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Note: 005: Source: The Daily Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., 10 Jun 1879 Athens, Ga, June 9. Mrs. H. L. Brittain, who has been very ill for sometime past, died on Saturday morning at 4 o'clock, in her sixty-seventh year. The funeral services conducted at the Baptist church on Sunday morning were attended by a very large concourse of friends. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mary Overby, Editor and Abstracter, Obituaries Published by The Christian Index, 1822-1879, Georgia Baptist Historical Society, Mercer University, Macon, Ga., 1975, p. 27.. Obituary, BRITTAIN - Mrs. Julia A. Brittain, wife of Deacon Henry L. Brittain, died at their residence in this city, on Saturday the 7th day of June, at 4 o'clock A. M. The deceased was sixty-five years of age, during a little more that half of which she had lived a devoted and exemplary follower of Christ, having been baptized at the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church (then located some four miles from this city) in the year 1845. She was married in 1842 to the husband with whom she lived in great affection until her death. It was three years afterwards that she made an open avowal of the little hope she had cherrished (sic) for some time before, and upon which she ever after maintained a consistent and growing christian (sic) usefulness. Her piety was of the practical rather than of the merely theoretical or devotional type. To do good by relieving the necessities of the suffering, and helping the weak and needy was of more value in her esteem than the cherishing of mere sentiment. A christian (sic) friend who knew her for years and under varying circumstances, speaking of her since her death, mentioned truthfulness--stern and invariable--as among the most prominent traits of her excellent character--that in all those years of acquaintance she had never known her to utter a falsehood or even the semblance of one--no, not even in jest. The life of sister Brittain was both beautiful and efficient in all her relations. As a member of the community in which she lived; as a member of the church to which she was attached; as a mother, and as a wife, she did her part in life well and will be greatly missed by those who knew and loved her. Her death will be sorely felt by them all; but by none like the husband whom whe loved so devotedly in health, and whom she nursed so tenderly in the affliction by which he has been confined to the house for many months past. But we rejoice to feel assured that our loss is her gain, and that she is only gone before to welcome those who shall come after. C. L. Campbell ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Census Listings: 1850 Federal Census Clarke Co., Ga., (Puryear's Dist, HN 28, FN 28, image 5) with husband and children. 1860 Federal Census Clarke Co., Ga. (Athens, 216th Dist., p. 126; HN 879, FN 890), living with husband and children. 1870 Federal Census Clarke Co., Ga. (Athens, 2 WD, p. 55; HN 344, FN 351), living with husband, two oldest children, numerous boarders and servants. 1880 Federal Census Clarke Co., Ga. (Lumpkin St.; ED 13, p. 216; HN 235, FN 236), living with husband, children, servants. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Julia buried Oconee Hill Cem. and also Henry Lansford Brittain, her husband, both have source:------------------------ Charlotte Thomas Marshall, Ed., Oconee Hill Cemetery: Inscriptions for that Part of Cemetery West of Oconee River and Index to Record of Interment., Athens Historical Society, Athens, Ga., 1971. Thomas Brittain reported that Julia Amanda Wright was daughter of Robert Wright, Jr. "His father [Robert, Sr.] was born in Orange Co., Va., [in 1732] and had served in the Virginia Line. Robert Sr. died in Greene Co. in 1831 [he was married to Mary Perrin Fitzpatrick, dau of Joseph Fitzpatrick and Mary Perrin Woodson]. Robert Jr. married Margaret Bledsoe in Greene Co. in 1808. Jr. died between 1860 and 1870, probably in Newton Co. where he lived for about 20 years. In the 1860 census he was living there with his daughter Melvina. In 1970 Melvina was living in Clarke Co. with her sister Julia A. Brittain. The connection to Orange Co. surfaced in an entry in an online DAR database for Susan M. Brittain Martin (DAR ID number 42577). Susan was Julia's daughter and William F. Brittain's sister."
Note: For Julia Amanda Wright from genealogy file of Thomas M. Brittain, Dec 2
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