83 years old
Husband of Mary Elizabeth Lee Brodnax
Listed in Known Burials of Morehouse Parish, a publication of The Family History Club
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Mr. Brodnax's last child, daughter, Mary Elizabeth Brodnax Parsons (#2418498) who died at the age of 101, wrote a memoir of her life. It was published in the Bastrop Daily Enterprise (Bastrop, Louisiana) Thursday - 25 March 1971 pp 1 & 6
Her father, John Henry Mitchel Brodnax, left Georgia and traveled westward. He lived in Alabama for a while, then went on to Mississippik where he married her mother, Mary Elizabeth Lee in 1854. Miss Elizabeth Lee was a close relative of Robert E. Lee. Soon after Mary Elizabeth Brodnax Parsons, was born, the family moved to a farm eight miles from Bastrop on Bayou Bartholomew. "Life on the farm was rugged. My father had never owned slaves, so my brothers did the farm work after the war. My father, who was 55 when I was born, supervised the farm work, helped my mother plant the garden and care for the pigs and chickens.
83 years old
Husband of Mary Elizabeth Lee Brodnax
Listed in Known Burials of Morehouse Parish, a publication of The Family History Club
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Mr. Brodnax's last child, daughter, Mary Elizabeth Brodnax Parsons (#2418498) who died at the age of 101, wrote a memoir of her life. It was published in the Bastrop Daily Enterprise (Bastrop, Louisiana) Thursday - 25 March 1971 pp 1 & 6
Her father, John Henry Mitchel Brodnax, left Georgia and traveled westward. He lived in Alabama for a while, then went on to Mississippik where he married her mother, Mary Elizabeth Lee in 1854. Miss Elizabeth Lee was a close relative of Robert E. Lee. Soon after Mary Elizabeth Brodnax Parsons, was born, the family moved to a farm eight miles from Bastrop on Bayou Bartholomew. "Life on the farm was rugged. My father had never owned slaves, so my brothers did the farm work after the war. My father, who was 55 when I was born, supervised the farm work, helped my mother plant the garden and care for the pigs and chickens.
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