc
BROWN'S
Sporting Goods
Phone 218-M
385 2nd St., Middleport

1930: Miles, 46, and Willie, 40, Brown with Harold, 18 and Max, 13, lived in Parkersburg, Wood County, where they rented their home for $40 a month. Miles continued to work for the B&O Railroad. Harold had already finished his first year at Ohio University.

Miles O. Brown, Boating Family Scion, Is Dead
‎[This article is a confused combination of Miles Oscar Brown and his uncle Miles H. Brown, who really was the boating family scion!]‎
Miles O. Brown, 76, scion of a Gallipolis steamboat family, died shortly after midnight today while en route to Holzer Hospital from home in Mason, W.Va. His death followed a heart attack.
He was born here on May 28, 1881, the son of the late Capt. and Mrs. Miles Brown. His father along with a brother operated steamboats that operated in this sector of the Ohio Valley ‎[He is describing Miles H. Brown and his brother Marlon]‎. Many older residents will remember the Carrie Brown of the line which operated between this city and Huntington.
‎[This part is correct.]‎ For many years the Brown home was in Parkersburg, and the family removed to Mason about ten years ago. He is survived by his wife, Willie F., and two sons, M. Harold Brown, business manager of the Gallipolis Clinic and formerly principal of Gallia Academy High School, and Max of Jenkintown, Pa. Other survivors are a brother and sister, Marlin of Chicago and Alice Chapman of Hartford, W.Va.
Funeral services will be held at the Voglesong Funeral home at Mason at 2 p.m. Sunday. Burial will follow in Suncrest cemetery at Pt. Pleasant. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Saturday.

I used to take Uncle Miles ‎(Brown)‎ and Grandad ‎(Will Foglesong)‎ to baseball games in Cincinnati. Sometimes Uncle Lem ‎(Ruttencutter)‎ would go and sometimes Fred Beatty. We were all ready to go early in the morning. We'd go to an evening game the first day, stay all night, then go to an afternoon game the next day--and then home. They especially liked to go when the "Reds" played Philadelphia because Mel Clark from Mason played for Philadelphia, and he would take them to the locker room, show them around and introduce them to the players. Will Foglesong's favorite team was Pittsburgh.
One evening after a game, they were walking through Fountain Square at 11:30 at night, when Miles asked Fred Beatty, "Have you ever waded through Fountain Square?" ‎[They stayed at the Fountain Square Hotel.]‎ "No, no," Fred replied. "Well then, let's go," said Miles, and so they did.

In Memory of Miles O. Brown
Date of Birth: May 28, 1881
Date of Death: October 25, 1957
Time of Service: October 27, 1957-2:00 P.M.
Funeral: Foglesong Funeral Home
Clergyman: Rev. Richard Wright
Burial: Suncrest Memorial Park

God hath not promised
Skies always blue,
Flower-strewn pathways
All our lives through;
God hath not promised
Sun without rain,
Joy without sorrow
Peace without pain.

But God hath promised
Strength for the day
Rest for the labor
Light for the way.
Grace for the trials,
Help from above,
Unfailing sympathy
Undying love.

"Uncle Eddie moved to Wheeling, West Virgnia and Uncle Miles boarded with them while he worked there. Uncle Miles became a member of the Masonic Lodge at Flushing. Miles went to Parkersburg as a car inspector; he supervised the railroad yards."

Dad was born at Hartford. After he married Mom, they moved about with the B&O Railroad. All the time that he worked for the B&O, he had only two week's annual vacation. ‎[Imagine!!]‎ Every year they spent their vacation in Mason where they visited Katie and Will Foglesong and other relatives and friends. Dad enjoyed picking cherries from the sour cherry trees on the Foglesong property. Dad retired in 1945 and really enjoyed retirement--reading papers, listening to the radio ‎(sports)‎ and working in the garden and yard.

He spent a lot of time across the road at the Foglesong home where his sister- and brother-in-law, Katie and Will Foglesong, lived. He was fan of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team. Dad and I used to take the train from Parkersburg to Cincinnati to ball games.

Dad liked to kid a lot and laugh, to tell stories and joke. He was just a good-natured person, who was especially fond of children and young people.
Dad liked to be a home. He rarely went to meetings. He was a very strong Republican, so strong that he would almost blindly support every candidate. Mom supported him. He was a member of the Methodist church and went to church quite a bit in Mason in his later years, but at Parkersburg he rarely went. As a boy he went to Sunday school regularly. He used to play baseball.
Dad came from a large family. There were three sisters and five brothers. I think that he was especially fond of his sisters Jennie and Alice. Alice Brown Chapman lived in the old family home in Hartford. The Mathew Browns, Dad's parents, had a nice home next to the river in Hartford. Harold said that his dad's parents had a big, happy, fun-loving family.