Walton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Brand, Isaiah January 1889
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Rockdale Banner, January 29, 1889
Isaiah Brand is Dead.
     At the family burial ground of the Brand family, near Loganville, Ga., 
last Monday, was laid away the last remains of the oldest member of their long-
lived family, Isaiah C. Brand. He was born October 3, 1809, in Oglethorpe 
County, this state. His father, William Brand, moved to Walton County, the 
place where the deceased died, in 1826, and died at the old homestead where his 
son Isaiah also died, never moving there from since 1826.
     He had born unto him eleven children, one, J. T. at Lithonia; N. V., at 
Lawrenceville; and E. W. and B. T. Brand at Loganville. the daughters are 
living in different states. At the time of his death he had eighty-three 
grandchildren, making a family of 113. His father had 22 children and their 
descendants are centered from ocean to ocean. One of the brothers of the 
deceased, Cashuel Brand, died with 190 children, grand and great-grand and 
another, Jonas Brand, about 250.
     The grandfather of the deceased settled in Virginia and one of his sons 
was for a long time editor of the Richmond Whig, but the deceased was always a 
true and tried democrat. He occupied an humble sphere in this life, but he was 
a man of strong native intellect and took great interest in all the political 
fights and revolutions of his day, and was a leader of men in his own immediate 
bailiwick.  He was a justice of the peace for many years, and he administered 
law, not as it was read to him from books, if it did not coincide with his 
ideas of justice. He disregarded technicalities to do unto others as they would 
have others do unto them. He was a generous-hearted man, tender as a woman, but 
fearless as a lion. His death removed from earth the last direct offspring of 
one of the most numerous families and oldest settlers of either Gwinnett or 
Walton Counties.


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