Clay County GaArchives Obituaries.....BROWN, ALECK December 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: REBECCA STEWART rstewart@enervest.net December 14, 2011, 8:08 pm FORT GAINES HERALD, JAN 5 1894 ALECK BROWN, A WORTHY COLORED YOUNG COLORED MAN DIED LAST MONDAY. ALEC WAS BORN IN FT GAINES, LIVED HERE ALL HIS LIFE AND WAS RESPECTED AND LIKED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM AMONG WHITE AND COLORED. FOR SEVERAL YEARS HE HAD BEEN IN THE EMPLOY OF MESSRS MIMMS AND LEWIS AND FULLY JUSTIFIED THE CONFIDENCE THEY REPOSED IN HIM AS HE MADE THEIR INTERESTS HIS OWN IN EVERY RESPECT. FOR SOME TIME PAST HE HAS HAD A LUNG TROUBLE AKIN TO CONSUMPTION WHICH RECENTLY GREW WORSE , SOON PROSTRATED HIM AND CARRIED HIM OFF. ALECK WAS A GOOD BOY; HE DESERVED AND WON THE RESPECT OF ALL WHO KNEW HIM AND WAS AN EXAMPLE TO MANY OF HIS RACE, WHO MIGHT, IF THEY WOULD DO LIKEWISE. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/clay/obits/b/brown10381gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb