1/21/1911 - The Atlanta Constitution - Page 5
EDGEFIELD BROWN LIVED HERE BACK IN THE THIRTIES
Edgefield Brown, the venerable Atlantian who passed away Saturday night at the home of his daughter on Lakewood Heights, was perhaps the oldest pioneer in this section of Georgia.
So far as all records go, he was the sole survivor of those early patriots who voted at Decatur, Ga., in 1882. Had he lived until this coming April, Mr. Brown would have been ninety-one years of age and this long life, with the exception of a comparatively few years, was spent in and about Atlanta.
He was a native of South Carolina, born in that state in the year 1811. He resided there with his parents until he reached the age of eleven years in 1822, when he became a resident of Georgia. The family moved to Decatur when that town was a mere straggling village and when Marthasville, now Atlanta, had not even developed into a hamlet. It was there that young Brown attained his majority and cast his first vote. The courthouse was the polling place and in those long past years, the DeKalb temple of justice was simply an unpretentious log structure.
While he was still a young man, the question of settling a site six miles from Decatur was agitated and Brown left thata town and became one of the number that composed the settlement, which was given the name of Marthasville and which later became Atlanta.
From that time on until he breathed his last, Mr. Brown's interest were identified with Atlanta and he watched the growth of the city from its birth.
During his long residence here he had been enabled to number his friends and aquaintances by the score and surviving relatives have the sympathy of the community in their bereavement. Mr. Brown had been in feeble health for the past year, and he was an invalid from his boyhood. He had nine living children and six dead.
The funeral services will be conducted today at 12 o'clock at the residence of his daughter and the remains will be interred in the old family burying ground near South river.
(The Brown Cemetery is located on Hutchins Road between Jonesboro Road and Forrest Road. Land Lot #30, 14th District, Fulton County, South Bend District.
These names were recorded on 2/28/1931:
Martha R. Britt - 2/29/1856 - 5/21/1914
Edgefield Brown - see above
Hosea P. Brown - 3/21/1869-3/19/1920
Joel Brown - died April 1865
Leah Elizabeth Messick/Brown - 10/17/18149 - 11/9/1893
Meredith Brown abt. 1839- died 6/6/1911 - age 72 years
Peter Brown - 10/7/1778 - 1/9/1840
Sarah Scales/Brown - 5/12/1776 - 9/30-1839 - wife of Peter
Sarah Crawford - 9/8/1833 - 10/19/1913
A. J. "Uncle Jack" Hutchens - 3/7/1819 - 3/14/1903
Mary "Aunt Polly" Brown/Hutchens - 7/29/1914 - 8/21/1904
wife of A. J.
Several others graves in this cemetery - no inscribed markers.
EDGEFIELD BROWN LIVED HERE BACK IN THE THIRTIES
Edgefield Brown, the venerable Atlantian who passed away Saturday night at the home of his daughter on Lakewood Heights, was perhaps the oldest pioneer in this section of Georgia.
So far as all records go, he was the sole survivor of those early patriots who voted at Decatur, Ga., in 1882. Had he lived until this coming April, Mr. Brown would have been ninety-one years of age and this long life, with the exception of a comparatively few years, was spent in and about Atlanta.
He was a native of South Carolina, born in that state in the year 1811. He resided there with his parents until he reached the age of eleven years in 1822, when he became a resident of Georgia. The family moved to Decatur when that town was a mere straggling village and when Marthasville, now Atlanta, had not even developed into a hamlet. It was there that young Brown attained his majority and cast his first vote. The courthouse was the polling place and in those long past years, the DeKalb temple of justice was simply an unpretentious log structure.
While he was still a young man, the question of settling a site six miles from Decatur was agitated and Brown left thata town and became one of the number that composed the settlement, which was given the name of Marthasville and which later became Atlanta.
From that time on until he breathed his last, Mr. Brown's interest were identified with Atlanta and he watched the growth of the city from its birth.
During his long residence here he had been enabled to number his friends and aquaintances by the score and surviving relatives have the sympathy of the community in their bereavement. Mr. Brown had been in feeble health for the past year, and he was an invalid from his boyhood. He had nine living children and six dead.
The funeral services will be conducted today at 12 o'clock at the residence of his daughter and the remains will be interred in the old family burying ground near South river.
(The Brown Cemetery is located on Hutchins Road between Jonesboro Road and Forrest Road. Land Lot #30, 14th District, Fulton County, South Bend District.
These names were recorded on 2/28/1931:
Martha R. Britt - 2/29/1856 - 5/21/1914
Edgefield Brown - see above
Hosea P. Brown - 3/21/1869-3/19/1920
Joel Brown - died April 1865
Leah Elizabeth Messick/Brown - 10/17/18149 - 11/9/1893
Meredith Brown abt. 1839- died 6/6/1911 - age 72 years
Peter Brown - 10/7/1778 - 1/9/1840
Sarah Scales/Brown - 5/12/1776 - 9/30-1839 - wife of Peter
Sarah Crawford - 9/8/1833 - 10/19/1913
A. J. "Uncle Jack" Hutchens - 3/7/1819 - 3/14/1903
Mary "Aunt Polly" Brown/Hutchens - 7/29/1914 - 8/21/1904
wife of A. J.
Several others graves in this cemetery - no inscribed markers.
