Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1876-05-13
Nay 9th. Is7.
OBITUARIES.

DHD-At her residence in jackson OF
| the 10th ult., Mrs. Sarah +. Brown, wifi
/ of the Hon. Milton Brown, In the soil
! year of her age.
Mrs. Browns last illness and confine
ment to her chamber was protracted owe
a period of some three months, whici
tested her patience and fortitude, ant
proved her christian graces equal to tn,
emergency She was born in Halifax
County, va, raised under piOus infiu
ences, and educated literally in Salem
n. c., and completed her school course
at the Nashville Female Academy.
On the 21st of January, 1885, when she
was a member of DIR. Jackson's family in
Paris, Tenn, she married Judge Brown
and came at once to his home in Jackson
In month or so she prOfessed religion
and joined the Methodist church, thus
making a second bond Of union and sym
pathy with her husband.
This well assorted union of hearts and
hands was blessed eminently with har-
mOny and happiness for upwards of for
ty-One years, it was blessed with seven
children, four boys and three girls, all OF
whom were raised except VIM. Stoddart
Brown, who died about two years old.
Col. Alex. J. Brown, a patriotic soldier
of the Confederate army died about the
close OF. the late war, having gained
troops of friends and high renOwn.
Mrs. Browns watchword was duty,
which she never forgot or neglected in
all her relations to church, home and So
eiety. Meek, gentle, kind and unObtru-
sive in spirit, her circle of friends was
coextensive with the range of her unos-
tentatiOus social intercourse. Enemies
she had none, for in her modest and kind
iy intercourse, she neither felt guile or
envy in her own breast, or excited such
feelings in the breasts of others.
The poor will lament her loss, so also
win the sick for her open handed charity
and benevolent heart were ever ready to
minister to their wants and sufferings.
Her numerous friends deeply deplore
their loss, and rejoice in her great gain
in the exchange of worlds. To the be-
reaved family their coincidence and sin
oere sympathies are tendercd.
II - NHH AAE-NDs
DIED-In jackson Tennessee, May 3rd,
1876 Mrs. Thomas Beveridge ST., and
two days after May 5th) Thomas Bever-
idge Sr., her husband.
Mrs BIS. maiden name was Ann Rat
cliffe, born in York County Va, Nov.
12th 1871, she professed religion In 1897,
and Joined the Methodist Church in ISL.
Her mother was an Episcopa1ian of Iiber-
al views who opposed no obstacle to her
daughters church preference-she mar
ried Thomas Beyeridge in Williamson
County Tenn. Nov. 27th lS29-in 1880 she
and her husband settled in Jackson Tenn.
and in the same year attached themselves
to the Methodist church.
Mrs. B. never by act, deed or express
sion, brought reprOach on the church of
her choice, but on the contrary by her
zeal and consistency through long con-
tinued membership made bright record
for simple and unaffected piety, deep hu-
mility, punctuaI discharge of duty, and
general benevolence. She loved God and
loved her neighbor with fervent and sim
cere love.
Many years of bodily affection which
she bore with great fortitude deprived
her of the enjoyment of church associa-
tons, privileges and exercises, but under
these trials and privations her patience
and resignation never failed, and her de-
votions never ceased. The Bible was her
daily companion, its precious promises
eheered and solaced her heart, amid all
the tribulations and infirmities of life.
Her faith and hope and all the panoply
of Christian graees were ever bright from