Obituary, Andrew Hart Orr, Georgia, 1912

Subject: Obituary of A. H. Orr 

Contributor (Extract by): D. K. Pritchett 

Database: Georgia Historic Newspapers

Library: Digital Library of Georgia (GA LIbrary LEarning Online: Gallileo) 

Publication: The Dalton Citizen (indexed as North Georgia Citizen (Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia) 

Place of Publication: Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia 

Date of Publication: Thurs., 22 August 1912 

Page: 7 

Column: In Memoriam 

Title: A. H. Orr 

Author/Obituary Writer: Baxter Smith 

Name of Deceased: A. H. Orr 

Age: 65 years 

Residence: Catoosa County, Georgia 

Length of Residence: (inferred) 'thirty years' 

Birth Year: [est. 1847] 

Place of Birth: (not stated) 

Death: Monday, 29 July 1912 (at 12 midnight) 

Place of Death: ('his home') Catoosa County, Georgia 

Cause of Death: Injury, kicked by a horse ('with terrific force full in the abdomen, hurling him backward some twelve or fifteen feet') 

Length of Illness: '48 hours of intense suffering' 

Funeral: Wednesday a.m., [est. 21 Aug. 1912] 

Place of Funeral: Ebenezer Church [Ringgold, Catoosa, Georgia] 

Officiator: Rev. Willie Tallant 

Officiating Assistant: Rev. Bernard Tallant 

Masonic Honors (Lodge Representation): Tunnel Hill, Ringgold, Dalton, and Wood Station 

Date of Interment: Wednesday [est. 21 August 1912] 

Place of Interment: Ebenezer Cemetery, Catoosa County, Georgia 

Occupation: Farmer 

Religious Affiliation: 'staunch Baptist' (inferred member, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Ringgold, Catoosa, Georgia) 

Membership: Lodge, Masonic Hall at Tunnel Hill [Whitfield, Georgia] 

Survived By: 'widow and twelve children--eleven sons and one daughter' (names not specified) 

Notes: The injury occurred  at the home of Mr. Fain, after a lodge meeting at Tunnel Hill. Orr's buggy broke down. Mr. Fain offered to loan a horse and buggy. Orr stopped at Fain's and was harnessing the horse when the horse kicked him. Fain called in Dr. Green, who pronounced the injury a fatal one. Orr's family was called in. On Sunday they moved him to his own home, where he 'died at twelve o'clock Monday night.' 

[Source]: 'A. H. Orr' in 'In Memoriam,' North Georgia Citizen (original banner, The Dalton Citizen ; Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia) 1868-1924, Thurs., 22 August 1912, page 7 (digital image 7), Georgia Historic Newspapers, Digital Library of Georgia (Gallileo). https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn85034046/1912-08-22/ed-1/seq-7/print/image_613x817_from_129,1921_to_2478,5051/ (clipping; full page accessed 10 March 2020). 

Research Note: Identity, Andrew Hart Orr (born 10 October 1846, Murray County, Georgia ; died 29 July 1912, Catoosa County, Georgia). 

Cross-Reference: Find A Grave Memorial 12230824 

Obituary of Vesta Brown (Vestie Brown), Sugar Town, Catoosa, Georgia (1910)

Obituary of Vestie Brown
"Sugar Town" (column) in North Georgia Citizen

Publication: North Georgia Citizen (The Dalton Citizen)
Place of Publication: Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia
Date of Publication: 26 June 1910
Page: 2
Column/Community: “Sugar Town,” in “With County Correspondents”
Title: untitled
Subject: Death of Vestie Brown (of community)

[Extract of Details]:
Name of Deceased: Miss Vestie Brown
Date of Birth: 16 June 1874
Place of Birth: Rocky Face [Whitfield, Georgia]
Date of Death: --- [est. June 1910]
Place of Death: --- [concluded, Sugar Town,* Catoosa, Georgia]
Place of Burial: ---
Cause of Death: Cancer (of 10 years duration)
Parents (Surviving): Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Brown
Other Survivors (Siblings):
Mr. Newton Brown (Dechard, Tenn.)
Will Brown (Sugar Town)
Charlie Brown (Sugar Town*)
Arthur Brown  (Sugar Town*)
Calvin Brown  (Sugar Town*)
Mrs. Edna Edgman (Ridgedale, Tenn.)
Mrs. Tom Edgman (Sugar Town*)
Church Affiliation: Ebenezer Baptist Church, Sugar Town*
Religious Affiliation: Christian, since age 18 [est. 1892]
*Sugar Town is never specified; it says “of this place.”

