Clay County GaArchives Obituaries.....BROWN, TOM November 1922 ************************************************ 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 16, 2011, 8:47 pm SOUTHWEST REPORTER, NOV 22 1922 JUDGE TOM BROWN'S REMAINS BURIED HERE THE REMAINS OF JUDGE TM BROWN WHO PASSED AWAY ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT OF LAST WEEK, WERE INTERRED IN NEW PARK CEMETERY FRIDAY MORNING AT TEN OCLOCK. AT AGE 14 YEARS 10 MONTHS HE ENLISTED AS A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER SERVING IN CO D NINTH GA REGT, ANDERSON'S BRIGADE, LONGSTREET'S CORP, WHICH WAS ACTIVE IN THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA UNTIL GENERAL LEE'S SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE. MR BROWN WAS IN MANY BATTLES AND WAS WOUNDED TWO OR THREE TIMES--ONCE IN THE HEAD AT THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS AND AGAIN IN THE ANKLE AT WHAT WAS CALLED DEVIL'S DEN ON THE GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD. MR. BROWN WAS ACTIVE IN BUSINESS IN FT. GAINES FOR MORE THAN FORTY YEARS HAVING OPENED A GROCERY STORE IN 1872 ON THE SITE THAT STILL BEARS HIS NAME (THE MOBLEY STORE). HE WAS HIGHLY ESTEEMED FOR HIS RIGIT INTEGRITY AND FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY HE WAS A LOYAL AND CONSISTENT MEMBER OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH TO WHICH HE WAS INTENSELY DEVOTED. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/clay/obits/b/brown10413gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb