SECOND GENERATION

4. Mary Sophia Brown ⁽²⁾ was born on 31 May 1849 in Oak Bowery, Chambers Co., Alabama.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ She died in 1930.⁽¹⁾ She was also known as Mollie or Molly.⁽²⁾ After the death of her husband, Mollie stayed in Atlanta and raised her children. After the children had married and left home, she broke up housekeeping and went to live in Birmingham, Alabama with her sons, Edgar and Cecil. During the spring and summer months, she came back to Atlanta and stayed a while with each of her other two sons, Brown and Fred.

She was married to John Sam Logan on 16 Apr 1868 in Opelika, Lee Co., Alabama.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ The Logans were staunch Methodists. John Sam Logan⁽²⁾ was born on 18 May 1847 in Russell County, Alabama.⁽²⁾ He died on 30 Apr 1887 in Atlanta, Georgia.⁽²⁾ He left Mollie a widow at 37 with seven children ranging in age from 1 to 18. He was buried in Opelika, Lee Co., Alabama.⁽²⁾ John Sam Logan's obituary in the Atlanta Constitution on Saturday 30 April 1887 read as follows:

"Mr. John Sam Logan, who had charge of the printing department of the railway mail service in the United States courthouse, died this morning a little after midnight. He had been suffering from dysentery for the past ten days. The remains will be carried to Opelika, Alabama today for interment. Mr. Logan was a member of Damon Lodge Number 14, Knights of Pythias of Opelika."

John Sam Logan and Oliver S. Burnett began the publication of The LaFayette Clipper in 1873. Both gentlemen were practical printers who understood the printing art, hence the Clipper was an unusually well printed paper and skillfully edited. The Clipper was succeeded by the LaFayette Sun in October 1880 and it continues today.

John Sam Logan was a railway mail route messenger between Opelika and Buffalo, Alabama, and was later in charge of the printing office of the railway mail service in Atlanta, Georgia. Mary Sophia Brown and John Sam Logan had the following children:

+10 i. William Otis Logan.
+11 ii. Orrin Brown Logan.
+12 iii. Edgar Fletcher Logan.
+13 iv. Ruth Virginia Logan.
14 v. John Sam Logan Jr.⁽²⁾ was born on 27 Dec 1879 in Opelika, Lee Co., Alabama.⁽²⁾ He died on 26 Sep 1900.⁽²⁾ He never married.
+15 vi. Cecil James Logan.
+16 vii. Frederick Jesse Logan Sr..

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