Honoring Our Ancestors

This blog is dedicated to the Brewer Family of North Carolina. These pages present our recent family gatherings and more distant family history.
We have an ongoing effort to capture the Brewer genealogy to best honor our ancestors. We've identified our ancestors who moved from Mecklenburg County, Virginia to Orange and Chatham Counties, NC as early as 1750. In the 1800s, we saw a migration to Alexander and Iredell Counties in NC, Tennessee, and Kentucky. By the 20th century our family made their homes all over the nation.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Astronaut Charles Eldon Brady, Jr. (1951-2006)

Charles Eldon Brady Jr., a native of Pinehurst, NC, was the second great grandson of Terrell Brewer.  He is the only astronaut we've identified in our family.  He had a life of substantial accomplishments serving as a US Navy Captain and flight surgeon.  Charles joined NASA in 1992 and flew on-board the Space Shuttle Columbia during its 16-day mission in 1996.




Sunday, May 13, 2018

Lessie Lucille Brewer Wagstaff (1924-2018)

We lost our one of our longest surviving Brewer descendants, Lessie Lucille Brewer Wagstaff, on March 28, 2018.  Lucille was the last surviving child of Harron Bidwell Brewer.  She was married to Cleveland George Wagstaff, Jr.




Saturday, May 12, 2018

Margaret Louise Brewer Smithey (1944-2018)

Margaret Louise Brewer Smithey died on March 24, 2018.  She was the daughter of Dewey Samuel Brewer and the wife of Thomas Lee Smithey.  Margaret played a key part in encouraging the Brewer family to gather at reunions.  She provided information for originally establishing our family tree, now numbering about 8,000  descendants.


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