Briton-John -TN

This is my working hypothesis - the way I see it as of this moment!!
the following information supplied by Janet Briton is posted here at her request.

John Brittain & wife Martha Smith

John Brittain was born 15 May 1791 Bertie[Pitt] Co, NC the son of John Brittain Jr and Mary Sessoms.
John Brittain married 9 July 1818 Martha Morton Smith
John Brittain died 19 July 1859 in Rutherford, TN
"19 July 1859 --Obituary--Departed this life on this day inst. about eight o'clock in the morning, Mr. John Brittain, aged about 68 years. He has been a citizen of Rutherford county some thirty-five or forty years, nearly the whole of that time an exemplary member of the Christian Church. . . ."

Martha Morton Smith was born 13 Feb 1802 and died 15 June 1882.
"In Memoriam - Died at her home near Rock Spring in Rutherford county, Tenn., June 15th 1882, Mrs. M. M. Brittain at the age of 80 years and 4 months. She was born Feb 13th 1802. Married to John Brittain July 9th 1818, became a disciple of Christ and was baptized 1 June 1832 by Peyton Smith while he was preaching with the disciples. She was a cousin of Elder Peyton Smith. She gave birth to eleven children, eight of whom lived to maturity".. . ."Sister Brittain was a woman of large frame, good constitution, commanding personal appearance, fine common sense and great decision and force of character; but with these modest and retiring in her manners and thoroughly womanly in all her instincts and tastes".....
In an article written on her 80th birthday celebration it is noted that" for several years she has not now been able to get up and about having been crippled by a fall, from the effects of which she can never recover."

Children of John Brittain and Martha Morton Smith:
1. Mary Ann Brittain 1819 - 10 May 1820 TN

2. John Smith Brittain 7 Feb 1822 - 1 Oct 1881 MS

3. James Smith Brittain 16 Sept 1824 - 28 Nov 1889 TN
married 2 June 1864 Mary Ann Jenkins 1838 -1918 TN

James Smith Brittain

4. William Washington Brittain 13 June 1827 - 29 July 1911
married 26 Oct 1854 Sarah Harriet N Blair 14 Jan 1839 - 28 July 1864
married 13 Dec 1871 Elizabeth Ferrell Lyons 1 Jan1844 -1887

WW and Elizabeth Lyons Brittain

5. Martha Ann Brittain 8 May 1829 - 25 June 1912 TN
married 1851 George Washington Kidd

Martha Ann Brittain Kidd

6. Pleasant Henry Brittain 23 Aug 1832 TN - 31 Aug 1902 AR
               Co. F, 31 Arkansas Infantry, Confederate, Captain
       married 14 Mar 1854 Sarah Ann Neal 20 Dec 1833 TN - 1 Mar 1895 AR
                       daughter of Ralph Neal and Sally Hartman
             Burial: Colony Cemetery near Morganton, Van Buren Co., Ark
"Mrs. Sarah A. Brittain ( nee Neal) was born in Rutherford County Tennessee, December 20, 1833, and died near Morganton, Van Buren County, Arkansas, at 7:30 O'clock on the evening of March 1, 1895. Was married to P. H. Brittain March 14, 1854. Came to Arkansas with her husband in 1859 and returned to Tennessee in 1870 on account of her health. Again came to Arkansas in 1885 where she has since lived. . .in 1854 and joined the Christian Church. She was mother of nine children six of whom still live. . .For the last few years she has been almost an invalid; she having that dreaded disease, catarrh of the lungs. For the last few weeks she was almost helpless. . .She leaves an aged husband, one daughter, five Sons."

Pleasant Henry Brittain and Sarah his wife and daughter Susan Brittain

7. Columbus Lafayette Brittain 12 July 1834 - 7 Sept 1903 TN
married 1869 Mary L Brothers 1847 - 1871

Columbus Brittain his home and his head stone

married 21 Oct 1873 Frances Matilda Batey 5 Dec 1842 - 2 Jan 1926

Frances and Columbus Brittain

8. Peyton Smith Brittain 29 Sept 1837 - 16 Mar 1899
       on 1st Oct 1860 received patent for 280 acres in Randolph Co Arkansas
     married 11 Oct 1859 Lucy Frances Laurence 1836 - 17 Oct 1879 Smyrna
      a. Martha Alice Brittain 20 Aug 1860 -
      b. Peyton A Brittain 22 Jan 1861 -
      c. John Columbus Brittain 22 Feb 1864 -
      d. Frances Adella Brittain 8 Sep 1866 AR -
      e. Mary Anna Brittain 27 Feb 1868 -
     married 22 Feb 1882 Elizabeth [Bettie] Jane Harris 9 Oct 1856 - 10 Jan 1942
      a. Lonnie Brittain 4 Feb 1882 -
      b. Ollie Brittain Nov 1886 -
      c. Hattie Bell Brittain 11 Nov 1890 -
           married Harvey Watkins Cook
            i. Elsie Frances Cook 1918 Rutherford TN
               married Freeland Patterson Maxwell

9. Andrew Jackson Brittain 1 Oct 1840 - 7 April 1864

10, 11. twins 1842

researching these Brittons:
Paul Murauskas, Janet Briton, Dorothy Jackson as well as myself

21 Jun 2008

this is my working hypothesis - the way I see it as of this moment!!

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