Oglethorpe County GaArchives Obituaries.....Brittain, Henry L. April 7, 1867
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South West Baptist: Atlanta, Ga., June 6, 1867
Source:  South West Baptist: Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, June 6, 1867

   CAPTAIN HENRY BRITAIN (sic) died in Oglethorpe county, April 7th, 1867, in 
the 76th year of his age.
   He was a native of Virginia, and his parents removed to this county in the 
year 1797.  He joined the Baptist church about the year 1814.  He was a man of 
most excellent character; of sterling integrity; warm, genial, polite, yet 
stern and unyielding as a Roman in the discharge of duty.  His virtues as an 
officer, a citizen, and a Christian gentleman were striking and impressive, 
and at once inspired confidence and made those who came in contact with him 
his friends.    He belonged to a class of men who are passing away--men noted 
for their elevation of feeling--for magnanimity, hospitality, liberality and 
charity, and for all those virtues which constitute a gentleman of the old 
Virginia type.  He was a model citizen.  He served in a rifle company in the 
campaign of 1813, and was elected captain of a company upon his return home.  
About the year 1834 he was elected Clerk of the Court of Ordinary, and 
continued in that office until his election as Ordinary on the first 
establishment of that office.  As Ordinary, he gave satisfaction to his fellow-
citizens until March, 1861, when he was attacked with paralysis, of which as a 
helpless victim he suffered till the day of his death.  With Christian faith 
and patience, he endured this long confinement and helplessness, looking unto 
Him who alone can give hope and consolation in old age and affliction.  His 
faith in the Saviour of sinners continued to the end of life's weary 
pilgrimage.  One such life and death, as a practical experiment of 
Christianity, is worth all the books ever written to prove its divine origin, 
and ought to silence infidelity forever.            Mercer
   Lexington, Ga., May 25, 1867. 


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