Hale-Randolph County AlArchives Obituaries.....BRAND (colored), "Mammy Judy" June 18, 1903
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"The Roanoke Leader"

Roanoke, Randolph Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER issue of Wednesday, June 24, 1903

IN MEMORY OF "MAMMY JUDY"

There died in Greensboro last Thursday [18 June 1903] a faithful old soul, 
Julia Brand, colored, at the age of 87 years. She was known to all as "Mammy 
Judy".

For eighty-two years she had remained in the Waller family, the last twenty 
seven years being on the lost of Hon. Charles E. Waller in Greensboro.  He had 
erected for her a neat house and there she had lived in ease, free from the 
haunting cares of want and penury. For the past ten years she had been unable 
to perform any work but was cared for by Mr. Waller and family.  Judy had been 
nurse to Mr. Waller's mother in infancy, then she nursed his mother's children 
and then Mr. Waller's children were nursed by her.  Thus for three 
generations, Judy faithfully performed her duties as a servant in the family.  
In infancy she looked after the helpless tots; she romped with them in their 
childish glee; she attended the marriages, hovered over the sick bed and 
mingled her tears with those of the family when death entered the home.

Her funeral was held in the colored Methodist church and Messrs. Harris T., 
Chas. E., Robt. B and Julian Waller acted as pall bearers and all the Waller 
family attended her burial.  There is a bond of affection between those old 
time colored people and their former owners which only death can sever. 
(Greensboro Watchman)

[Transscribed by Candace Gravelle June 22, 2005]

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