BROWN COUNTY TEXAS – OBITUARY: PHILLIP WASHINGTON AUSTIN

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Phillip Washington Austin

Phillip Washington Austin pioneer resident of Brownwood and Brown Co. died at 
the family residence, 200 Main Ave. at 1:15 Sunday, May 27th. following a ling 
illness. At time of death he was 82 years, 10 months, and 9 days of age, his 
83rd. birthday falling on the 18th. of the coming July.

Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 4:30 from the Harwell Funeral 
Home, and will be conducted by Rev. J. W. Johnson, for many years a personal 
friend of deceased. Interment will be at Atkins, Arkansas, on Wednesday 
afternoon, May 30th. The remains are to be shipped over the Frisco midnight 
train tonight accompanied by his sons, J. M. Austin and W.Y. Austin. Atkins was 
the old home of deceased.

Phillip Washington Austin was born in Loraine co. Tennessee on July 18th. 1845, 
the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Young Austin, highly respected pioneer family of 
that section. At the age of 2 years he moved with the family to Pope co. 
Arkansas, where he resided until he volunteered in the United States Army for 
service in the Civil War, on September 10th, 1863: serving until honorable 
discharged on August 18, 1865.

After his discharge he returned to Pope Co. where he was married to Miss Mary C. 
Rhyne. They resided there for several years,Mrs. Austin dying in 1900, and Mr. 
Austin with the family moved to Texas in 1903.

He first settled near Blanket, in Brown co. engaging in farming in that and 
other Brown co. communities until he moved to Brownwood in 1911, where he 
resided sontinuously until the time of his death.

To Mr. and Mrs. Austin were born three sons and seven daughters, the sons and 
five of the daughters surviving his. Two daughters, Mdmes. Talle and Loanna 
Robinson, died several years ago. Children surviving are, three sons, Marvin 
Holder, Brown co. Texas, W.? Austin, 200 Main Ave. Brownwood, Texas, J. M. 
Austin, Coggin Ave, Brownwood, and five daughters, Mesdames J. R. Whitesides, 
Rochester, Texas, R. P. Smith, Russellville, Ark. D. M. Hayes, Atkins Ark. W. M. 
Dykes, King, Texas, T. W. Earnest, 707 Ave. G Brownwood Texas.

Mr. Austin was a Christian gentelman, a member of the Methodist Church for many 
years. He led an active and useful life, until a few years ago when his health 
began failing and since that time he had been growing more feeble until the time 
of his last illness and death.

Back in his old home section he has many friends who mourn his death, and during 
his residence in Brownwood and Brown Co. he has made many close friends by his 
unfailing kindness and gentleness of spirit, and to these friends the death 
comes as a very real grief and loss, and these many friends and acquaintances 
join the bereaving relatives in sincerely mourning the passing of this good man.