MARION M. JUSTICE<\/b><\/p>\n
Marion M. Justice lived to be 101.
\nHe was born June 26, 1850 and died April 11, 1951.
\nHe was married to Telithia Caroline Brummitt on Nov. 20, 1871.
\nHis parents were Squire Justice and Serah Russell.\u00a0 Marion and Caroline are buried in the Estes Cemetery \u00a0in Coalfield.<\/p>\n
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Obituary for M.M. Justice<\/p>\n
M.M. Justice of Coalfield died April 11,, 1951 at the age of 100 years, nine months and fifteen days. He was probably the oldest man in East Tennessee.\u00a0 He was the son of Esquire Justice and Sally Russell Justice. He was married to Telethia Caroline Brummitt in the year 1871 and was the father of the following children: Mrs. Florence Cheek of Harriman, Mrs. Serelda Sisson of Oliver Springs, Judge J.H. Justice of Wartburg; Mrs. Arpie Jackson of Coalfield and three children who died in infancy.Mr. Justice joined the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in early life. He was a great admirer of Abraham Lincoln and went to the election with his father when Lincoln ran doe president. He worked on the public roads of Morgan County from the time he was 18 years of age until he was 50 years old, this being a legal requirement at that time. Mr. Justice was strictly sober and had a supreme hatred for strong drinks.\u00a0 He was loyal to his family and friends and especially to his God.\u00a0 He believed in law and order and stood strictly by his convictions until the day of his departure. He probably had more knowledge of the early history of Morgan and Anderson Counties than any man living in recent years.\u00a0 He could readily tell you the boundaries of the original tracts of land in this county.\u00a0 Mr. Justice was a pioneer of the old school and was always ready to give admonition and advice to the rising generation, especially if he thought they were taking the wrong course. He was known for his knowledge of the Bible and made it a life-long study. He was a great believer in honesty and truthfulness and tried in every way and truthfulness and tried in every way possible to impress upon his family and friends the great worth of practicing such virtues. Mr Justice spent his entire life in Morgan County.Funeral services were held at the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church on April 13th at 11:00 A.M. with Rev. David McGlothin and Rev. Williams officiating and was laid to rest in the Estes Cemetery. Sharp’s of Oliver Springs in charge.\u00a0 [Morgan County News, 4-19-1951]<\/p>\n
–-Obituary for Telitha Caroline Brummitt Justice<\/strong><\/p>\n Mrs. Justice was born May 18, 1846, in Anderson County, Tennessee near the little station known as Marlow, in that county; her maiden name was Telitha Caroline Brummitt.\u00a0 Her father’s names was James Brummitt and her mother’s name was Serelda Brown Brummitt. MARION M. JUSTICE Marion M. Justice lived to be 101. He was born June 26, 1850 and died April 11, 1951. He was married to Telithia Caroline Brummitt on Nov. 20, 1871. His parents were Squire Justice and Serah Russell.\u00a0 Marion and Caroline are buried in the Estes Cemetery \u00a0in Coalfield. ————– Obituary for M.M.… Continue reading Justice, Marion M.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[865],"tags":[72,194,20,197,195,184,196,192,193],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centenarians","tag-brown","tag-cheek","tag-davis","tag-freybarger","tag-jackson","tag-justice","tag-mcglothin","tag-russell","tag-sisson","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3930,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/3930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMrs. Justice leaves to mourn her loss her husband, M.M. Justice, who is in his 79th\u00a0 year, and the following children:\u00a0 Mrs. Florence Cheek of\u00a0 Coal Hill, Mrs. R.A. Sisson of Oliver Springs, Mrs. Arpie Jackson of Coalfield, Judge S.H. Justice of Wartburg, and Horace Justice of Coalfield and three infant children who died in early life, making eight children born to this union.\u00a0 She is also survived by sixteen grand-children and twenty great-grandchildren, and one brother, the Rev. W.R. Brummitt of Oliver Springs; and one sister, Mrs. Mary A. Freybarger, living at Hamilton, Ohio.\u00a0 Mrs. Justice was 13 years of age when the war between the North and the South was declared, and many times during her life, while in a reminiscent mood, she would tell of the many struggles and trials that she had undergone during that war.\u00a0 In Feb. 1862, her father was shot and killed through a crack in the door during the early part of the night, after a hard days work clearing a new ground, while he had one of his younger children in his arms.\u00a0 At the report of the gun the father of Mrs. Justice dropped the child from his arms and fell with his hands in the fire.\u00a0 There being no one in the house at this time, except the father of Mrs. Justice, her mother, who was very ill and confined to her bed; the little child and Mrs. Justice, who was then only 13 years of age.\u00a0 After the fatal shot had been fired, Mrs. Justice locked her arms under the arms of her dead father, pulling him out of the fire and straightening out his lifeless body on the floor.\u00a0 At this time the mother of Mrs. Justice thought in all probability that their house was surrounded by enemies, so she ordered that the light be extinguished and the fire covered up until an investigation could be made and the neighbors notified.\u00a0 In this condition, Mrs. Justice with her sick mother in bed kept a vigilant watch through the night while her father lay a lifeless corps on the floor before them.
