Most participants in the Browning/Dale Reunions are direct descendants of early settlers of Otero County, New Mexico -- Mr. and Mrs. JAB and their children, Pleasant Galloway Snow and his three girls or James Lundy Dale and his six children.

Mr. and Mrs. JAB (Joseph Alansing Browning and his wife Jeanetta Angeline McCarty) were married at Fort Davis, Texas in 1865. They had ten children -- Didemia, Sarah Adelia “Della,” Richard, Walter Claxton “Bob,” James Napoleon “Jack,” Lillian Georgia, Edwin L. “Todd,” George Alansing, Albert “Bert,” and Jamettie “Mettie” Belle (who married Jim Lafferty). They arrived in Otero County in 1883, driving a herd of cattle from east Texas. Mr. JAB built a log cabin in Cox Canyon, splitting the logs himself.  It is said that he was the first man to drive a wagon up Cox Canyon.

Pleasant Galloway Snow was born in 1839 in Barren County, Kentucky. In 1872, P.G. Snow married Mary Ann Hampton.  They had three children that lived to adulthood, Cora Belle, Sophronia Louise and Mary Ollie. Mary Ann died of consumption at the age of 25, leaving three young daughters.  P.G. Snow moved with his daughters in the early 1880s to the Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico.  He is buried in the cemetery in Weed, New Mexico.

The Dale Family arrived slightly later to New Mexico, arriving in Alamogordo in 1913 from Murray, Kentucky. James Lundy Dale brought with his ailing wife, Hattie Haley, and six children, Eugene Meloan, Kathrene, Stella, Nell, Ruby, and Albert. Hattie died of tuberculosis soon thereafter but the family remained in New Mexico. Eugene married Anna Browning, daughter of Sophronia Snow and granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. JAB and Pleasant Galloway Snow.