I7 Mary Catherine Horine was born ca. 1843 in Middletown Valley, Frederick County, Maryland, and died in Gadsden, TN. She married David Brandenburg, son of David Brandenburg and Catharine Routzahn. David was involved in founding of Methodist Church in Crockett County, TN (Church moved from Mason Grove to Gadsen, TN). Six children.

Sign 4D 30 in Tennessee erected by the Tennessee Historical Commission states the following:

"-FIRST STRAWBERRIES- Coming to this region from his native Maryland in 1867, David M. Brandenburg established here the first large-scale strawberry-growing operation in Tennessee. The Industry has now become an important factor in the produce economy of the mid-South"

"D. M. Brandenburg, horticulturist and farmer, is a son of David and Catherine (Routzahn) Brandenburg, and was born in Maryland in 1840, and is one of 12 children, eight of whom are still living. The parents were born in Maryland about 1796, and died in 1882 and 1884, father and mother, respectively. Our subject was educated in Middletown, Md., and April 9, 1864, joined Company L., First Maryland Cavalry, and participated in the battles of Cedar Creek, Harper's Ferry, New Creek, and several sharp skirmishes, and served until the final surrender. He returned home in July, 1865, and resumed farming. In August, 1867, he married Catherine, daughter of John and Catherine Horine, of Maryland. They became the parents of six children: Minnnie O., Bell, Deal, Bessie and Sadie (twins) and an infant. Soon after the marriage, Mr. Brandenburg removed to Illinois, and then came to Gadsden and engaged in horticulture, the same having become a great enterprise in Crockett County. He is the owner of 252 acres of land, 160 acres comprising the home farm. He is a staunch Republican in politics, and his fist presidential vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln. He belongs to the I.O.O.F. and the Methodist Episcopal Church South."

J1 Minnie O Brandenburg, born 1867 in Gadsden, TN; died 1940 in Memphis, TN. Never married.

J2 George Deal Brandenburg, born February 03, 1874 in Gadsden, TN; died July 18, 1953 in Memphis, TN.

J3 Belle Brandenburg, born 1876 in Gadsden, TN; died 1894 in Gadsden, TN.

J4 Bessie Brandenburg, born 1878 in Little Rock, Arkansas.

J5 Sarah Brandenburg, born 1878 in Gadsden, TN; died 1941 in Gadsden, TN.

J6 Beulah Catherine Brandenburg, born 1885 in Gadsden, TN; died 1990 in Gadsden, TN.