DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Judge James Trimble Brown ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Margaret Nolen Nichol MNNICHOL@aol.com ==================================================================== Tribute of Respect At a regular meeting of Charity Lodge No. 31, A.O.U.W., held on June 14, 1878, the committee appointed for the purpose submitted the following report: The undersigned, a committee appointed to draft resolutions of respect for our late Brother James Trimble Brown, beg leave to submit the following: On Thursday night, the 30th of May, 1878, at 12:30 o’clock, the spirit of James Trimble Brown, one of the brightest members of the Lodge, was called by an Omnipotent Gad to leave its tenement of clay and assume its position in the regions beyond the shores of time. He left behind him a loving wife and three little children, numerous relatives and host of friends, to mourn his loss. His death was sudden and wholly unexpected. In the bright promise of young manhood, full of all the constituent elements of a high-toned, chivalrous gentleman, a fine lawyer with a brilliant prospect before him, of sound judgment, of high intellect, pure morals and unsullied honor, full of hope, of energy, of laudable ambition, he has passed away. Death never struck down a nobler spirit; the Bar never lost a worthier nor more honorable member, nor our Order one better qualified to add to its lustre or to increase its usefulness. Therefore be it be, Resolved, 1st, that we recognize in the death of James Trimble Brown the uncertainty of life, and that it is allotted to all men to die, and that in this instance the ways of all-wise God are inscrutable and his purposes beyond the comprehension of man, 2. That in this afficting dispensation of divine Providence our hearts have been saddened and all out sympathies awakened, for we deeply feel the sad bereavement 3. That our most sincere respect and kindest sympathies is tendered the bereaved widow and orphans, with the hope that the desolate hearts may receive consolation at the hands of an every merciful God, 4. That a copy of these resolutions be presented the family of the deceased, that they be published in the city papers, and duly recorded upon the minutes of the Lodge. Signed: C. H. Goodlett, James T. Gooch, B. F. Binkley, Committee Submitted by Margaret Nolen Nichol (Judge James Trimble Brown died May 31, 1878. He was the son of Neill Smith Brown and his wife, Mary Ann Alexander Trimble, and the husband of Jane Foster Nichol Brown. Their children were: William Lytle Nichol Brown; Marion Brown, died at age 2; Elizabeth (Myssie) Brown, married Hon Archibald John Majoribanks of London England; and James Trimble Brown, Jr). (Original Tribute clipping is in the files of the submitted)