Bartow County  Georgia Bio   James Madison Brownlow and Sarah Elizabeth Phillips

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James Madison Brownlow and Sarah Elizabeth Phillips

James Madison (Bud) Brownlow , son of James A. H.
Brownlow and Jane Anne Austin, was born June 1, 1852
in Forsyth Co., Georgia. In about 1855 he moved with
his family to Van Wert in Polk Co., Georgia. After
his father returned home from war they moved to
Bartow Co., Georgia. On May 1, 1879 he married Sarah
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Phillips, daughter of James
Phillips and Rhoda Martha Collins. She was born Nov.
13, 1861 in Bartow Co., Ga. The story is told that
she was born while her father was off fighting for
the Confederacy when she was born. One day while her
and her mother were in town a man came walking up the
tracks. Her mother looked up and said "Well Lord,
yonder comes Jim Phillips". Soon after that her
father died of a sickness he had contracted in the
army. She only got to spend a few days with her
father. After his death Sarah ,along with her mother
and sister, had to survive on their own. They did but
it was not with out struggle. The story is told that
during reconstruction they would take pine boughs and
attach them to the side of their house for shade in
the summer. They also worked keeping other peoples
houses.

James and Sarah started out married life with a one
eye stove, a table and crates for chairs. They would
tie sacks in the corners of their one roomed house
for beds. James and Sarah had the following children:
George Lester Brownlow b. March 14, 1880, Annie Lee
Brownlow b. September 12, 1881, married Hicks Carter,
December 28, 1907, Rhoda Judson Brownlow b. August
27, 1883, Willie Estelle Brownlow b. April 26, 1886,
married Bartow Carter, February 25, 1917, Virgil
Ephriam Brownlow b. March 1, 1888, and Oliver Johnson
Brownlow b. July 8, 1895, married Ethel Briton,
February 10, 1924.

In about 1900 James moved back to Van Wert. Then in
abt 1910 they bought an old white house in Aragon.
James and his family grew what they needed to eat and
any thing they couldn’t grow they bought. During
the World Wars train loads of soldiers would stop in
Aragon and the family would take flowers to them.
Many of those men went over to Europe and never
returned. Every year for Sarah’s birthday her
children would throw her a big party which would be
attended by sometimes over two hundred people. It was
not un common for Governor Talmadge to stop by as
well. They would take the furniture out of the house
and line the walls with tables of every kind of food
imaginable. They would hire local women to do some of
the cooking. The main food was a huge pot of stew
that was cooked over a fire. There was always plenty
at the Brownlow house. James was a member of Prospect
Baptist church. He died on Jan 3, 1931 and is buried
in the church cemetery next to Sarah who passed away
on April 15, 1951.


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