Billy Brown Cabin
The Brown family has been in Rappahannock County for centuries.
This is the home of Billy Brown, currently occupied by Bob and Kathryn
Treanor. Billy originally lived by the river in a cabin on the current
Ziemer property, where he had ten children by his first wife and
six by his second. The bottom land, by the river, was know as Billy
Brown's Bottom. One of Billy's sons, Mossie Brown (after whom Mossie
Lane is named), lived in that cabin until he moved to Hinson's Ford
Road, where he lived with his wife Estelle, in a house currently
owned by Dave and Kathy Shiff
The river cabin burned in the 1950's; the chimney fell down a few
days after Mossie died in the late 1970's. The Brown family cemetery
is nearby, on property currently owned by Roger Klinger.
The remains of a home belonging to John Jeffries, a freed slave,
are located in a field just to the west of the Billy Brown home,
on property now owned by Doug Seal. That building stood as recently
as the 1980s; its remains are clearly visible.
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