1842 -
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Born |
Aug 1842 |
Cartersville, Bartow, Georgia |
Gender |
Female |
Notes |
- Jessie Johnson Brawner had a cancer on his face and throat. This cancer was his cause of death in
1897. This letter was hand written by Mary Ann Quarles Brawner in 1897 to Mrs. Mattie Brawner of
Deleon, Texas.
Dear Daughter and little children,
I will try to rite you a few lines to let you no we air all well at presant hoopeing these few
lines may come swift to hand and find you all well and doing the same. I hope you air all over
your troubles with the sickness you all had som time ago. O Mattie O Mattie. Mr. Brawner is gon
gon for ever never to return again. He just went down down down to nothing but skin and bone he
wass the porest humin I ever swa he could not eat any thing for a long time only drink milk and
soop and he got so he could not drink mush of that. Som times he wood make 3 or 4 tryals be fore
he could swallow and he got so he could not talk so we could understand all he said, but was in
his rite mind to the last he dide the 16 of this month he wass 65 the 15 and dide 20 minutes
after 2 oclock Tusday morning he went out just as easy as could bee with out a frown or strugle
so easy so easy he said he was reddy and willing to go and wanted us to meete him in heven. O
Mattie it is bin so shorte time since James wass taken. It looks like I never can stand it. O my
the lord help me. O Mattie my harte is so fool it seemes like it will burst. I am very proud of
the pictutes you and your mother sent me. O Mattie I will excuse you for not riting while you had
so much sickness. I no all about trying to rite when thair air sickness now if you can reede this
rite to me I am so harte broken I can not rite. Mattie I could not pick up curradg to write any
sooner and as I am so sad I will close for this time by saying rite soon and give me all of the
nuse. O Mattie I liked to forgoten to tell you David has an other Boy at his house and Osker has
one at his house and Sister Amanda has an other at hir house all 3 boys. So no more from M.A.
Brawner with a broken harte to Mattie Brawner.
Mary Ann Brawner
23 February 1897
Calhoun, Georgia Gordon County
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Person ID |
I29595 |
Moon Anderson Family History & Genealogy |
Last Modified |
13 Jun 2017 |
Family |
Jesse Johnson Brawner, b. 15 Feb 1832, Pine Log, Bartow Co., GA , d. 16 Feb 1897, Calhoun, Gordon Co., GA |
Married |
29 Aug 1858 |
Cass County, Georgia |
_CRE |
29 May 2016 |
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Children |
| 1. Thomas J. Brawner, b. 1860, Cass, Georgia, USA |
| 2. David H. Brawner, b. 1863, Bartow County, Georgia , d. 1953, Douglasville, Douglas, Georgia, USA |
| 3. Joseph Johnson Brawner, b. 1 Feb 1865, Bartow County, Georgia , d. 23 Mar 1894 |
| 4. William Marcus Brawner, b. 26 Feb 1866, Bartow, Georgia, USA , d. 23 Mar 1894, De Leon, Comanche, Texas, USA |
| 5. Jesse Oscar Brawner, b. 20 Sep 1868, Cartersville, Bartow, Georgia, USA , d. 17 Mar 1953, Punta Gorda, Charlotte, Florida, USA |
| 6. John Wesley Brawner, b. 10 Mar 1870, Cartersville, Bartow, Georgia , d. 16 Oct 1950, Cleburne, Johnson, Texas, USA |
| 7. Gus F. Brawner, b. 1872, Bartow County, Georgia |
| 8. Mary Catherine Brawner, b. Nov 1873, Bartow County, Georgia |
| 9. James A. Brawner, b. 1874, Bartow, Georgia, USA , d. 1897 |
| 10. George Pickens Brawner, b. 8 Jan 1876, Bartow, Georgia, United States , d. 3 Feb 1963, Wichita Falls, Wichita, Texas, USA |
| 11. Charles Brawner, b. 1877, Bartow County, Georgia |
| 12. Stephen Sagers Brawner, b. 11 Nov 1879, Cartersville, Bartow, Georgia, USA , d. 16 Apr 1941, Wichita Falls, Wichita, Texas, USA |
| 13. Marcelles P. Brawner, b. 10 Nov 1881, Cartersville, Bartow, Georgia , d. 8 Jan 1948, Ft. Worth, Tarrant, Texas, USA |
| 14. Samuel Felton Brawner, b. 22 Dec 1882, Cartersville, Bartow, Georgia, USA , d. 2 Jun 1946, Alto, Banks or Habersham, Georgia, USA |
| 15. Sarah A. Brawner, b. Aug 1885, Bartow, Georgia, USA |
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Last Modified |
14 Oct 2017 |
Family ID |
F10307 |
Group Sheet |
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