Sunday, July 11, 2021

Forget Me Not: Charles Brumfield, 1870 MS

At first this would seem a very brief obituary for Charles. However, in 1870 MS many people were never mentioned in the newspapers at all.

 

Charles Brumfield


1 January 1796 SSC – 29 July 1870 MS

Son of John Brumfield & Margaret Kelly

Husband of Harriet Knight

Father of 7 children


My 4th Great Uncle




Obituary. Died at his residence in Yazoo county, on 29thJuly 1870 Charles Brumfield, a native of York District, South Carolina, for the last 60 a resident of this State and for the last 40 years of Yazoo county, where he has reared a large and respectable family – a man of the strictest integrity – just and true in all the relations of life.

 

Source: Obituary. (Jackson, MS: The Semi – Weekly Clarion, 19 Aug 1870) 3; digital image, Newspapers.com: accessed March 2021.

1 comment:

  1. Enough said that we know Charles Brumfield was a man well respected.

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