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.

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