Marion County GaArchives Obituaries.....Brasington, Mrs. H.H. April 7 1901
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The Marion County Patriot, April 12, 1901
The Marion County Patriot, No. 15
April 12, 1901
Page Three

We have just received a lengthy memorial on the death of Mrs. H.H. Brasington, 
who died at the home of her son-in-law, Mr. W.B. Bray, last Sunday, which 
arrived too late for this issue.

The Marion County Patriot, No. 16
April 19, 1901
Page Three

In Memory of Mrs. H.H. Brasington

On the afternoon of April the 7th, at the home of her son-in-law, Mr. W.B. 
Bray, the soul of Mrs. H.H. Brasington broke the bonds of mortality and passed 
into the spirited world, after tabernacling in the flesh for about fifty-six 
years.

For many months she had suffered (at times intensely) with an acute lung 
disease and she realized that the time of her departure was at hand.  She 
expressed to her friends her willingness to go saying that the only thing she 
had to live for was a motherless little granddaughter.

As one of her neighbors remarked while returning from the funeral, there was 
much good in her, and you knew hardly anybody that didn’t like Mrs. Brasington.

The most prominent traits in her character were constant and unusual 
cheerfulness, a tender love for children, and an overflowing sympathy for the 
orphan, the suffering, the poor, the oppressed and the bereaved.

If others were sad or gloomy, her words and presence brought brighter scenes to 
view, and caused faint hearts to look up to the sunlight as flowers do after 
the rain.

Many acts of her loving kindness that cannot be recorded here are indelibly 
impressed upon the tablets of as many hearts, and on the days of her death and 
burial more than one of her friends mentioned some instance of what she had 
done to soothe humanity’s woes, and gladden sorrowful hearts.

One said, “She could think of more things to do for others, more things to send 
her neighbors than could almost anyone else, and she could present what others 
would have hesitated to offer in such a way that one could not fail to feel 
that he was receiving a favor.”

The cyclone sufferers had her hearty sympathy, and during the intervals between 
her times of intense suffering, she talked about them and expressed a desire to 
live long enough to help them, even if she could do no more than send a quilt 
to her friends, Misses Dollie and Connie Woodall, and on the day of her death, 
she asked one that knew all about it to tell her about the cyclone.

Her devotion to her children and grandchildren was at all times evident.  Her 
son-in-law with whom she lived was tenderly beloved and she liked to speak of 
his virtues.

Mrs. Brasington was once a resident of Buena Vista for a number of years, and 
was a member of the Baptist church.

There was no prejudice in her heart towards other denominations, and she used 
to laughingly say that she was a “Methodist-Baptist.”

Not being convenient to her own church and pastor, especially did she 
appreciate during her last illness the visits, prayers and religious 
conversations of the Methodist pastor of Philadelphia church.

Two of her children, Mrs. E.L. Canty and Mr. Hugh Brasington, were debarred the 
pleasure of attending her bedside and ministering to her during the last days 
of her life , and the loving faithful daughter with whom she lived, had been 
prostrated upon a sick bed about two weeks, unable to bestow the attention she 
longed to give, and so ill as to cause great anxiety on the part of her family 
and friends about her recovery after her great loss.

Let friends and christians remember the bereaved ones at the throne of grace, 
and may mother, children and friends at last have part in the first 
resurrection when “the former things are passed away, and there shall be no 
more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be anymore pain.”

Her friend,
E.A.W.



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