Reported age at time of death was 59 or 60 years, so evidently born about 1817.
"FUNERAL NOTICE. // The friends and acquaintances of Mrs. JNO. R. DAWSON and family, also Mr. J. J. CLAPP, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral of the former from St. Luke M. E. Church THIS (Wednesday) EVENING at 4 o'clock. /// DEATH OF MRS. JOHN R. DAWSON // This Christian lady breathed her last yesterday morning at the residence of her son, J. T. [sic] DAWSON, in Union Springs, Ala. The disease was consumption [= tuberculosis]. Her age was fifty-nine years. She leaves three children--two sons (Henry and J[ohn] F[ontaine]) and a daughter, Mrs. W. C. GRAY, Jr. Her maiden name was Miss Amoret TOWNS, daughter of David TOWNS. Her husband was of the well known firm of Hill & Dawson. Long a resident of Columbus, her home in Wynnton was the centre of genial hospitality and social enjoyment in the halcyon days [for the aristocracy] of the South under the old regime. . . Then death invaded the circle. Husband, sons and daughters disappeared one by one, and the troubles of the war and subsequent loss of property visited there as hosts of other Southern households. . .A few years since she left for Union Springs, where in the home of loved ones she quietly lived out the fast passing years. . .The remains will arrive on the 3:20 P. M. accommodation Mobile & Girard train, to-day, and will be buried in the Columbus cemetery [for "White" persons]." [Columbus (GA) Enquirer-Sun newspaper, Wednesday, 28 FEB 1877, p. 4.]
Mary Jane Galer's list of persons interred in the New Cemetery area of Linwood shows: Mrs. Jane A. DAWSON died aged 60 years of T.B. [= tuberculosis]; buried 28 FEB 1877 in Section 1 [lot number not reported] - Sexton Abraham ODOM. [Note that her apparent husband, John Rogers DAWSON, is reported to be interred in the Old Cemetery section.]
This grave is probably not identifiably marked.
"FUNERAL NOTICE. // The friends and acquaintances of Mrs. JNO. R. DAWSON and family, also Mr. J. J. CLAPP, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral of the former from St. Luke M. E. Church THIS (Wednesday) EVENING at 4 o'clock. /// DEATH OF MRS. JOHN R. DAWSON // This Christian lady breathed her last yesterday morning at the residence of her son, J. T. [sic] DAWSON, in Union Springs, Ala. The disease was consumption [= tuberculosis]. Her age was fifty-nine years. She leaves three children--two sons (Henry and J[ohn] F[ontaine]) and a daughter, Mrs. W. C. GRAY, Jr. Her maiden name was Miss Amoret TOWNS, daughter of David TOWNS. Her husband was of the well known firm of Hill & Dawson. Long a resident of Columbus, her home in Wynnton was the centre of genial hospitality and social enjoyment in the halcyon days [for the aristocracy] of the South under the old regime. . . Then death invaded the circle. Husband, sons and daughters disappeared one by one, and the troubles of the war and subsequent loss of property visited there as hosts of other Southern households. . .A few years since she left for Union Springs, where in the home of loved ones she quietly lived out the fast passing years. . .The remains will arrive on the 3:20 P. M. accommodation Mobile & Girard train, to-day, and will be buried in the Columbus cemetery [for "White" persons]." [Columbus (GA) Enquirer-Sun newspaper, Wednesday, 28 FEB 1877, p. 4.]
Mary Jane Galer's list of persons interred in the New Cemetery area of Linwood shows: Mrs. Jane A. DAWSON died aged 60 years of T.B. [= tuberculosis]; buried 28 FEB 1877 in Section 1 [lot number not reported] - Sexton Abraham ODOM. [Note that her apparent husband, John Rogers DAWSON, is reported to be interred in the Old Cemetery section.]
This grave is probably not identifiably marked.
Reported age at time of death was 59 or 60 years, so evidently born about 1817.
"FUNERAL NOTICE. // The friends and acquaintances of Mrs. JNO. R. DAWSON and family, also Mr. J. J. CLAPP, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral of the former from St. Luke M. E. Church THIS (Wednesday) EVENING at 4 o'clock. /// DEATH OF MRS. JOHN R. DAWSON // This Christian lady breathed her last yesterday morning at the residence of her son, J. T. [sic] DAWSON, in Union Springs, Ala. The disease was consumption [= tuberculosis]. Her age was fifty-nine years. She leaves three children--two sons (Henry and J[ohn] F[ontaine]) and a daughter, Mrs. W. C. GRAY, Jr. Her maiden name was Miss Amoret TOWNS, daughter of David TOWNS. Her husband was of the well known firm of Hill & Dawson. Long a resident of Columbus, her home in Wynnton was the centre of genial hospitality and social enjoyment in the halcyon days [for the aristocracy] of the South under the old regime. . . Then death invaded the circle. Husband, sons and daughters disappeared one by one, and the troubles of the war and subsequent loss of property visited there as hosts of other Southern households. . .A few years since she left for Union Springs, where in the home of loved ones she quietly lived out the fast passing years. . .The remains will arrive on the 3:20 P. M. accommodation Mobile & Girard train, to-day, and will be buried in the Columbus cemetery [for "White" persons]." [Columbus (GA) Enquirer-Sun newspaper, Wednesday, 28 FEB 1877, p. 4.]
Mary Jane Galer's list of persons interred in the New Cemetery area of Linwood shows: Mrs. Jane A. DAWSON died aged 60 years of T.B. [= tuberculosis]; buried 28 FEB 1877 in Section 1 [lot number not reported] - Sexton Abraham ODOM. [Note that her apparent husband, John Rogers DAWSON, is reported to be interred in the Old Cemetery section.]
This grave is probably not identifiably marked.
"FUNERAL NOTICE. // The friends and acquaintances of Mrs. JNO. R. DAWSON and family, also Mr. J. J. CLAPP, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral of the former from St. Luke M. E. Church THIS (Wednesday) EVENING at 4 o'clock. /// DEATH OF MRS. JOHN R. DAWSON // This Christian lady breathed her last yesterday morning at the residence of her son, J. T. [sic] DAWSON, in Union Springs, Ala. The disease was consumption [= tuberculosis]. Her age was fifty-nine years. She leaves three children--two sons (Henry and J[ohn] F[ontaine]) and a daughter, Mrs. W. C. GRAY, Jr. Her maiden name was Miss Amoret TOWNS, daughter of David TOWNS. Her husband was of the well known firm of Hill & Dawson. Long a resident of Columbus, her home in Wynnton was the centre of genial hospitality and social enjoyment in the halcyon days [for the aristocracy] of the South under the old regime. . . Then death invaded the circle. Husband, sons and daughters disappeared one by one, and the troubles of the war and subsequent loss of property visited there as hosts of other Southern households. . .A few years since she left for Union Springs, where in the home of loved ones she quietly lived out the fast passing years. . .The remains will arrive on the 3:20 P. M. accommodation Mobile & Girard train, to-day, and will be buried in the Columbus cemetery [for "White" persons]." [Columbus (GA) Enquirer-Sun newspaper, Wednesday, 28 FEB 1877, p. 4.]
Mary Jane Galer's list of persons interred in the New Cemetery area of Linwood shows: Mrs. Jane A. DAWSON died aged 60 years of T.B. [= tuberculosis]; buried 28 FEB 1877 in Section 1 [lot number not reported] - Sexton Abraham ODOM. [Note that her apparent husband, John Rogers DAWSON, is reported to be interred in the Old Cemetery section.]
This grave is probably not identifiably marked.
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