Elizabeth “Lizzie” Brittan

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Elizabeth “Lizzie” Brittan

Date of Birth: 23 Nov 1849

Born In: Australia

Age: 52

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Marital Status: Widow? Husband disappeard in 1872

Died: 30 Apr 1902

Cause of Death: Tuberculosis

Death Location: Alameda

Burial Plot: 136

FindaGrave ID: 5815471

Obituary

Mrs. Lizzie M Brittan, who died in Alameda last Wednesday, was laid to rest in Union Cemetery Sunday in the family burial plot beside her parents and sister and brothers who had gone before her. Redwood City was her home of her childhool, 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. Brittan, then Lizzie Ayres, the daughter of the late Charles Ayres, proprietor of the Tremont House, was wedded to Morgan Louis Brittan, a wealther farmer, who a few years after the marriage disappeared as suddenly and as completly as though swallowed in the earth, leaving an 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. She struggled along and succeded in rasing and educating 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.

Redwood City Democrat - May 9, 1902

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