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1. MARY EDWARDS 6 LEWIS (HANNAH S.5 TEMPLE, RACHEL 4 BROOMALL, DANIEL 3, JOHN 2, JOHN 1) was born March 18, 1830. She married GEORGE FAWKES BRINTON, probably about 1851 since she was about 21 and a child is born in 1853. Mary survived her husband and was still alive in July 1911 when her daughter Helen's obituary was published. According to this obituary, Mary and George had at least three daughters who survived to adulthood and married. Their exact birth order is not known, but Helen was probably the first since she was born in 1853. They are listed below in the order they are mentioned in Helen's obituary. GEORGE FAWKES BRINTON was probably born in the 1820s and died in West Chester, Chester Co., Pa. about 1909. His daughter Helen's obituary in 1911 says that he had died there about two years earlier.

Children of Mary Edward Lewis and George Fawkes Brinton are:

2. i.. HELEN EDWARDS BRINTON, born on June 29, 1853, Philadelphia and died July 5, 1911 at "Greystone Hall" in West Goshen Twp., Chester Co., Pa. She married PHILIP M. SHARPLES in 1884. After her death in 1911, he remarried in 1915 to Jean Watt Davy.
ii. ELIZABETH BRINTON, probably born about 1855 if she is actually the second child. She married W.J. ADAMS. They were living in West Chester in 1911 when Helen died.
iii. ADELAIDE BRINTON, probably born about 1857 if she is actually the third child. She married I. ROBERTS COMFORT. They were living in West Chester in 1911 when Helen died.

2. HELEN EDWARDS 7 BRINTON (MARY EDWARDS 6 LEWIS, HANNAH S.5 TEMPLE, RACHEL 4 BROOMALL, DANIEL 3, JOHN 2, JOHN 1) was born June 29, 1853 in Philadelphia, Pa. and died July 5, 1911 at "Greystone Hall" in West Goshen Twp., Chester Co., Pa. The cause of death was tuberculosis. Helen is said to have come down with pneumonia about twenty years earlier and never recovered good health. She married on November 27, 1884 in Philadelphia to PHILIP M. SHARPLES, son of SAMUEL EMLEN SHARPLES and MARTHA SERRIL ASH. They had four children, one dying young while the others survived and married.

Helen was a Quaker and active in charity and philanthropy in West Chester, especially in support of the Chester County Hospital. She was on the board of managers of the hospital and president of the Chester County Auxiliary and of its West Chester branch which supported the hospital. Helen is also said acted on her own with private acts of charity such as paying rent and buying food for needy families

Philip M. Sharples was born on August 10, 1857 in West Chester, Chester Co., Pa. and died on April 13, 1944 in South Pasedena, California. He attended the State Normal School in West Chester before entering business. Philip was a manufacturer beginning with a small machine shop in West Chester. He built the first cream separator manufactured in the U.S. and soon after organized the Sharples Separator Company, building a factory in West Chester. His company was sucessful, with a small hand separator which farmers found useful selling especially well. The company grew with offices in several places including Chicago and San Francisco, even establishing another head office in Australia with branches in that country. The home plant in West Chester employed up to 1,000 men. He was also president of the Farmers and Mechanics Trust Company in West Chester.

He and his family lived in West Chester until 1907 when he purchased 800 acres in West Goshen Twp. northeast of West Chester and built a mansion called "Greystone Hall". After his wife's death in 1911, Philip remarried on November 17, 1915 in Wayne, Pa. to JEAN WATT DAVY, daughter of THOMAS HENRY MADDOX DAVY and GRACE MARTIN WATT. Jean was born on June 22, 1889 in Baltimore, Md.

Children of Helen Edwards Brinton and Philip M. Sharples are:

3. i. HELEN BRINTON SHARPLES, b. Nov. 22, 1885, West Chester, Chester Co., Pa.; d. July 15, 1922. She married in 1914 to SAMUEL BUTLER.
ii. EMLEN ALBERT SHARPLES, born on January 14, 1887, probably in West Chester, and died on May 4, 1889 in Summerville, S.C. He was only two years old.
iii. 4. PHILIP TRIEST SHARPLES, born on August 12, 1889, West Chester. He married EDITH WILHELMINA WALZ in 1917. They were living in Haverford, Pa. in 1965. They had four children, one dying young.
iv. 5. LAURENCE PRICE SHARPLES, born on October 6, 1891, West Chester. He married three times, (1) 1923, DOROTHY WALLACE SPROUL, (2) 1934, ROSE VINCENT LYON, and (3) 1964, ADRIENNE (ADAM) KIRBY.

Children of Philip M. Sharples and Jean Davy are: [these are not BROOMALL descendants]
i. THOMAS DAVY SHARPLES
ii. MARY CATHERINE SHARPLES
iii. JEAN MARTHA SHARPLES.