Welcome to the Jonathan Browning Organization.

Jonathan Browning was born October 22, 1805 on the family farm located on the Brushy Fork of Bledsoe Creek in Sumner County, Tennessee.

He repaired is first gun at age 14. At age 19 he because a gunsmith apprentice in Nashville, TN. He married Elizabeth Stalcup in 1823, 12 years later in 1835 he moved his family to Illinois. During the year of 1846 he left Illinois with Mormon pioneers. He stayed in Council Bluff, Iowa area until 1852; he migrated to Utah that year. Two years after arriving in Utah, he married Sarah Ann Emmett. Then in 1859 he married Elizabeth Caroline Clark. He past away in Ogden, Utah at the age of 73 in 1879.

Jonathan is the father of John M Browning - the great gun inventor - and thus the Browning name is well known throughout Utah, America, and the world.

Jonathan had twenty-two children and two step-children. We have identified about 5,000 decendants.

"We encourage everyone to contribute their Browning information(pictures, histories, genealogy) to the site to be used for further research of the family." 

Jonathan Browning Family Association
PO Box 150325
Ogden, UT 84415

Jonathan Browning A Man of Honorcd


A Family History CD-ROM Researched and Compiled by Betseylee Browning (Mrs. Deven) Years of Genealogy Research Jonathan Browning Personal History over 1000 photographs including pictures of Browning Arms and John M. Browning Browning

$29.00 plus $3.50 shipping and handling

4301 Daisy Drive,
Mountain Green, UT 84050
801-876-2524 - betseyleeb@yahoo.com

Betseylee's latest project is a CD of James Green Browning (brother of Jonathan Browning) to be released May 2008.  If you have any genealogy, pictures or histories you would like to contribute to this project please contact her.

 

Jonathan Browning Genealogy

We have uploaded a 290 page PDF file of identified descendants of Jonathan Browning. It currently has 4,676 listed descendants.

Click Here

 

 

News:

The House of David Elias Browning was moved Tuesday, February 20, 2007, please view the Special Tributes page for full details. Click here for the full newpaper artical in *.wps form.

The family dedication will be July 24, 2007 at the fort.  This is the birthday of Charilla Abbott. She was born July 4, 1829

We will shortly be sending out the 1st Browning Bulletin. If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter, please send your name, address, email address, and how you are related to the Browning family to Betseylee Browning at betseylee@mstar.net or Jonathan Browning Family Association, PO Box 150325, Ogden, UT 84415

One of the goals we have accomplished as an organization was a 200th Birthday Celebration for Jonathan Browning held Oct 21-23, 2005 at Union Station in Ogden, UT.  We viewed the Celebration as a great success and many family members were able to meet each other.