| MARGUERITE JULE PACETTY BROWN Highlights of her life in: Camden County, Georgia 1882-1906 Miami, Florida 1906-1980 by Marguerite Marreé Mathews FOREWORD The highlights of Marguerite Jule Pacetty Brown is a subjective viewpoint written by her granddaughter, Marguerite Marreé
"Midge" Mathews. I have tried to substantiate a factual time sequence of the highlights of Rita's life in Camden County, Georgia (1882-1906), and in Miami, Florida (1906-1980), through letters, journals, diaries, census schedules, family Bibles, church records, deeds, wills, land grants, books, published papers, unpublished manuscripts, and through personal tributes from friends and relatives. My mother, Frances Brown, my uncle, Frank Brown
Jr., my aunts, Ann K. Brown and Fé Brown Durand did an incredible job of reviewing past events - especially after prying open their memory banks - and came forth with many stories of great interest. Without their expertise and without the help of Marguerite Godley Reddick, Jack F. Godley, Georgia Foster Fawcett, Louise D. DuBose, Fred Frohock, Margaret Readdick Ryan, Emmie Frohock Readdick, Dave Richardson, Nell Noyes, Daisy Gaunt Brown, Carrie Gaunt Griffin, James B. Russell, Mary
Katherine Brown Eldridge, Kathy Carmichael Adams, Bea Brown White, and especially, Alice Collar Tonge who started it all, this endeavor could not have been accomplished. The first version of my story about Marguerite "Rita" Pacetty Brown was written in 1984. Since that time, I have had access to much more material pertinent to the context and history of her life in both Camden County, Georgia and in Miami, Florida. I felt that an updated rendition in 1993 would
better reflect the changes brought to light through these additional records. At the end of this history, I have included: Photo copies of Rita Pacetty/Pacetti when she was young, Rita Pacetty standing in front of her one-room schoolhouse, marriage photo of Rita Pacetty & Frank Brown (all photos in Bryan-Lang Historical Library, Woodbine, GA); pen & ink sketch of the Marion Floyd Pacetti House in Camden County, GA drawn by Robert T. Mathews ~ Rob Logic ~ of
Raleigh, NC (sketch is posted on Camden County, GA Web site of Tara Fields at www.camdencounty.org ); poems Rita recited; several pages of lineage connections. Marguerite Marreé "Midge" Mathews
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