The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-02-26
The Widow OF ParSOn Brown.
low Dies Al a Very
Advanced AUeo

Advanced Age
FROM the Knoxville Journal and Tribune,
we clip portion Of an article devoted to
the life and death of Mrs Eliza O'Brian
Brownlow:
STAYED AT OLD HOME.
After the death of her husband Mrs Brown
low lived in the old home to which she came
as a young woman more than fifty years ago.
She always took lively interest in public affairs,
and kept abreast Of the times in all particulars.
Guests were always cordially welcomed to the
home, and in Mrs. Brownow found one of the
best informed persons Of the day. She also had
a rare fund Of "reminiscences of the bygone days,
which she related with rare skill. Recollections
of her girlhood days and her married life with
PEARSON BrOWnlow recalled to the great
delight Of those who visited her. During her
lifetime Mrs Brownlow was visited by many dis
tinguished men. Included in this number
six Presidents Of the United States Presidents
Johnson, Grant Hayes, Mckinley, Roosevelt and
Taft. General Sam Houston was also a guest at
the RroWnlow home and before the days of the
Civil War, among the visitors United States
Senators B. H Hill of Georgia. and John Bell of
Tennessee, Andrew j. Donaldson and William G.
Preston Of South Carolina. Many other persons
Of distinction also called to pay their respects to
Mrs BroWnloW.
Knew Andrew jackson.
Mrs. Brownlow used to relate with interest
story concerning Andrew Jackson. While
schoolgirl at Kingsport General Jackson passed
through that town Mrs Brownlow and num-
Der Of her classmates called on the general and
she presented him with a beautiful bouquet of
roses cut from the bushes in her fathers yard.
Mrs Brownlow and the other girls also expressed
to General Jackson their appreciation of his serv
ces to the country. Since that time, Mrs Brown
low often spoke of the graciOusness with which
General Jackson made response to the young
ladies' and declared that of the many dstin gushed
men whom she had known, General Jackson was
the most cOurtly. Mrs. Brownlow often expressed
the opinion that Tennessee should send life size
statues in finest marble of the "hero of New
Orleans" and ''the hero of Kings Mountain" to
statuary hall in the capitol at Washington. II
believe" she said, that John Sewer and Andrew
Jackson have shed more renOWn the nation and
on Tennessee and have greater claims to the graft
tude of Tennessee than have any other two men
in the States history
Among the men of prominence who have called
upon Mrs Brownlow at her home here were lead
ers Of the armies in the Civil War Of this num-
Der Generals Sherman and Sheridan.
Although her husband was ardent advocate of
the Union in the trying times of the war, Mrs.
BrOwnloW also had loved ones enrolled under
the Stars and Bars, and in after years no distinc-
ton was made as to the for which the vete-
rams who called upon her had fought, and all
were welcome. Many distinguished churches,
especially those of the Methodist church in which
her husband was pioneer preacher, called upon
Mrs. BrOwnlow. In the history of ''Holston Metho-
dism' by Rev r. N. Price, ID. D., of the Southern
Methodist church. the author writes thus concern
ing Mrs. BrOwnlow:
"She has been woman of superior physical
and mental endowments. She was to Governor
BroWnlCw the best of wives, faithful to him in all
his trouble, we'll poised, symmetrical, prudent,
without fault" ~a+
Up until the very last, Mrs Brownlow was in
possession of her faculties Until only few days
before her death she able to sit up and to
wait upon herself But few days ago her
strength gradually failed, and the end was not
unexpected.