\nDuring the year 1862, while the war between the states was still raging, Mrs. Justice’s older brother Wiley Brummitt, had enlisted in the Union Army and was stationed at Fishing Creek, Ky., and while there got a permit or furlough to visit his wife, mother and sisters in Anderson County, Tenn.\u00a0 He came home and stayed a few days and while returning back to his regiment across the mountain and down New River, he was encountered by a bunch of guerillas, whose purpose was to loot, steal and kill and the ran Mr. Brummitt into the river and shot him in the face; then it was that Mrs. Justice, though a girl in her early teens, was again called to a trying ordeal.\u00a0 She walked from Anderson County by way of Blowing Springs, where Windrock mines are now situated, but arrived after her brother had been buried in the old White Grave Yard in the 10th district of Anderson County on New River.\u00a0 She met her duties boldly, and got her brother’s haver sack, as she always called it, his shot pouch and army rifle, after which she wended her way back across the mountain to her old home near Marlow.
\nShe had a brother names Gilbert Brummitt, who died at Somerset, Ky., while serving in the Union Army.\u00a0 She had another brother names Moses Brummitt, who also was a soldier in the Union Army, who was captured by the Confederate soldiers and imprisoned on Belle Isle, who died there during that great struggle.\u00a0 W.R. Brummitt who is now living at Oliver Springs, served in the Union Army, 3 years, 7 months and 17 days, and was honorable discharged.\u00a0 He is now in this 85th year.\u00a0 Mrs. Justice had a sister by the name of Martha Brummitt, who married one Daniel Jones of Morgan County; this sister died in Roane County many years ago.\u00a0 She had two younger brothers, namely, James and Rufus, who were not old enough to enlist in the army, both have been dead several years.
\nMrs. Justice was a member of the Baptist Church for near 60 years; she was a strong believer in the Baptist faith, but first of all she believed in God.\u00a0 She loved her family and her friends and was ever ready to speak a good word to those in trouble.\u00a0 She was married to M.M. Justice, Nov. 26, 1871 by Squire Thos. Davis, who was one of the old pioneers of this county.
\nMrs. Justice used to tell of the many hardships and privations that she and the other members of her family were subjected to during the Civil War, and on one occasion, she told of her mother owning a find young mare, and while the Confederate soldiers were passing through the country, she bridled and led this young mare away from the main road out into the forest and kept her there all night for fear she would be taken away from them.\u00a0 She said that this young mare could hear the other horses passing the road and would attempt to squeal or nicker to them, as she called it, and at each time she would take her bonnet and wrap it around the mare’s mouth and nostrils to keep the soldiers who were passing the road from hearing the squeal of the animal.
\nMrs Justice had many friends and no enemies in so far as we know, and will be long remembered and never forgotten.[Morgan County News, December 13, 1928]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"