DAVIDSON COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Judge James Trimble Brown
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			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)