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Macon Weekly Telegraph
~excerpt~TRIBUTE OF RESPECT, SINCERITY LODGE NO. 161, F. A. M, January 12, 1878
Brother Henry Christian was born in Chatham county, North Carolina, July 4, 1814, and died in Jones county, Georgia, on his plantation, near Clinton, where he lived, of a severe and protracted attack of pneumonia, on the 11th of December, in the 64th year of his age.
His youngest brother, Wm. R. Christian, died a few weeks previous in the same house of the same disease; and it is a remarkable coincidence that of the numerous family, all, except two living brothers, have died of pneumonia.
Brother Christian, in many respects, was a remarkable man. He came to Jones county, Georgia, in 1835, a stranger and penniless, yet by energy and industry he acquired a large property, raised a large family and educated them liberally. Born and raised poor himself, he never received the advantage of an education-having gone to school only a single day-still he learned to read, write and calculate well, and filled two important offices in Jones county, sheriff and tax collector, with great credit to himself and satisfaction to his friends and the public.
.....O. P. Finney, R. T. Ross, W. P. Grover, D. M. Committee.
July 5, 1887
Macon Daily Telegraph
Clinton, July 4 - The death of Mrs. Nancy Christian will be painful news to the citizens of Jones county. She died at her home in Clinton on Saturday morning after a painful illness of several months, and was buried at the same place on Sunday morning. She was upwards of eighty years old, and leaves a large family of children and grandchildren, who have the deep sympathy of many friends. [She died Saturday, 2 July 1887, using a perpetual calendar.]
The Georgia death certificate of their son Hardy Christian (31 Aug 1838 - 15 Sep 1926) list his parents as Henry Christian and Nancy Womack.
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