BORN: 1850
BORN IN: Australia
DIED: 4/30/1902
AGED: 52
CAUSE OF DEATH: Tuberculosis
DEATH LOCATION: Alameda
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BURIED IN UNION CEMETERY WITH THE SAME LAST NAME:
BURIED NEARBY IN PLOT 136:
- Ahe, Frederick
- Brittan, John Westley
- Brittan, Lizzie
- Cocks, Jane
- Garcia, Anna
- Gomez, Arthur
- Lyon, George
- Lyon, William Harlow
- Monroe, Sarah Ann
- Morales, Antonio
- Morena, Balbino
- Ramirez, Ramona
- Rayner, Edward Morris
- Walker, Claude Tobin
CURRENT EVENTS:- 1850 California became the 31st State
- 1860 The Pony Express
- 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
- 1861 American Civil War
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
- 1866 Ku Klux Klan
- 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
- 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
- 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
- 1876 Baseball's National League
- 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
- 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
- 1901 Teddy Roosevelt elected President
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OBITUARY ---------------MRS. LIZZIE M. BRITTAN
Redwood City Democrat
May 8, 1902
Her husband never returned. A strange disappearance of a well-known local farmer resident.
Mrs. Lizzie M. Brittan, who died in Alameda last Wednesday, was laid to rest in Union Cemetery Sunday ¡n the family burial plot beside her parents and sister and brothers who had gone before her.
Redwood City was the home of her childhood, her girlhood and the scene of her happy marriage thirty years ago — a union in which mystery and mayhap tragedy afterwards played a prominent part. To the day of her death the deceased lady mourned for her absent husband, not knowing whether she was still a wife or widow.
In 1872, Mrs. Brillan, then Lizzie M. Ayres, the daughter of the late Charles Ayres, proprietor of the Tremont House, was wedded to Morgan Louis Brittan, a wealthy farmer, who a few years after the marriage disappeared as suddenly and as completely as though swallowed in the earth, leaving his invalid wife and three small children without means of support.
His unaccountable disappearance created a sensation, which to this day has not been explained. There was talk of foul play and reports came from distant cities that he was seen at different places, but never a word came from him to his wife, who waited and grieved for her long lost husband until her death.
M.L. Brittan was the brother of John Brittan, the father of Colonel Nat Brittan the well known city club man, and William G. Brittan, the San Francisco attorney and also one of the founders of the hardware firm of Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson. When John Brittan died in 1879, he distributed his property among his relatives, leaving to his brother Louis the free use of his valuable ranch property near this city for a period of ten years. The farm mentioned, which was one of the most valuable in the county, was stocked with cattle and horses and complete in every detail from a farmer’s standpoint. This gift was a fortune in itself. Mr. Brittan was then one of the substantial citizens of the county, honored and respected by a large circle of friends. His downfall, which came when fortune seemed most kind to him, may have been caused by his affiliation with the race track. He bred fast horses and followed the circuit with a string of animals. He lost heavily, gambled with cards and last of all, in total abandonment of himself; spent his days and nights in the saloons, neglecting his business entirely. His last night in this city was a debauch and the following day he went to San Francisco, presumably to transact some business, taking a large amount of money with him. This was the last seen of him. Mrs. Brittan then began the battle of life under the most adverse circumstances. She struggled along and succeeded in raising and education her children, two sons and a daughter, who are now grown up. She was a most estimable woman whose death has reawakened the sympathy of those who recall the sad story of her life. Ayers Plot 129 Brittan Plot 136
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