1/21/1911 - The Atlanta Constitution - Page 5
EDGEFIELD BROWN LIVED HERE BACK IN THE THIRTIES
Edgefield Brown, the venerable Atlantian who passed away Saturday night at the home of his daughter on Lakewood Heights, was perhaps the oldest pioneer in this section of Georgia.
So far as all records go, he was the sole survivor of those early patriots who voted at Decatur, Ga., in 1882. Had he lived until this coming April, Mr. Brown would have been ninety-one years of age and this long life, with the exception of a comparatively few years, was spent in and about Atlanta.
He was a native of South Carolina, born in that state in the year 1811. He resided there with his parents until he reached the age of eleven years in 1822, when he became a resident of Georgia. The family moved to Decatur when that town was a mere straggling village and when Marthasville, now Atlanta, had not even developed into a hamlet. It was there that young Brown attained his majority and cast his first vote. The courthouse was the polling place and in those long past years, the DeKalb temple of justice was simply an unpretentious log structure.
While he was still a young man, the question of settling a site six miles from Decatur was agitated and Brown left thata town and became one of the number that composed the settlement, which was given the name of Marthasville and which later became Atlanta.
From that time on until he breathed his last, Mr. Brown's interest were identified with Atlanta and he watched the growth of the city from its birth.
During his long residence here he had been enabled to number his friends and aquaintances by the score and surviving relatives have the sympathy of the community in their bereavement. Mr. Brown had been in feeble health for the past year, and he was an invalid from his boyhood. He had nine living children and six dead.
The funeral services will be conducted today at 12 o'clock at the residence of his daughter and the remains will be interred in the old family burying ground near South river.
(The Brown Cemetery is located on Hutchins Road between Jonesboro Road and Forrest Road. Land Lot #30, 14th District, Fulton County, South Bend District.
These names were recorded on 2/28/1931:
Martha R. Britt - 2/29/1856 - 5/21/1914
Edgefield Brown - see above
Hosea P. Brown - 3/21/1869-3/19/1920
Joel Brown - died April 1865
Leah Elizabeth Messick/Brown - 10/17/18149 - 11/9/1893
Meredith Brown abt. 1839- died 6/6/1911 - age 72 years
Peter Brown - 10/7/1778 - 1/9/1840
Sarah Scales/Brown - 5/12/1776 - 9/30-1839 - wife of Peter
Sarah Crawford - 9/8/1833 - 10/19/1913
A. J. "Uncle Jack" Hutchens - 3/7/1819 - 3/14/1903
Mary "Aunt Polly" Brown/Hutchens - 7/29/1914 - 8/21/1904
wife of A. J.
Several others graves in this cemetery - no inscribed markers.
EDGEFIELD BROWN LIVED HERE BACK IN THE THIRTIES
Edgefield Brown, the venerable Atlantian who passed away Saturday night at the home of his daughter on Lakewood Heights, was perhaps the oldest pioneer in this section of Georgia.
So far as all records go, he was the sole survivor of those early patriots who voted at Decatur, Ga., in 1882. Had he lived until this coming April, Mr. Brown would have been ninety-one years of age and this long life, with the exception of a comparatively few years, was spent in and about Atlanta.
He was a native of South Carolina, born in that state in the year 1811. He resided there with his parents until he reached the age of eleven years in 1822, when he became a resident of Georgia. The family moved to Decatur when that town was a mere straggling village and when Marthasville, now Atlanta, had not even developed into a hamlet. It was there that young Brown attained his majority and cast his first vote. The courthouse was the polling place and in those long past years, the DeKalb temple of justice was simply an unpretentious log structure.
While he was still a young man, the question of settling a site six miles from Decatur was agitated and Brown left thata town and became one of the number that composed the settlement, which was given the name of Marthasville and which later became Atlanta.
From that time on until he breathed his last, Mr. Brown's interest were identified with Atlanta and he watched the growth of the city from its birth.
During his long residence here he had been enabled to number his friends and aquaintances by the score and surviving relatives have the sympathy of the community in their bereavement. Mr. Brown had been in feeble health for the past year, and he was an invalid from his boyhood. He had nine living children and six dead.
The funeral services will be conducted today at 12 o'clock at the residence of his daughter and the remains will be interred in the old family burying ground near South river.
(The Brown Cemetery is located on Hutchins Road between Jonesboro Road and Forrest Road. Land Lot #30, 14th District, Fulton County, South Bend District.
These names were recorded on 2/28/1931:
Martha R. Britt - 2/29/1856 - 5/21/1914
Edgefield Brown - see above
Hosea P. Brown - 3/21/1869-3/19/1920
Joel Brown - died April 1865
Leah Elizabeth Messick/Brown - 10/17/18149 - 11/9/1893
Meredith Brown abt. 1839- died 6/6/1911 - age 72 years
Peter Brown - 10/7/1778 - 1/9/1840
Sarah Scales/Brown - 5/12/1776 - 9/30-1839 - wife of Peter
Sarah Crawford - 9/8/1833 - 10/19/1913
A. J. "Uncle Jack" Hutchens - 3/7/1819 - 3/14/1903
Mary "Aunt Polly" Brown/Hutchens - 7/29/1914 - 8/21/1904
wife of A. J.
Several others graves in this cemetery - no inscribed markers.
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