Citation: Untitled obituary of Vestie Brown in "Sugar Town," [community column], “With County Correspondents,” *North Georgia Citizen* [The Dalton Citizen, Dalton, Georgia], 26 June 1910, pg. 2 (via GALILEO). http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ngnewspapers/id:ngc1910-0194 (accessed 16 January 2017).

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Related Records:

Marriage Of Parents:

E. W. Brown + Margret E. L. Long
24 November 1870
Whitfield, Georgia, United States

Census Listings

U.S. Census, 1880
Catoosa District no. 1109, Catoosa County, Georgia
Page 2, Supervisor's District No. 1, Enumeration Dist. No. 13
Date of Enumeration: 1 and 2 June 1880
Dwelling No. 10, Family No. 11, beginning at Line 11

Elisha W Brown, Self, Male, 43, born South Carolina
Margaret E U Brown, Wife, Female, 30, born Georgia
Neuten M G Brown, Son, Male, 12, born Georgia
Sarah E Brown, Daughter, Female, 8, born Georgia
Vester M V Brown, Daughter, Female, 5, born Georgia
John W Brown, Son, Male, 4, born Georgia
Mary E F Brown, Daughter, Female, 2, born Georgia
Arbella M Brown, Daughter, Female, 6/12, born Nov 1879, Georgia

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M8LX-SYP : 15 July 2016), Vester M V Brown in household of Elisha W Brown, Catoosa, Catoosa, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district ED 13, sheet 229B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0138; FHL microfilm 1,254,138.
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U.S. Census, 1900
Blackstock District, Catoosa County, Georgia
Supervisor's District No. 7, Enumeration Dist. No. 19, Sheet 16 A
Date of Enumeration: 20 June 1900
Dwelling No. 287, Family No. 289, beginning at Line 21

Elisha W Brown, Head, Male, 63, born Feb 1837 inSouth Carolina, 63, Married 30 years.
Lougenia Brown, Wife, Female, born Dec 1848 in Georgia, 51, Married 30 years. Mother of 12 children, 10 living.

Vesta Brown, Daughter, Female, Born June 1874 in Georgia, 25, Single
Orrie Brown, Daughter, Female, Born Dec 1880 in Georgia, 19, Single
Charlie Brown, Son, Male, Born May 1885 in Georgia, 15, Single
Calvin Brown, Son, Male, Born Oct 1893 in Georgia, 7, Single
William Brown, Son, Male, Born May 1877 in Georgia, 23, Single

"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M3FY-SSF : accessed 16 January 2017), Vesta Brown in household of Elisha W Brown, Militia Districts 1095, 1109, Blackstock, Catoosa, Catoosa, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 19, sheet 16A, family 289, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,184.

U.S. Census, 1910
Blackstock Militia District 1095, Catoosa, Georgia
Supervisor's District No. 7, Enumeration District No. 18, Sheet 14 A
Date of Enumeration: 26 April 1910
Dwelling No. 98, Family No. 99, beginning at Line 10

Wm Brown, Head, Male, Born est. 1837 in South Carolina, 73, Married
Eugenia Brown, Wife, Female, Born est. 1851 in Georgia, 59, Married
Vesta Brown, Daughter, Female, Born est. 1871 in Georgia, 39, Single
Charles Brown, Son, Male, Born est. 1886 in Georgia, 24, Single
Arthur Brown, Son, Male, Born est. 1888 in Georgia, 22, Single
Calvin Brown, Son, Male, Born est. 1891 in Georgia, 19, Single

"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLVB-PTD : accessed 16 January 2017), Calvin Brown in household of Wm Brown, Blackstock, Catoosa, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 18, sheet 14A, family 99, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 176; FHL microfilm 1,374,189.