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The History of Northeastern Wayne County, Indiana, pp. 144-145 provides some interesting information titled "BRITTAIN & CASE"
"Frances Lucinda Potter Brittain completed the westward movement begun by her great-grandfather Isaiah Case. She was born in New Garden Twp. May 12, 1846, the third child of Abraham and Susanna Case Potter." Isaiah and Frances Case left NJ to settle in NC where a son Nathaniel was born in 1792. "In 1811 Isaiah took land in Wayne County, and the family helped to organize the Baptist Church in 1818. Nathaniel, grandfather of Frances Potter, was ordained a deacon in 1819 and later was a preacher. Susanna Case, mother of Frances Potter, was ordained a deacon in 1819, and later was a preacher. Susanna Case, mother of Frances, was born in Wayne Co. in 1825 and married Abraham Potter, native of Monmouth Co., New Jersey, in 1841.
"In 1863 Frances married George Henry Brittain of Green Township, a widower with one small daugher, Rebecca Jane. Her mother was Elizabeth Reynolds Brittain (1836-1860), daughter of John J. and Rebecca Cook Reynolds.
George Henry Brittain, born in Wayne Co. in 1836, was the youngest child of Benjamin and Rebeccah Cornelius Brittain. When Henry left Wayne Co. in 1869, his family included two small sons, Charles C. and Isaiah, daughter Rebecca, his wife and his father. A daughter Mary was born in Wisconsin." In 1874 they all migrated to Hardin Co., IA. "Henry died there in 1884 and France in later life was to marry Wm. Burgess. Her mother, Susana joined her family in her last years to live in Iowa Falls, Ia." Frances made several trips to CA to visit her grandson, Clarence, who moved to San Diego in 1927. And so, the great migration begun by Isaiah Case was concluded. Frances Brittain Burgess died in 1930 and is buried with the family in Union Cemetery, Iowa Falls, Iowa."
Source:"Platt & Horner Descendants" by Sally Ann (Platt)Henry Ivy, The HF Group, North Manchester, Indiana.
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