Mary Moore Reading from the New Testament. From “The Captives of Abbs Valley,” 1854

The Strange, Horrific Odyssey Of Mary Moore Brown

A remarkable true story of courage, perseverance, chance meetings, and pure faith

Rev. Samuel Brown, his wife Mary Moore and their 11 children were familiar fixtures at Brownsburg, Virginia’s New Providence Church from 1795 to 1818. Few parishioners, however, may have known the full, mindboggling story of Mary that had…